Lac Leon, Quebec: Fishing Spots and Seasons

• Overview

  This water sits in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec. The surface lies 369 metres up. Start from Labrecque, 30 km down the road. Beyond it, Saint-Ambroise at 35 km and L'Ascension-de-Notre-Seigneur at 36 km. Also on the doorstep: Lac Melanie roughly 0.2 km, Lac Cecile a shade over 0.5 km, Lac Nere roughly 0.8 km, Petit lac aux Visons a shade over 1.4 km and Lac Rosaire roughly 1.5 km. It sits well inside the county, so one set of rules covers it.

• Where to Fish on Lac Leon

  Depth figures are not published for this one. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. Fish documented in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean include northern pike, Atlantic salmon, lake whitefish and fallfish. Several of these carry legal protection or closed seasons; the rulebook comes before the rod. On Lac Leon that means starting tight and working out.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Typical July readings run about 16°C; by January the average is down near -18°C. This is a two-season water: locked, then wide open. Firm cover through the cold months, then open water from early May. From about early May to around mid November, expect open water on the long-run figures. Late spring and early autumn carry the year between them. Anyone fishing Lac Leon regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  No access rule appears in what we hold. A made slipway is 1.2 km from here, which settles the boat question. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Rules for this water may differ from the county norm. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. For a change of water, Lac Melanie is 0.2 km distant. Rules at Lac Leon are worth checking on the day.