Fishing Lac de l'Ours in Côte-Nord, Quebec

• Overview

  You will find Lac de l'Ours in Côte-Nord, Quebec. Land around it is spruce and muskeg. At roughly 5 hectares, the whole thing is within casting reach of a single walk. Our Côte-Nord list holds plenty of bigger water. Godefroy sits 119 km from here and is the nearest stop. After that come Port-Cartier at 145 km and Saint-Alexandre at 145 km. No boundary runs near, so the local rules hold throughout.

• Where to Fish on Lac de l'Ours

  There is no published depth for this one, so start shallow and work out. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Reported across Côte-Nord: logperch. These are county-wide records, so not all of them will be in this water. The shape of Lac de l'Ours decides where the fish sit.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages move between -20°C in January and 15°C in July. Winter owns most of the year at this latitude. Count the season from break-up, usually mid May. Open water usually runs from mid May until about early November. The weeks after the thaw and the ones before the freeze are the strongest. Time your trip to Lac de l'Ours by conditions rather than dates.

• Tackle & Baits

  Public sources are silent on who controls the bank. There is no mapped parking or launch nearby, which keeps numbers down. For the perch, a small jig tipped with worm, dropped along the edges, is hard to beat. Where a permit is needed, the nearest town usually sells it. Close seasons apply to some species and not others. Lac de l'Amour at 2.1 km is the sensible second choice. Ask locally about Lac de l'Ours if anything is unclear.