I'm gonna try a different technique this year that's popular amongst our southern friends who fish the Adirondacks. You tie on a 2-2.5" Williams Wobbler that you have removed the treble hook from, then tie on approximately 14-18" fluorocarbon, then a fly of your choice.  For me likely a streamer like an olive/brown zuddler or Mickey Finn variations due to the colors matching the dace that are present in the majority of Algonquins lakes and rivers. But I'm sure any streamer will be perfectly fine, especially this time of year when most trout are aggressive, shallow, and hungry.

Williams makes a spoon exactly for that purpose - Lake clear Wobblers. I have two that I bring every year but have not used yet lol. The technique is also used a lot in Québec.

Moonman.

Greetings!
Here's a quick blurb about 2024 season.

It was an interesting year. Not as many Algonquin trips as previous years but still got there for 3 separate outings.

Lavielle loop from north west arm of Opeongo was the spring trip. Found some nice fish using different methods but overall that trip needed more nights added as I didn't get to do all that I wanted to going into it. Breathtaking scenery and the promise of far more fishing adventures will certainly bring me back to this region.

Little trout lake was the next trip and wasn't until the end of Sept. Fishing was fairly tough, but managed okay and again quite enjoyed exploring that area of the park for a couple of days.

Last was a trip near the end of Oct that produced many bass and some large splake and a more relaxed plan. Really got what I wanted out of this one.

In terms of fishing strategies there was a couple unique things I explored outside of the usual fishing strategies
- trolling streamers
- dressed up single hooks on various spoons

Trolling streamers topic
Done on a 9ft 8wt rod with 6IPS sinking line. This worked okay, I did catch some fish doing this, and certainly had a decent amount of bites. I think there are some drawbacks though to doing this from a canoe. The first is dealing with getting the sinking line out isn't a very convenient task. Not terrible as I would get the line out far enough that I could just loosen the drag and let the line pull itself out. Second is getting a good hookset felt harder compared to a spinning or baitcasting rod. I think moving forward I'm going to move towards trolling flies on the conventional rods and just add a keel sinker to get whatever depth I'm targeting.
I used the wiggle fin action discs. I'm not sure how much the added but I'll continue to explore trolling with these. 

I did attempt to use a flasher spoon, like the lake clear wobbler, but I didn't get to get too far down this road as I ended up losing the flasher after getting hung up. My own fault for how I rigged it, and lesson learned. I will try this again.

Dressed hooks topic
I don't think this added much in the end. I didn't notice more hits on dressed hooks relative to undressed. Another piece I'm going to explore more though.

Next post I want to talk a bit more in depth about what I want to change or modify, and a bit more specifics about streamers/flies I am thinking about bringing and how I want to fish them.

Cheers,
Hobbes

thanks for taking the time to out line your fishing adventures,,,
    i am a trout fisherman ,  every trout is a trophy ,,
      i use  lead core with a 12 foot leader,, and a med action longer  rod. the rod flexes  as i paddle along, 
  my best luck is with white streamers with som blueish  tensile bling ,, 
  on one trip i caught lakers on 8 different spoons ,,  ya never know,,
     ever tried fishing as the thunder heads are rolling in ?  

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