Fishing at Lac des Grandes Oreilles, Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec

• Overview

  Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec, is where Lac des Grandes Oreilles sits. The water sits 427 metres up. The water measures roughly 2 hectares, so nothing here is far from anything else. On size it sits at the modest end of our Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean list. Métabetchouan lies 30 km from the water. Saguenay sits 98 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. It sits well inside the county, so one set of rules covers it.

• Where to Fish on Lac des Grandes Oreilles

  There is no recorded depth, so work from what you can see. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. Records held for Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean cover northern pike, Atlantic salmon, lake whitefish and fallfish. Protected fish appear in the records for this area, so treat the list as information, not an invitation. On Lac des Grandes Oreilles the first feature you find is usually worth a session.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages here run 17°C at the top of summer and -17°C at the bottom of winter. Cold dominates the year and the fishing works around it. Hard water holds through the cold months, breaking up near early May. The water is typically free of ice between early May and mid November. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. Plan around that when you fish Lac des Grandes Oreilles.

• Tackle & Baits

  Our records carry no access rule either way. No built facilities appear in mapping around this water. A wire trace and a big bright lure handle the pike; deep water asks for a heavier spoon. A phone call first saves an afternoon. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. Lac des Trois Caribous, 0.8 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Treat access at Lac des Grandes Oreilles as something to verify.