Fishing Lac Plaimbois in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec

• Overview

  Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec, is where Lac Plaimbois sits. Country round the bank runs to northern bush. At about 11 hectares, a day is enough to walk the shoreline properly. Roughly 1.7 km of bank means you can walk to a fresh area when one goes quiet. For supplies, Normandin is 76 km out. Albanel is 81 km and Saint-Félicien 89 km. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Lac Plaimbois

  Without a survey to go on, judge depth from how the bank falls away. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. The shallow end warms first and pulls fish in ahead of the rest. Records held for Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean cover 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. At Lac Plaimbois light and wind decide more than tackle does.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The seasonal spread runs -18°C to 16°C. Winter runs most of the calendar, and everything worth doing happens in the gap. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about early May. Ice clears near early May and comes back about mid November in a typical year. The middle of summer slows a little, with dawn and dusk carrying it. Lac Plaimbois runs to that rhythm year in and year out.

• Tackle & Baits

  No access rule appears in what we hold. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. No built facilities appear in mapping around this water. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Check locally before you travel, because a wasted drive is a long one. Some ground is open by custom rather than by right, so tread carefully. Lac Hugron sits 1 km off and takes the overflow. Rules at Lac Plaimbois are worth checking on the day.