Lac Grebe in Côte-Nord: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Set in Côte-Nord, Lac Grebe is a Quebec water. It stands 103 metres above sea level. Ground here is low by Quebec standards. Some 57 km away sits Baie-Comeau, the nearest settlement. Hauterive is 65 km and Cap-Chat 66 km. Other water within reach: Lac Sainte-Croix within 0.5 km, Lac Labrecque sits 0.6 km out, Lac Learmonth within 1.6 km, Lac Michaud sits 1.9 km out and Lac Rocque within 2.1 km. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Lac Grebe

  No depth figure has reached our records, which makes a plummet useful. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Open biodiversity records for Côte-Nord list logperch. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Fish Lac Grebe where the bottom changes rather than where it looks deep.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Climate records put July near 16°C and January near -14°C. Cold winters and warm summers give a wide working range. Look for the thaw near early May; the fishing lifts straight after. The lid tends to go about early May and return around mid November. June through September is the settled part of the year, with the shoulders busier for fish. On Lac Grebe the same rules apply, with local timing.

• Tackle & Baits

  The paperwork position is blank for this one. No launch point is recorded nearby, so this is a bank water unless you carry a boat in. For the perch, a small jig tipped with worm, dropped along the edges, is hard to beat. Provincial rules still apply whatever the bank status. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. Lac Sainte-Croix at 0.5 km is the sensible second choice. Check the position on Lac Grebe before loading the car.