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

• Overview

  Lac Rainsart lies in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec. This is spruce and muskeg country. At 9 hectares it is the sort of place you fish for an evening rather than a day. You are 39 km from Normandin. The nearest city of size is Saguenay, 153 km away. Other water within reach: Lac Izeure at about 1 km, Lac Lubine a shade over 1.8 km, Lac Patrin at about 1.8 km, Lac Oculus a shade over 2.1 km and Lac Ciboure at about 2.2 km. It sits well inside its county, with no border complications.

• Where to Fish on Lac Rainsart

  There is no recorded depth, so work from what you can see. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Survey and observation records for 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. The near bank of Lac Rainsart is often the one people ignore.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Climate records put July near 16°C and January near -18°C. Cold dominates the year and the fishing works around it. Count the season from break-up, usually early May. Break-up near early May, freeze-up near mid November: that is the shape of an average year. Right after break-up, and again as the nights sharpen, is when to go. That shapes the year on Lac Rainsart.

• Tackle & Baits

  Who may fish here is not settled in anything we hold. Mapping is blank for access, so scout the approach before committing the car. 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. Barbless rules turn up on managed water more often than not. Should this one be busy, Lac Izeure is 1 km off. None of that is settled for Lac Rainsart in what we hold.