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

• Overview

  Look for Lac Patte in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec. Height above sea level is 701 metres. It covers about 4 hectares, so this is small water you can walk round in under an hour. Our Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean list holds plenty of bigger water. Saint-Fulgence lies 52 km from the water. Saguenay is the closest city, 62 km away. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.

• Where to Fish on Lac Patte

  No chart reached our records; the first cast is your sounding. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Across Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, recorded fish include northern pike, Atlantic salmon and lake whitefish. Protected fish appear in the records for this area, so treat the list as information, not an invitation. Take Lac Patte a stretch at a time.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages move between -19°C in January and 15°C in July. A short, intense season is the rule this far north. The lid usually goes in mid May, which opens the strongest weeks of the year. The season between ice runs from about mid May to early November. The open run goes from the thaw to the freeze, and April through October covers most of it. The season on Lac Patte rarely departs from it.

• Tackle & Baits

  Public sources are silent on who controls the bank. No built facilities appear in mapping around this water. A wire trace and a big bright lure handle the pike; deep water asks for a heavier spoon. Read any posted signs at the access point rather than assuming. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. Should this one be busy, Lac aux Foins is 0.4 km off. Ask locally about Lac Patte if anything is unclear.