Lac du Scorpion Fishing Guide, Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac du Scorpion sits in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, out in Quebec. The water sits 679 metres up. You can fish the entire water from one spot if you pick it well. Most waters listed here for Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean are larger. The town to know is Saint-Honoré, 50 km out. Saint-Fulgence follows at 52 km, then Chicoutimi at 60 km. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Lac du Scorpion

  No figure exists for depth, so let the water show you. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean records list northern pike, Atlantic salmon and lake whitefish among the fish reported. Several of these carry legal protection or closed seasons; the rulebook comes before the rod. Fish Lac du Scorpion where the bottom changes rather than where it looks deep.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages move between -19°C in January and 15°C in July. Winter runs most of the calendar, and everything worth doing happens in the gap. The lid usually goes in mid May, which opens the strongest weeks of the year. Averages place the thaw at mid May and the freeze at early November. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. Keep it in mind when planning a trip to Lac du Scorpion.

• Tackle & Baits

  The paperwork position is blank for this one. Mapping shows an empty shoreline: no ramp, no jetty, no marked entry. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Read any posted signs at the access point rather than assuming. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. Should this one be busy, Lac des Amanites is 0.8 km off. Treat access at Lac du Scorpion as something to verify.