Lac Aplati, Quebec: Fishing Spots and Seasons

• Overview

  Set in Mauricie, Lac Aplati is a Quebec water. The surface lies 410 metres up. At about 30 hectares, a day is enough to walk the shoreline properly. Shoreline comes to about 2.6 km, small enough to learn in a day. For a base, Manawan sits 56 km out. It is 219 km to Saint-Louis-de-Terrebonne, the nearest city. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Lac Aplati

  We hold no survey for this water; read the slope of the shoreline instead. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Mauricie records list northern pike, brook trout and walleye among the fish reported. County records show the wider picture rather than this one place. Fish Lac Aplati to its features, not to its size.

• Seasonal Patterns

  On the long-term average, July reads 17°C and January reads -16°C. Winter runs most of the calendar, and everything worth doing happens in the gap. Count on hard cover from midwinter, and open water from early May. Open water usually runs from early May until about mid November. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. Anyone fishing Lac Aplati regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. Nothing is listed nearby for parking or launching a boat. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Take the rules with you rather than trusting memory. Some water is controlled locally without a sign saying so. Should this one be busy, Lac du Mirador is 1.5 km off. Nothing here settles the position at Lac Aplati for certain.