Fishing Lac Apollo in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec

• Overview

  Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean in Quebec is where Lac Apollo sits. Height above sea level is 696 metres. At about 37 hectares, a day is enough to walk the shoreline properly. The perimeter runs near 5.2 km, so plan the walk before you start. Size puts it in the front rank of our Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean list. Saint-Fulgence sits 54 km from here and is the nearest stop. Saguenay sits 65 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. It sits well inside its county, with no border complications.

• Where to Fish on Lac Apollo

  Depth went unrecorded, which puts the reading back on you. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Public occurrence data for Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean names northern pike, Atlantic salmon, lake whitefish and fallfish. Protected fish appear in the records for this area, so treat the list as information, not an invitation. Read Lac Apollo before you fish it and the day goes better.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages move between -19°C in January and 15°C in July. The window is narrow, and fish feed hard while it lasts. Ice-out usually falls in mid May, and the weeks after it fish hardest. Break-up near mid May, freeze-up near early November: that is the shape of an average year. Early summer and early autumn carry the open-water season. That shapes the year on Lac Apollo.

• Tackle & Baits

  The access position is unclear from public sources. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. Access is unmapped, which usually means a farm track and a walk. A wire trace and a big bright lure handle the pike; deep water asks for a heavier spoon. Some banks are open only from a marked point. Where tickets apply, they are sold in the nearest town rather than on the bank. Lac Dumas sits 0.5 km off and takes the overflow. Confirm access to Lac Apollo locally before you travel.