Lac Auga Fishing Guide, Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac Auga is one of the Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean listings for Quebec. The ground around here is taiga. It covers about 3 hectares, so this is small water you can walk round in under an hour. Our Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean list holds plenty of bigger water. The closest town, Normandin, is 76 km distant. It is 193 km to Saguenay, the nearest city. It lies deep inside the county rather than near an edge.

• Where to Fish on Lac Auga

  We hold no survey for this water; read the slope of the shoreline instead. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Reported across Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean: 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 Auga before you fish it and the day goes better.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages here run 16°C at the top of summer and -18°C at the bottom of winter. A short, intense season is the rule this far north. The lid arrives early and lasts until roughly early May. Averages place the thaw at early May and the freeze at mid November. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. Plan around that when you fish Lac Auga.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing on record says whether the bank is open or closed. We find no slipway, car park or made path within a short radius, so treat access as rough. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Look for a notice board at the entrance. Barbless rules turn up on managed water more often than not. Lac Alaise sits 0.4 km off and takes the overflow. Ask locally about Lac Auga if anything is unclear.