Lac de la Grosse Fishing near Labrecque, Quebec

• Overview

  Set in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Lac de la Grosse is a Quebec water. The country round it is boreal forest from end to end. At 8 hectares it is the sort of place you fish for an evening rather than a day. Labrecque sits 72 km from the bank. For a city, Saguenay is 100 km off. No boundary runs near, so the local rules hold throughout.

• Where to Fish on Lac de la Grosse

  Our records hold no depth for this water. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Reported across Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean: northern pike, Atlantic salmon, lake whitefish and fallfish. Several of these carry legal protection or closed seasons; the rulebook comes before the rod. On Lac de la Grosse the quiet end is the one worth the extra effort.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July runs about 16°C on average, January about -19°C. The fishing year opens late and shuts early. Look for the thaw near early May; the fishing lifts straight after. Break-up sits around early May on average, with the water closing again about mid November. Just after the ice goes and just before it returns, the fishing lifts. Plan any trip to Lac de la Grosse around it.

• Tackle & Baits

  We hold no note on access for this one. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Where access is informal, keep it that way by behaving. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. Grand lac Touladi, 0.8 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Nothing on Lac de la Grosse should be assumed from this page alone.