Fishing Lac de l'As in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec

• Overview

  You will find Lac de l'As in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec. The water sits 440 metres up. It covers about 6 hectares, so this is small water you can walk round in under an hour. Leblanc lies 83 km from the water. Chibougamau is 108 km away, with Chapais at 109 km. Within a short drive: Lac Tappin about 0.3 km, Lac Thonac 0.8 km away, Lac des Pyrales about 0.8 km, Lac de la Tonne 1.2 km away and Lac Abos about 1.2 km. No border sits close enough to matter.

• Where to Fish on Lac de l'As

  The records we hold are silent on depth, so plan to find it yourself. 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. Public occurrence data for Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean names northern pike, Atlantic salmon and lake whitefish. Protected fish appear in the records for this area, so treat the list as information, not an invitation. Fish Lac de l'As where the bottom changes rather than where it looks deep.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The year swings from about -18°C in January to roughly 16°C in July. Winter owns most of the year at this latitude. The open season starts with the thaw, near enough early May. On the long-run averages the water opens up around early May and starts locking again about mid November. From the thaw to midsummer the fishing improves week by week. Lac de l'As runs to its own calendar within the local pattern.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. 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. Read any posted signs at the access point rather than assuming. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. Should this one be busy, Lac Tappin is 0.3 km off. Nothing here settles the position at Lac de l'As for certain.