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

• Overview

  Lac Spatule is a Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean water, Quebec side. What surrounds it is spruce and muskeg. This is a pocket water of some 5 hectares, and every part of it is reachable from the bank. By elevation it is in the upper part of our Quebec listings. Some 44 km away sits Saint-Fulgence, the nearest settlement. Saguenay sits 57 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. No border sits close enough to matter.

• Where to Fish on Lac Spatule

  Without a survey to go on, judge depth from how the bank falls away. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. 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. Some of the species recorded here are protected or tightly regulated, so check what may be targeted before you fish. Read Lac Spatule for ten minutes before the first cast goes out.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Expect July to average close to 15°C, with January the cold end at about -19°C. The year here is short and sharp: a long lid, then a burst of open water. The lid arrives early and lasts until roughly mid May. In an average year the thaw lands around mid May and the freeze near early November. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. That is the shape of the year on Lac Spatule.

• Tackle & Baits

  Ownership and access are not documented in what we hold. No made access appears within a short radius, so plan to park on a verge and walk. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. A landowner's word beats anything printed elsewhere. Some water is controlled locally without a sign saying so. For a change of water, Lac de la Vierge is 1.2 km distant. None of that is settled for Lac Spatule in what we hold.