Grand lac Bonhomme near Saint-Félicien: Fishing Spots, Seasons and Access

• Overview

  Grand lac Bonhomme is one of the Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean waters in Quebec. The land about it is taiga. Surface area is around 48 hectares, which gives you real water without needing a boat. The edge runs 4.8 km or so, easy to work in an afternoon. Size puts it in the front rank of our Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean list. The nearest place of any size is Saint-Félicien, 29 km away. Further out sit Saint-Prime (32 km) and Roberval (35 km). It sits well inside the county, so one set of rules covers it.

• Where to Fish on Grand lac Bonhomme

  No chart reached our records; the first cast is your sounding. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. The shallow end warms first and pulls fish in ahead of the rest. Reported across Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean: northern pike, Atlantic salmon and lake whitefish. Some of the species recorded here are protected or tightly regulated, so check what may be targeted before you fish. Grand lac Bonhomme repays a walk before the first cast.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The range across the year is -18°C to 16°C. Winter owns most of the year at this latitude. Once it clears, about early May, the fishing comes on quickly. Ice usually gives way near early May, and forms again about mid November. Just after the ice goes and just before it returns, the fishing lifts. That is the shape of the year on Grand lac Bonhomme.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. There is no mapped parking or launch close by, which usually means walking in. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Sort the permit out before you load the car. Barbless rules turn up on managed water more often than not. For a change of water, Petit lac Bonhomme is 1 km distant. What applies at Grand lac Bonhomme may have changed since it was mapped.