Lac Qattaujaaluttalik Fishing Guide, Nord-du-Québec, Quebec

• Overview

  Set in Nord-du-Québec, Lac Qattaujaaluttalik is a Quebec water. The surface lies 386 metres up. Roughly 50 hectares: a morning covers one end, an afternoon the other. A shoreline of some 3.7 km keeps the choices simple. Salluit is the closest town at 10 km. Kinngait lies 239 km off, Puvirnituq another 251 km. It sits well inside the county, so one set of rules covers it.

• Where to Fish on Lac Qattaujaaluttalik

  There is no published depth for this one, so start shallow and work out. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Records held for Nord-du-Québec cover Arctic charr, brook trout, lake trout and lake whitefish. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Read Lac Qattaujaaluttalik for ten minutes before the first cast goes out.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Average temperature peaks around 9°C in July and bottoms out near -26°C in January. Long winters and short summers set the pattern. Count on hard cover from midwinter, and open water from late June. Climate averages put the opening at about late June and the closing near early October. The open run goes from the thaw to the freeze, and April through October covers most of it. Lac Qattaujaaluttalik runs to that rhythm year in and year out.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether the bank is open is not something our records settle. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. Access points are not mapped for this water, which suits people who like quiet. Trout here take small spinners, spoons and, where fly water allows, a nymph or dry. Gates get locked out of season on water like this. Rules for boats are stricter than rules for the bank in many places. Lac Qikirtalik, 1.5 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Nothing on Lac Qattaujaaluttalik should be assumed from this page alone.