Time to take the time....

[tweedwolfscream]

(01-30-2016 10:45 AM)eppy55 Wrote:  Hello tweedwolfscream, it was the second week of July last year and I was fishing from my canoe in deep water at a slow troll using mostly Williams spoons and changing up once in a while to brightly painted spinners such as Blue Fox and others. It was great, no fish but still, great! When I go back this year I think it be to the Petawawa River. Musky and walleye this time. Thanks for asking, Your friend Trevor Calhoun.

Lake trout tend to be quite deep down in July/August, at least 20-30 feet on most Algonquin lakes. It's hard to get a lure down that deep when trolling from a canoe unless you're using a heavy setup like a bottom bouncer or steel/leadcore line. You can try jigging for them in windless conditions but then you can't really cover ground looking for the structure they like. If you really want to learn about summer lake trout fishing in Algonquin, and about the fish (and their speckled cousins) generally, consider taking Greg Betteridge's workshop put on for Friends of Algonquin Park in the summer. He teaches the leadcore line technique.

You probably know this, but just in case, walleye on the Petawawa are only downstream from Cedar Lake, and muskie are downstream from Lake Travers.