Soft grey light all day today, with next to no ripple and the barometer holding steady. Start the search at Lac de la Fortune along shallow cover and weed edges. A stay-home graph, with the morning as the one excuse to go. Quiet tactics only; the fish will not chase today. Cooler water spreads fish back across the shallows.
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Out in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec, sits Lac de la Fortune. The surface lies 293 metres up. About 4 hectares of surface, which puts the far bank inside easy sight. It is one of the smaller waters we list in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean. The closest town, Pont Rouge, is 59 km away. Beyond it, Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc at 60 km and Sainte-Monique at 61 km. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.
No published figure covers depth, so learn it as you fish. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. County-wide records name northern pike, Atlantic salmon and lake whitefish. Several of these carry legal protection or closed seasons; the rulebook comes before the rod. On Lac de la Fortune the first feature you find is usually worth a session.
The warm month here averages 16°C; the cold one sits at -19°C. The freeze holds for the better part of the year. Hard water holds through the cold months, breaking up near early May. Averages suggest open water from about early May through to roughly mid November. The open run goes from the thaw to the freeze, and April through October covers most of it. Keep it in mind when planning a trip to Lac de la Fortune.
Ownership and access are not documented in what we hold. Nothing is mapped in the way of a ramp or car park within a short radius. For the pike, wire up and throw larger lures along the weed edges. Check locally before you travel, because a wasted drive is a long one. Fishing rules and camping rules are set separately here. Lac des Jaseurs, 1.7 km away, makes the obvious fallback. None of that is settled for Lac de la Fortune in what we hold.
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| 6.9 | 6.2 | 6 | 6 | 5.6 | 6.3 | 7 | 7.9 | 10.7 | 13.1 | 13.9 | 15.1 | 17.5 | 17 | 17.2 | 18.1 | 17.3 | 16.5 | 15 | 14.1 | 13.3 | 12.2 | 11.8 | 11.3 |
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| 101 | 101 | 101 | 101 | 101 | 101 | 101 | 101 | 101 | 101 | 101 | 101 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| 78 | 80 | 85 | 86 | 86 | 86 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 87 | 87 | 87 | 87 | 86 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 87 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 89 | 91 | 92 |
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