Lac du Bon Vent Fishing in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac du Bon Vent is set in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec. The surface lies 363 metres up. Small at around 7 hectares: two anglers spread out cover most of it. Nearest place of any size is Pont Rouge, 73 km away. Then Labrecque, 74 km, and Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc, 74 km. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Lac du Bon Vent

  We hold no survey for this water; read the slope of the shoreline instead. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Open biodiversity records for Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean list northern pike, Atlantic salmon, lake whitefish and fallfish. At least one recorded species is protected in parts of its range; read the local rules before targeting anything. Treat Lac du Bon Vent as a water to read rather than to cover.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Average temperature peaks around 16°C in July and bottoms out near -19°C in January. Water stays cold even at the height of the year. Ice-out usually falls in early May, and the weeks after it fish hardest. Break-up near early May, freeze-up near mid November: that is the shape of an average year. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. It sets the rhythm of the year at Lac du Bon Vent.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing on record says whether the bank is open or closed. No made access is recorded, so a short walk in is the likely arrangement. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Rules differ from one water to the next round here. Where tickets apply, they are sold in the nearest town rather than on the bank. The nearest alternative is Lac du Passant, 0.7 km out. Nothing here settles the position at Lac du Bon Vent for certain.