Lac Maillot Fishing Guide, Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec

• Overview

  Set in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec, this is Lac Maillot. The country here is spruce and muskeg. At about 16 hectares, a day is enough to walk the shoreline properly. About 2.3 km of bank, so nothing stays unexplored for long. The town to know is Pont Rouge, 34 km out. The big place round here is Saguenay, 96 km distant. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Lac Maillot

  Depth is not on record here, so the bank has to tell you. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Open biodiversity records for Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean list northern pike, Atlantic salmon, lake whitefish and fallfish. Some of the species recorded here are protected or tightly regulated, so check what may be targeted before you fish. Work Lac Maillot in sections rather than trying to cover it.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Seasonal averages run from -19°C in January up to 17°C in July. The window is narrow, and fish feed hard while it lasts. Once it clears, about early May, the fishing comes on quickly. Climate averages put the opening at about early May and the closing near mid November. The open run goes from the thaw to the freeze, and April through October covers most of it. Keep it in mind when planning a trip to Lac Maillot.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access status is simply unknown for this water. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Parking space is the usual limit rather than the bank itself. Close seasons apply to some species and not others. For a change of water, Lac Lepage is 0.8 km distant. Ask locally about Lac Maillot if anything is unclear.