Lac du Call in Abitibi-Témiscamingue: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  The Abitibi-Témiscamingue entry here is Lac du Call, in Quebec. It lies 445 metres above sea level. Leblanc sits 97 km from the bank. For a city, Gatineau is 294 km off. In the same area: Lac Aldrich roughly 1.8 km, Lac Gilles after 1.9 km, Lac Madeleine roughly 2.2 km, Petit lac Colombe after 2.4 km and Lac des Tetards roughly 2.4 km. It sits well inside its county, with no border complications.

• Where to Fish on Lac du Call

  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. Open biodiversity records for Abitibi-Témiscamingue list northern pike, yellow perch, walleye, white sucker and brown bullhead. County records show the wider picture rather than this one place. At Lac du Call the water rewards a slow, careful approach.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages move between -18°C in January and 16°C in July. The freeze holds for the better part of the year. The freeze runs deep into the year, with break-up near early May. On the long-run averages the water opens up around early May and starts locking again about mid November. The weeks after the thaw and the ones before the freeze are the strongest. Lac du Call runs to its own calendar within the local pattern.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether the bank is open is not something our records settle. No launch point is recorded nearby, so this is a bank water unless you carry a boat in. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Parking is often the real limit rather than the bank itself. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. Lac Aldrich at 1.8 km is the sensible second choice. Treat Lac du Call as unsettled until someone local tells you otherwise.