Wet weather working through today, with a whisper of wind from the SSE and pressure going nowhere. Lac Dompierre should fish best around the margins and the shelf beyond them today. Numbers are low everywhere; the night is the pick of them. Scale down and fish slowly. The season of moving fish: stay mobile and watch for bait.
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Lac Dompierre sits in Nord-du-Québec, out in Quebec. It stands 405 metres above sea level. This is sizeable water at about 4.69 sq km, and a boat opens up most of it. There is roughly 26 km of bank, and each arm behaves like its own water. Head to Mistissini, 60 km away, for anything you forgot. Then Chibougamau, 84 km, and Chapais, 97 km. Rules here are straightforward: one set of provincial rules.
Depth is not on record here, which means reading the ground instead. 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 Nord-du-Québec: Arctic charr, brook trout, lake trout, lake whitefish and cisco. Records at county level tell you what is around, not what is stocked here. On Lac Dompierre a short move beats a long cast.
Climate normals give 16°C for July and -20°C for January. A short, intense season is the rule this far north. Count the season from break-up, usually mid May. Climate figures give an open season running mid May to early November. Spring is short and heavy here; autumn is longer and steadier. At Lac Dompierre the season follows that pattern closely.
Whether the bank is open is not something our records settle. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. Access is unmapped, which usually means a farm track and a walk. Light line and small metal for the trout; a fly rod earns its place on calm evenings. Season dates differ by species, so read the table. Rules for boats are stricter than rules for the bank in many places. Failing this one, try Lac Domergue, 2.5 km away. Rules at Lac Dompierre are worth checking on the day.
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| 6 | 7.7 | 9.3 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15 | 16.5 | 17.8 | 18.6 | 18.3 | 17.6 | 16.5 | 15.1 | 14.4 | 13.2 | 11.4 | 9.6 | 9 | 10.8 | 10.6 | 11.6 | 11.6 | 10.4 | 10.6 |
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| 86 | 89 | 91 | 88 | 88 | 92 | 94 | 95 | 93 | 92 | 91 | 88 | 87 | 86 | 85 | 84 | 85 | 84 | 85 | 87 | 89 | 90 | 92 | 93 |
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