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

• Overview

  Lac du Quatorzieme Mille is a Côte-Nord water, Quebec side. The shore lies 7.6 km out. By elevation it sits in the lower part of our Quebec listings. The nearest place of any size is Havre-Saint-Pierre, 54 km away. The nearest city of size is Sydney, 505 km away. What else is close: Lac McRay sits 2.4 km out, Lac de la Pipe 3.5 km, Lac Simonne sits 4.3 km out, Lac Rond 4.9 km and Lac Anna sits 5.8 km out. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.

• Where to Fish on Lac du Quatorzieme Mille

  No chart reached our records; the first cast is your sounding. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. Survey and observation records for Côte-Nord include logperch. It is the county picture; the agency list is water-specific. At Lac du Quatorzieme Mille light and wind decide more than tackle does.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Temperature averages peak at 16°C in July and bottom out at -12°C in January. The middle months are generous; the ends are demanding. Once it clears, about early May, the fishing comes on quickly. Averages suggest open water from about early May through to roughly late November. The open run goes from the thaw to the freeze, and April through October covers most of it. On Lac du Quatorzieme Mille that shapes the whole year.

• Tackle & Baits

  Our records carry no access rule either way. There is no mapped parking or launch close by, which usually means walking 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. Rules for boats are stricter than rules for the bank in many places. Lac McRay, 2.4 km away, makes the obvious fallback. None of that is settled for Lac du Quatorzieme Mille in what we hold.