Lac Caro Fishing near Chute-aux-Outardes, Quebec

• Overview

  The Côte-Nord end of Quebec holds Lac Caro. The surface lies 517 metres up. Roughly 17 hectares: a morning covers one end, an afternoon the other. Bank access stretches around 2.2 km in total. By elevation it is in the upper part of our Quebec listings. Start from Chute-aux-Outardes, 93 km down the road. The big place round here is Saguenay, 198 km distant. Rules here are straightforward: one set of provincial rules.

• Where to Fish on Lac Caro

  Our records hold no depth for this water. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Open biodiversity records for Côte-Nord list logperch. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Take Lac Caro a stretch at a time.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages move between -19°C in January and 16°C in July. Winter owns most of the year at this latitude. After mid May the shallows warm and the fish move up. From about mid May to around early November, expect open water on the long-run figures. May into June fishes hardest, and September gives a second good stretch before the lid returns. The season on Lac Caro rarely departs from it.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing on record says whether the bank is open or closed. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. Public mapping records no formal access here, so plan for a walk and soft ground. Perch take small lures and worms fished near the bottom close to structure. Where the road in crosses private land, ask first. Rules for boats are stricter than rules for the bank in many places. Lac Tempo sits 1.3 km off and takes the overflow. Where Lac Caro is concerned, a local answer beats a written one.