Fishing Lac du Lombric in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac du Lombric is one of the Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean listings for Quebec. The water sits 704 metres up. It measures about 19 hectares, which is a comfortable size for bank fishing. Shoreline comes to about 2.6 km, small enough to learn in a day. Compared with other Quebec water on our list, it sits high. Nearest place of any size is Saint-Fulgence, 40 km away. Saguenay sits 53 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. It sits well inside the county, so one set of rules covers it.

• Where to Fish on Lac du Lombric

  Depth is unmeasured here, so let the shoreline guide you. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Across Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, recorded fish include northern pike, Atlantic salmon, lake whitefish and fallfish. Protected fish appear in the records for this area, so treat the list as information, not an invitation. Lac du Lombric responds to conditions more than to tactics.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warmest month averages 15°C, the coldest about -19°C. The freeze holds for the better part of the year. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about mid May. The open-water window runs from around mid May to about early November in an average year. Reckon on open water from spring through to late autumn, with May and June the strongest. On Lac du Lombric the same rules apply, with local timing.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. A wire trace and a big bright lure handle the pike; deep water asks for a heavier spoon. Check locally before you travel, because a wasted drive is a long one. Some water is controlled locally without a sign saying so. Lac de l'Horloge, 1 km away, makes the obvious fallback. What applies at Lac du Lombric may have changed since it was mapped.