Lac Okoume in Abitibi-Témiscamingue: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Lac Okoume is one of the Abitibi-Témiscamingue listings for Quebec. Beyond the shoreline you have rolling bush. The water covers some 17 hectares, so pick a bank rather than trying to cover it all. Roughly 2.5 km of bank means you can walk to a fresh area when one goes quiet. Nearest place of any size is Deep River, 112 km away. The big place round here is Gatineau, 216 km distant. The county line is nowhere near, so one local authority covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Lac Okoume

  No depth figure has reached our records, which makes a plummet useful. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Species logged across Abitibi-Témiscamingue include northern pike, yellow perch, walleye and white sucker. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Take Lac Okoume a stretch at a time.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The seasonal spread runs -16°C to 17°C. A full turn of seasons, with the strongest sport on either side of summer. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about early May. Expect the water usable from around early May until roughly late November. The weeks after the thaw and the ones before the freeze are the strongest. On Lac Okoume the same rules apply, with local timing.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. No built facilities appear in mapping around this water. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Where access is informal, keep it that way by behaving. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. For a change of water, Lac Cupule is 0.9 km distant. Confirm before you fish Lac Okoume.