Lac du Genevrier Fishing Guide, Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac du Genevrier is set in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec. What surrounds it is northern bush. With some 13 hectares of water, there is room for a boat but no need of one. Roughly 2.8 km of bank means you can walk to a fresh area when one goes quiet. It sits higher than most water we list in Quebec. Leblanc lies 69 km from the water. For a city, Saguenay is 180 km off. It sits well inside the county, so one set of rules covers it.

• Where to Fish on Lac du Genevrier

  There is no recorded depth, so work from what you can see. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Survey and observation records for Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean include northern pike, Atlantic salmon, lake whitefish and fallfish. Several of these carry legal protection or closed seasons; the rulebook comes before the rod. Lac du Genevrier responds to conditions more than to tactics.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warmest month averages 16°C, the coldest about -18°C. This far north the hard season runs and runs. Ice-out usually falls in early May, and the weeks after it fish hardest. Climate figures give an open season running early May to mid November. The first weeks of open water and the last are the ones to plan for. The season on Lac du Genevrier rarely departs from it.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. Nothing is listed nearby for parking or launching a boat. For the pike, wire up and throw larger lures along the weed edges. Check whether a boat is allowed before you tow one. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. Lac Dente sits 1.2 km off and takes the overflow. None of that is settled for Lac du Genevrier in what we hold.