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

• Overview

  Lac de l'Autour is a Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean water, Quebec side. Beyond the shoreline you have boreal forest. At 4 hectares it is the sort of place you fish for an evening rather than a day. On size it sits at the modest end of our Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean list. For supplies, Saint-Fulgence is 42 km out. The big place round here is Saguenay, 52 km distant. It lies deep inside the county rather than near an edge.

• Where to Fish on Lac de l'Autour

  Depth is unknown to us, and the shoreline is the better guide. 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, lake whitefish and fallfish. At least one recorded species is protected in parts of its range; read the local rules before targeting anything. At Lac de l'Autour the water rewards a slow, careful approach.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July runs about 15°C on average, January about -19°C. Open water is the exception rather than the rule here. Count on hard cover from midwinter, and open water from mid May. The lid tends to go about mid May and return around early November. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. Anyone fishing Lac de l'Autour regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  No public source sets out the position on this bank. No car park, ramp or path is recorded within easy reach of the shore. A wire trace and a big bright lure handle the pike; deep water asks for a heavier spoon. Parking space is the usual limit rather than the bank itself. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. For a change of water, Lac de la Grosse is 0.9 km distant. Nothing here settles the position at Lac de l'Autour for certain.