Lac de l'Averse Fishing Guide, Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec

• Overview

  Set in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Lac de l'Averse is a Quebec water. Height above sea level is 314 metres. At roughly 5 hectares, the whole thing is within casting reach of a single walk. Pont Rouge is the closest town at 58 km. Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc is 59 km and Sainte-Monique 59 km. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end. There is no development on most of the bank.

• Where to Fish on Lac de l'Averse

  No depth figure appears in our records, so the bank has to tell you. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. County-wide records name northern pike, Atlantic salmon and lake whitefish. Some of the species recorded here are protected or tightly regulated, so check what may be targeted before you fish. At Lac de l'Averse the water rewards a slow, careful approach.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July is the warm end of the year here, averaging about 16°C, while January sits near -19°C. Open water is the exception rather than the rule here. The lid usually goes in early May, which opens the strongest weeks of the year. Break-up near early May, freeze-up near mid November: that is the shape of an average year. The weeks after the thaw and the ones before the freeze are the strongest. On Lac de l'Averse that shapes the whole year.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether the bank is open is not something our records settle. There is no mapped parking or launch nearby, which keeps numbers down. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Parking is often the real limit rather than the bank itself. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. The nearest alternative is Lac des Parulines, 0.6 km out. Nothing here settles the position at Lac de l'Averse for certain.