Lac Clemens, Quebec: Fishing Spots and Seasons

• Overview

  Lac Clemens is an Abitibi-Témiscamingue water, in Quebec. Everything around it is boreal forest. Surface area is around 10 hectares, which gives you real water without needing a boat. Shoreline comes to about 1.6 km, small enough to learn in a day. Start from Senneterre, 74 km down the road. Val-d'Or follows at 95 km, then Barraute at 99 km. No county line comes close, which keeps the paperwork simple.

• Where to Fish on Lac Clemens

  No chart reached our records; the first cast is your sounding. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Survey and observation records for Abitibi-Témiscamingue include northern pike, yellow perch and walleye. County records show what lives in the area; the local agency holds the water-by-water list. On Lac Clemens that means starting tight and working out.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Between January at about -18°C and July at about 17°C, the water has a wide range to work through. Winter runs most of the calendar, and everything worth doing happens in the gap. Once it clears, about early May, the fishing comes on quickly. Expect the water usable from around early May until roughly mid November. Right after break-up, and again as the nights sharpen, is when to go. Time your trip to Lac Clemens by conditions rather than dates.

• Tackle & Baits

  We have no record of the rules that apply on this bank. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. No made access is recorded, so a short walk in is the likely arrangement. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Rules differ from one water to the next round here. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. Should this one be busy, Lac Percy is 1.2 km off. Nothing here settles the position at Lac Clemens for certain.