Lac du Kalmia in Côte-Nord: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Lac du Kalmia is listed under Côte-Nord, Quebec. Tidal water begins 13 km from here. It covers about 2 hectares, so this is small water you can walk round in under an hour. It is one of the smaller waters we list in Côte-Nord. Start from Baie-Comeau, 65 km down the road. Saint-Alexandre follows at 66 km, then Port-Cartier at 66 km. No border sits close enough to matter.

• Where to Fish on Lac du Kalmia

  Depth went unrecorded, which puts the reading back on you. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Fish documented in Côte-Nord include logperch. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Lac du Kalmia fishes better once you know its edges.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July runs about 16°C on average, January about -15°C. Winter closes the water for a while, and the reopening is worth catching. Winter fishing happens on the ice here, with open water back around early May. The open-water window runs from around early May to about mid November in an average year. The open run goes from the thaw to the freeze, and April through October covers most of it. That shapes the year on Lac du Kalmia.

• Tackle & Baits

  Our records carry no access rule either way. 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. Gates get locked out of season on water like this. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. Lac de la Grande Decharge, 0.7 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Check the position on Lac du Kalmia before loading the car.