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

• Overview

  Lac Lapointe is set in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec. The country here is taiga. The water measures roughly 2 hectares, so nothing here is far from anything else. It is a small entry by Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean standards. You are 39 km from Métabetchouan. Saguenay sits 92 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. The boundary is close enough to be worth checking before you fish.

• Where to Fish on Lac Lapointe

  There is no recorded depth, so work from what you can see. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Open biodiversity records for Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean list northern pike, Atlantic salmon, lake whitefish and fallfish. Several of these carry legal protection or closed seasons; the rulebook comes before the rod. At Lac Lapointe the water rewards a slow, careful approach.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July runs about 17°C on average, January about -17°C. The ice season is long here and the open one short. The lid usually sets by midwinter and gives way around early May. In an average year the thaw lands around early May and the freeze near mid November. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. On Lac Lapointe the same rules apply, with local timing.

• Tackle & Baits

  Who may fish here is not settled in anything we hold. There is no mapped parking or launch close by, which usually means walking in. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Check whether a boat is allowed before you tow one. Keep proof of licence with you rather than in the car. Failing this one, try Lac Long, 0.6 km away. Rules at Lac Lapointe are worth checking on the day.