Fishing at Lac Mordeux, Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec

• Overview

  The Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean entry here is Lac Mordeux, in Quebec. Land around it is taiga. This is a pocket water of some 4 hectares, and every part of it is reachable from the bank. On size it sits at the modest end of our Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean list. 48 km away sits Pont Rouge, the nearest town. The big place round here is Saguenay, 104 km distant. There is no boundary nearby to worry about.

• Where to Fish on Lac Mordeux

  Depth figures are not published for this one. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Fish documented in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean include northern pike, Atlantic salmon and lake whitefish. Several of these carry legal protection or closed seasons; the rulebook comes before the rod. At Lac Mordeux the water rewards a slow, careful approach.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Expect July to average close to 16°C, with January the cold end at about -19°C. The fishing year opens late and shuts early. Ice-out usually falls in early May, and the weeks after it fish hardest. 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. Anyone fishing Lac Mordeux regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  The paperwork position is blank for this one. There is no mapped parking or launch nearby, which keeps numbers down. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Rules for this water may differ from the county norm. Where tickets apply, they are sold in the nearest town rather than on the bank. Lac Clair at 2 km is the sensible second choice. Treat Lac Mordeux as unsettled until someone local tells you otherwise.