Fishing Lac Crochet in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac Crochet is a Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean water, in Quebec. Elevation runs to 354 metres. It covers about 7 hectares, so this is small water you can walk round in under an hour. The town to know is Pont Rouge, 76 km out. For a city, Saguenay is 103 km off. If this one is busy: Lac en Galoche about 1.1 km, Lac du Trou the better part of 1.2 km, Lac des Vents about 1.2 km, Lac du Poisson-Qui-Mord the better part of 1.3 km and Lac Malek about 1.4 km. No boundary runs near, so the local rules hold throughout.

• Where to Fish on Lac Crochet

  No depth figure appears in our records, so the bank has to tell you. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Survey and observation records for Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean include northern pike, Atlantic salmon, lake whitefish and fallfish. Protected fish appear in the records for this area, so treat the list as information, not an invitation. Fish Lac Crochet where the bottom changes rather than where it looks deep.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Temperature averages peak at 16°C in July and bottom out at -19°C in January. The ice season is long here and the open one short. The lid usually goes in early May, which opens the strongest weeks of the year. The season between ice runs from about early May to mid November. Fish feed hardest at the start and the close of the open season. It holds true on Lac Crochet more years than not.

• Tackle & Baits

  The access position is unclear from public sources. Nothing is listed nearby for parking or launching a boat. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. A landowner's word beats anything printed elsewhere. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. The nearest alternative is Lac en Galoche, 1.1 km out. Where Lac Crochet is concerned, a local answer beats a written one.