Lac Butot in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  You will find Lac Butot in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec. Beyond the shoreline you have northern bush. At 2 hectares it is the sort of place you fish for an evening rather than a day. Our Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean list holds plenty of bigger water. Supplies mean a trip to Normandin, 68 km off. Albanel is 74 km away, with Saint-Félicien at 80 km. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Lac Butot

  Depth is not on record here, which means reading the ground instead. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. 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. Lac Butot repays a walk before the first cast.

• Seasonal Patterns

  On the long-term average, July reads 16°C and January reads -18°C. Everything is compressed into the middle of the year. Hard water holds through the cold months, breaking up near early May. Average temperatures cross freezing around early May in spring and again near mid November in autumn. The open run goes from the thaw to the freeze, and April through October covers most of it. The season on Lac Butot follows the weather closely.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. Nothing is listed nearby for parking or launching a boat. A wire trace and a big bright lure handle the pike; deep water asks for a heavier spoon. Local rules can differ across the county line, so check where you stand. Some ground is open by custom rather than by right, so tread carefully. If the gate is shut, Lac Renaudot at 1.4 km is the nearest alternative. None of that is settled for Lac Butot in what we hold.