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

• Overview

  This water sits in Côte-Nord, Quebec. Everything around it is taiga. Small at around 2 hectares: two anglers spread out cover most of it. Our Côte-Nord list holds plenty of bigger water. Saint-Honoré sits 81 km from here and is the nearest stop. It is 92 km to Saguenay, the nearest city. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Lac du Pavot

  There is no recorded depth, so work from what you can see. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Fish documented in Côte-Nord include logperch. Read it as a county summary, not a water-by-water list. Lac du Pavot repays a walk before the first cast.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The range across the year is -19°C to 16°C. Everything is compressed into the middle of the year. Hard cover is dependable here; it goes around early May. The open-water window runs from around early May to about mid November in an average year. Spring is short and heavy here; autumn is longer and steadier. That shapes the year on Lac du Pavot.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. Access points are not mapped for this water, which suits people who like quiet. For the perch, a small jig tipped with worm, dropped along the edges, is hard to beat. A phone call first saves an afternoon. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. Lac du Lacis sits 0.5 km off and takes the overflow. Confirm before you fish Lac du Pavot.