Overcast skies today, with a decent SE wind working the banks and pressure going nowhere. Start the search at Lac Awaypayach along shallow cover and weed edges. Numbers are low everywhere; the evening is the pick of them. Lower the pace and stay patient. Cooler water spreads fish back across the shallows.
The bites are poor now
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Nord-du-Québec, Quebec, is where Lac Awaypayach sits. It sits in taiga. Surface area is around 11 hectares, which gives you real water without needing a boat. Roughly 1.6 km of bank means you can walk to a fresh area when one goes quiet. Most waters listed here for Nord-du-Québec are larger. Some 86 km away sits Chisasibi, the nearest settlement. The big place round here is Greater Sudbury, 739 km distant. This one is safely inside the county line.
No depth figure has reached our records, which makes a plummet useful. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Survey and observation records for Nord-du-Québec include Arctic charr, Pacific cod, brook trout, lake trout and lake whitefish. Species recorded across the county may be limited to a few waters. On Lac Awaypayach that means starting tight and working out.
Typical July readings run about 13°C; by January the average is down near -22°C. Everything is compressed into the middle of the year. Hard cover is dependable here; it goes around mid May. Break-up near mid May, freeze-up near mid November: that is the shape of an average year. Spring is short and heavy here; autumn is longer and steadier. It holds true on Lac Awaypayach more years than not.
Public sources are silent on who controls the bank. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. Nothing is listed nearby for parking or launching a boat. Trout here take small spinners, spoons and, where fly water allows, a nymph or dry. Some banks are open only from a marked point. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. Should this one be busy, Lac Mwakw is 4 km off. The position on Lac Awaypayach is worth confirming on the day.
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