Lac Serin, Quebec: Fishing Spots and Seasons

• Overview

  Look for Lac Serin in Nord-du-Québec, Quebec. It sits in boreal forest. This is big water, about 20.12 sq km, and in a wind it behaves like a small sea. With about 72 km of shoreline, local advice saves a lot of walking. Size puts it in the front rank of our Nord-du-Québec list. Puvirnituq lies 235 km from the water. Saguenay is the closest city, 1182 km away. The nearest edge is a long way off, so local rules apply throughout.

• Where to Fish on Lac Serin

  Depth went unrecorded, which puts the reading back on you. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. County-wide records name Arctic charr, brook trout, lake trout and lake whitefish. What holds for the county may not hold for this water. The shape of Lac Serin rewards a slow walk along one bank.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warmest month averages 12°C, the coldest about -24°C. Winter runs most of the calendar, and everything worth doing happens in the gap. After early June the shallows warm and the fish move up. The lid tends to go about early June and return around late October. Reckon on open water from spring through to late autumn, with May and June the strongest. Lac Serin runs to that rhythm year in and year out.

• Tackle & Baits

  Ownership and access are not documented in what we hold. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. No launch point is recorded nearby, so this is a bank water unless you carry a boat in. For the trout, small spinners and a box of nymphs cover both approaches. Bank access can be seasonal on ground like this. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. Lac Tassialouc, 18 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Confirm access to Lac Serin locally before you travel.