Fishing at Lac du Perdu, Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec

• Overview

  Set in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec, this is Lac du Perdu. Elevation runs to 290 metres. Small at around 2 hectares: two anglers spread out cover most of it. Our Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean list holds plenty of bigger water. Some 30 km away sits Pont Rouge, the nearest settlement. Saguenay is the closest city, 95 km away. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Lac du Perdu

  Our records hold no depth for this water. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. Public occurrence data for Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean names northern pike, Atlantic salmon, lake whitefish and fallfish. Several of these carry legal protection or closed seasons; the rulebook comes before the rod. Anyone new to Lac du Perdu should walk it once before setting up.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Climate records put July near 17°C and January near -19°C. Cold dominates the year and the fishing works around it. Count on hard cover from midwinter, and open water from early May. Ice clears near early May and comes back about mid November in a typical year. Early summer and early autumn carry the open-water season. At Lac du Perdu the season follows that pattern closely.

• Tackle & Baits

  The paperwork position is blank for this one. Public data shows nothing built here, so treat the whole approach as informal. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Rules differ from one water to the next round here. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. If the gate is shut, Lac de la Grosse Truite at 0.6 km is the nearest alternative. None of that is settled for Lac du Perdu in what we hold.