Fishing at Lac Amazy, Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac Amazy is listed under Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec. The water sits 396 metres up. The water measures roughly 4 hectares, so nothing here is far from anything else. Chibougamau lies 84 km from the water. Chapais is 85 km and Leblanc 102 km. Close by you have: Lac Carquois within 2.3 km, Lac Gourge sits 2.9 km out, Lac Radis within 3.4 km, Lac Geveze sits 3.5 km out and Lac du Sabbat within 4.1 km. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Lac Amazy

  Depth is unmeasured here, so let the shoreline guide you. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. Fish documented in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean include northern pike, Atlantic salmon, lake whitefish and fallfish. Several of these carry legal protection or closed seasons; the rulebook comes before the rod. Treat Lac Amazy as a water to read rather than to cover.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Expect July to average close to 16°C, with January the cold end at about -18°C. Open water is the exception rather than the rule here. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about early May. The season between ice runs from about early May to mid November. The strongest runs come at either end of the open season. Anyone fishing Lac Amazy regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  The access position is unclear from public sources. 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. Rules for this water may differ from the county norm. Rules for boats are stricter than rules for the bank in many places. Lac Carquois sits 2.3 km off and takes the overflow. Check the position on Lac Amazy before loading the car.