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

• Overview

  Lac Ridechot sits within Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean in Quebec. It sits at 299 metres above sea level. With some 18 hectares of water, there is room for a boat but no need of one. The edge runs 3.0 km or so, easy to work in an afternoon. The closest town, Normandin, is 73 km away. For a city, Saguenay is 189 km off. This one is safely inside the county line.

• Where to Fish on Lac Ridechot

  Without a survey to go on, judge depth from how the bank falls away. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Open biodiversity records for Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean list 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. Take Lac Ridechot a stretch at a time.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The year swings from about -19°C in January to roughly 16°C in July. Little of the calendar is open water, so timing counts for everything. Look for the thaw near early May; the fishing lifts straight after. Expect the water usable from around early May until roughly mid November. Fishing peaks soon after break-up and again before the cold returns. Lac Ridechot fishes to that pattern most years.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. A wire trace and a big bright lure handle the pike; deep water asks for a heavier spoon. Bank access can be seasonal on ground like this. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. Lac Boreme at 1.5 km is the sensible second choice. Confirm access to Lac Ridechot locally before you travel.