Lac Desermous Fishing in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac Desermous is a Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean water, in Quebec. What surrounds it is boreal forest. It covers about 6 hectares, so this is small water you can walk round in under an hour. Nearest place of any size is Normandin, 66 km away. Saguenay sits 183 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. It lies deep inside the county rather than near an edge.

• Where to Fish on Lac Desermous

  Depth is not on record here, which means reading the ground instead. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. 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. Some of the species recorded here are protected or tightly regulated, so check what may be targeted before you fish. On Lac Desermous the quiet end is the one worth the extra effort.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Climate normals give 16°C for July and -19°C for January. Cold dominates the calendar on water this far north. The lid arrives early and lasts until roughly early May. Expect the water usable from around early May until roughly mid November. The first weeks of open water and the last are the ones to plan for. Anyone fishing Lac Desermous regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. Nothing built is recorded close to the bank here. 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. Lac de l'Arret at 1.1 km is the sensible second choice. None of that is settled for Lac Desermous in what we hold.