Lac Cargre, Quebec: Fishing Spots and Seasons

• Overview

  In Quebec, Lac Cargre falls inside Capitale-Nationale. Everything around it is rolling bush. Laurentides lies 10 km from the water. Beyond it, La Tuque at 41 km and Sainte-Thècle at 46 km. Also worth knowing: Lac Burroughs at 0.7 km, Lac Beauseron the better part of 0.8 km, Lac Lavery at 1.2 km, Lac Dumoulin the better part of 1.4 km and Lac des Volucelles at 1.8 km. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.

• Where to Fish on Lac Cargre

  Depth is unmeasured here, so let the shoreline guide you. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. This is a lake, so the margins and the first drop matter most. County-wide records name lake sturgeon, Atlantic sturgeon, longnose sucker, sauger and channel catfish. Several of these carry legal protection or closed seasons; the rulebook comes before the rod. Read Lac Cargre before you fish it and the day goes better.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The seasonal spread runs -15°C to 17°C. Hard water is a season in its own right here. Winter locks it down, and late April brings it back. Averages place the thaw at late April and the freeze at late November. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. Anyone fishing Lac Cargre regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  No public source sets out the position on this bank. Nothing formal is recorded here: no ramp, no car park, no marked path. For walleye, a jig and minnow near the bottom is the standard; evenings beat middays. Bank access can be seasonal on ground like this. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. Should this one be busy, Lac Burroughs is 0.7 km off. Signs at Lac Cargre carry more weight than any list.