Fishing Lac Eros in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec

• Overview

  You will find Lac Eros in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec. Country round the bank runs to northern bush. The water covers some 26 hectares, so pick a bank rather than trying to cover it all. With about 3.8 km of edge, you can try several depths in one session. Normandin lies 49 km from the water. Saguenay sits 163 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. The nearest edge is a long way off, so local rules apply throughout.

• Where to Fish on Lac Eros

  Depth is unknown to us, and the shoreline is the better guide. The shallow end warms first and pulls fish in ahead of the rest. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean records list northern pike, Atlantic salmon, lake whitefish and fallfish among the fish reported. Protected fish appear in the records for this area, so treat the list as information, not an invitation. At Lac Eros the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Climate records put July near 16°C and January near -18°C. This far north the hard season runs and runs. Count the season from break-up, usually early May. The open-water window runs from around early May to about mid November in an average year. The middle of summer slows a little, with dawn and dusk carrying it. The season on Lac Eros follows the weather closely.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. Nothing is mapped in the way of a ramp or car park within a short radius. For the pike, wire up and throw larger lures along the weed edges. Rules differ from one water to the next round here. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. For a change of water, Lac Psyche is 0.6 km distant. Check the current arrangement for Lac Eros.