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

• Overview

  Lac Quessy is a Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean water, in Quebec. The ground round it is northern bush. Surface area runs to about 8 hectares — small enough to read in one session. It is high ground by Quebec standards. Saint-Fulgence is the closest place, 48 km off. For a city, Saguenay is 60 km off. Other water within reach: Lac Index within 0.6 km, Lac Chausson after 0.6 km, Lac a l'Oeil within 1.5 km, Lac du Forgeron after 1.7 km and Lac Suivant within 2.1 km. No border sits close enough to matter.

• Where to Fish on Lac Quessy

  Depth is not on record here, which means reading the ground instead. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Survey and observation records for Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean include northern pike, Atlantic salmon, lake whitefish and fallfish. Some of the species recorded here are protected or tightly regulated, so check what may be targeted before you fish. Lac Quessy responds to conditions more than to tactics.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Seasonal averages run from -19°C in January up to 15°C in July. The ice season is long here and the open one short. Winter fishing happens on the ice here, with open water back around mid May. The lid tends to go about mid May and return around early November. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. Anyone fishing Lac Quessy regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether the bank is open is not something our records settle. No car park, ramp or path is recorded within easy reach of the shore. A wire trace and a big bright lure handle the pike; deep water asks for a heavier spoon. Parking space is the usual limit rather than the bank itself. Rules for boats are stricter than rules for the bank in many places. If the gate is shut, Lac Index at 0.6 km is the nearest alternative. None of that is settled for Lac Quessy in what we hold.