Fishing Lac du Calumet in Côte-Nord, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac du Calumet falls in Côte-Nord, part of Quebec. It sits 11 km in from the sea. The water covers around 1.03 sq km, which puts most of it out of reach from the bank. Around 6.4 km of bank, which is a long day on foot. Supplies mean a trip to Saint-Alexandre, 52 km off. Port-Cartier is 53 km and Baie-Comeau 77 km. It sits well inside its county, with no border complications.

• Where to Fish on Lac du Calumet

  The records we hold are silent on depth, so plan to find it yourself. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Public occurrence data for Côte-Nord names logperch. What holds for the county may not hold for this water. Read Lac du Calumet before you fish it and the day goes better.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The seasonal spread runs -16°C to 16°C. Winter owns most of the year at this latitude. The freeze runs deep into the year, with break-up near early May. Break-up sits around early May on average, with the water closing again about mid November. Just after the ice goes and just before it returns, the fishing lifts. Lac du Calumet fishes to that pattern most years.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing in our records says who may fish here. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. No launch point is recorded nearby, so this is a bank water unless you carry a boat in. For the perch, a small jig tipped with worm, dropped along the edges, is hard to beat. Where access is informal, keep it that way by behaving. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. Lac Bill at 0.8 km is the sensible second choice. Treat Lac du Calumet as unsettled until someone local tells you otherwise.