Lac du Pingouin Fishing in Côte-Nord, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac du Pingouin is listed under Côte-Nord, Quebec. It lies 620 metres above sea level. It covers about 4 hectares, so this is small water you can walk round in under an hour. On size it sits at the modest end of our Côte-Nord list. Nearest place of any size is Sacré-Coeur, 71 km away. It is 88 km to Saguenay, the nearest city. There is no boundary nearby to worry about.

• Where to Fish on Lac du Pingouin

  Without a survey to go on, judge depth from how the bank falls away. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. Survey and observation records for Côte-Nord include logperch. These are county-wide records, so not all of them will be in this water. The near bank of Lac du Pingouin is often the one people ignore.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The range across the year is -18°C to 16°C. Open water is the exception rather than the rule here. Count the season from break-up, usually early May. Ice clears near early May and comes back about mid November in a typical year. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. That is the shape of the year on Lac du Pingouin.

• Tackle & Baits

  The rules here are undocumented as far as public sources go. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. Perch take small lures and worms fished near the bottom close to structure. Provincial rules still apply whatever the bank status. Where tickets apply, they are sold in the nearest town rather than on the bank. Lac Losange at 1.6 km is the sensible second choice. None of that is settled for Lac du Pingouin in what we hold.