Lac Blackburn, Quebec: Fishing Spots and Seasons

• Overview

  Out in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec, sits Lac Blackburn. The water sits 176 metres up. Surface area is around 11 hectares, which gives you real water without needing a boat. It is low-lying compared with other Quebec water we list. Labrecque is the closest place, 20 km off. For a city, Saguenay is 41 km off. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Lac Blackburn

  There is no recorded depth, so work from what you can see. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Open biodiversity records for Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean list northern pike, Atlantic salmon, lake whitefish and fallfish. Several of these carry legal protection or closed seasons; the rulebook comes before the rod. Fish Lac Blackburn to its features, not to its size.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warmest month averages 16°C, the coldest about -18°C. Ice holds for a long stretch, so the open weeks matter more here than further south. The lid usually sets by midwinter and gives way around early May. The open-water window runs from around early May to about mid November in an average year. Late spring and early autumn carry the year between them. That shapes the year on Lac Blackburn.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing on record says whether the bank is open or closed. No launch point is recorded nearby, so this is a bank water unless you carry a boat in. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Sort the permit out before you load the car. Where tickets apply, they are sold in the nearest town rather than on the bank. Should this one be busy, Lac Bergeron is 1.3 km off. Nothing on Lac Blackburn should be assumed from this page alone.