Lac des Trefles in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  The Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean entry here is Lac des Trefles, in Quebec. The surface lies 427 metres up. Labrecque lies 49 km from the water. Further out sit L'Ascension-de-Notre-Seigneur (50 km) and Sainte-Monique (51 km). Nearby, in order: Lac du Camp at about 0.5 km, Lac Banane 0.8 km, Lac Tommy at about 1.4 km, Lac Clair 2 km and Crique Vincent at about 2.6 km. No border sits close enough to matter.

• Where to Fish on Lac des Trefles

  Without a survey to go on, judge depth from how the bank falls away. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. 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. The shape of Lac des Trefles decides where the fish sit.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Long-run averages give July about 16°C and January about -19°C. This far north the hard season runs and runs. Look for the thaw near early May; the fishing lifts straight after. The open-water window runs from around early May to about mid November in an average year. The weeks after the thaw and the ones before the freeze are the strongest. It holds true on Lac des Trefles more years than not.

• Tackle & Baits

  The rules here are undocumented as far as public sources go. The map shows no ramp or car park nearby, so this is a walk-in water. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. A landowner's word beats anything printed elsewhere. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. Lac du Camp, 0.5 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Nothing here settles the position at Lac des Trefles for certain.