Lac Fou in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Quebec holds Lac Fou, in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean. It sits 38 km in from the sea. It covers about 3 hectares, so this is small water you can walk round in under an hour. Our Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean list holds plenty of bigger water. Saint-Fulgence is the closest place, 41 km off. Saint-Honoré is 43 km and Chicoutimi 50 km. Near neighbours: Lac Adrien within 0.4 km, Lac Odelin at 0.6 km, Lac Maurice within 0.8 km, Lac Mesy at 1.3 km and Lac Courbe within 2.1 km. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Lac Fou

  Depth is unmeasured here, so let the shoreline guide you. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. This is a lake, so the margins and the first drop matter most. Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean records list northern pike, Atlantic salmon, lake whitefish and fallfish among the fish reported. Several of these carry legal protection or closed seasons; the rulebook comes before the rod. Lac Fou gives up more to patience than to distance.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Between January at about -19°C and July at about 15°C, the water has a wide range to work through. Winter runs most of the calendar, and everything worth doing happens in the gap. The lid usually sets by midwinter and gives way around mid May. Expect the water usable from around mid May until roughly early November. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. Anyone fishing Lac Fou regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  We hold no note on access for this one. No built facilities appear in mapping around this water. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Check locally before you travel, because a wasted drive is a long one. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. For a change of water, Lac Adrien is 0.4 km distant. Nothing on Lac Fou should be assumed from this page alone.