Fishing at Lac Pour Toujours, Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec

• Overview

  Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean in Quebec is where Lac Pour Toujours sits. This is spruce and muskeg country. Surface area runs to about 3 hectares — small enough to read in one session. It is a small entry by Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean standards. Some 55 km away sits Labrecque, the nearest settlement. L'Ascension-de-Notre-Seigneur is 57 km away, with Sainte-Monique at 59 km. It sits well inside its county, with no border complications.

• Where to Fish on Lac Pour Toujours

  Our records carry no depth, so judge it from the bank. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Fish documented in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean include northern pike, Atlantic salmon, lake whitefish and fallfish. Protected fish appear in the records for this area, so treat the list as information, not an invitation. Fish Lac Pour Toujours to its features, not to its size.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Between January at about -18°C and July at about 16°C, the water has a wide range to work through. Little of the calendar is open water, so timing counts for everything. Winter locks it down, and early May brings it back. Climate averages put the opening at about early May and the closing near mid November. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. Anyone fishing Lac Pour Toujours regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  The access position is unclear from public sources. There is no mapped parking or launch close by, which usually means walking in. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Parking is often the real limit rather than the bank itself. Signs go up and come down, so check on the day. Lac des Bohemes sits 0.7 km off and takes the overflow. Confirm access to Lac Pour Toujours locally before you travel.