Lac de la Taupe Fishing Guide, Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac de la Taupe is a Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean water, Quebec side. The surface lies 536 metres up. Small at around 6 hectares: two anglers spread out cover most of it. Compared with other Quebec water on our list, it sits high. Nearest place of any size is Normandin, 58 km away. After that come Albanel at 64 km and Saint-Félicien at 66 km. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.

• Where to Fish on Lac de la Taupe

  No depth figure has reached our records, which makes a plummet useful. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Species logged across Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean include northern pike, Atlantic salmon, lake whitefish and fallfish. Some of the species recorded here are protected or tightly regulated, so check what may be targeted before you fish. Lac de la Taupe gives up more to patience than to distance.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The seasonal spread runs -19°C to 16°C. Open water is the exception rather than the rule here. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about early May. Climate averages put the opening at about early May and the closing near mid November. September and October fish steadily right up to the freeze. That is the shape of the year on Lac de la Taupe.

• Tackle & Baits

  Our records carry no access rule either way. No made access appears within a short radius, so plan to park on a verge and walk. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. A landowner's word beats anything printed elsewhere. Access can change hands, so last year's answer may not hold. Failing this one, try Lac Couleuvre, 1 km away. None of that is settled for Lac de la Taupe in what we hold.