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

• Overview

  Lac Fleurette sits within Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean in Quebec. The water sits 538 metres up. It covers about 8 hectares, so this is small water you can walk round in under an hour. By elevation it is in the upper part of our Quebec listings. Saint-Honoré at 75 km is the nearest place to stop. Further out sit Labrecque (77 km) and Saint-Ambroise (79 km). The nearest edge is a long way off, so local rules apply throughout.

• Where to Fish on Lac Fleurette

  Depth went unrecorded, which puts the reading back on you. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. County-wide records name 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 Fleurette that means starting tight and working out.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Expect July near 15°C and January near -19°C on the long-run figures. Open water arrives late and leaves early, which concentrates the fishing. Firm cover through the cold months, then open water from mid May. On the long-run averages the water opens up around mid May and starts locking again about early November. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. It sets the rhythm of the year at Lac Fleurette.

• Tackle & Baits

  The paperwork position is blank for this one. Mapping records no facilities at all near this water. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Some banks are open only from a marked point. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. Failing this one, try Lac Reed, 1.2 km away. None of that is settled for Lac Fleurette in what we hold.