Fishing Lac du Vicaire in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac du Vicaire is set in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec. Everything around it is taiga. Surface area is around 11 hectares, which gives you real water without needing a boat. Shoreline comes to about 2.1 km, small enough to learn in a day. Compared with other Quebec water on our list, it sits high. 111 km away sits Dolbeau-Mistassini, the nearest town. Beyond it, Albanel at 111 km and Pont Rouge at 111 km. No county line comes close, which keeps the paperwork simple.

• Where to Fish on Lac du Vicaire

  No depth figure appears in our records, so the bank has to tell you. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Records held for Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean cover northern pike, Atlantic salmon, lake whitefish and fallfish. Protected fish appear in the records for this area, so treat the list as information, not an invitation. On Lac du Vicaire that means starting tight and working out.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Climate normals give 15°C for July and -20°C for January. Winter owns most of the year at this latitude. The freeze runs deep into the year, with break-up near mid May. Averages place the thaw at mid May and the freeze at early November. Fish feed hardest at the start and the close of the open season. Anyone fishing Lac du Vicaire regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access status is simply unknown for this water. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. We find no slipway, car park or made path within a short radius, so treat access as rough. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Check whether a boat is allowed before you tow one. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. The nearest alternative is Lac Francois-Savard, 1.2 km out. None of that is settled for Lac du Vicaire in what we hold.