Lac Star Fishing near Notre-Dame-du-Lac, Quebec

• Overview

  Quebec holds Lac Star, in Abitibi-Témiscamingue. Height above sea level is 268 metres. With some 50 hectares of water, there is room for a boat but no need of one. You are looking at roughly 8.2 km of shoreline, with plenty of water between access points. The nearest place of any size is Notre-Dame-du-Lac, 18 km away. It is 154 km to Greater Sudbury, the nearest city. No boundary runs near, so the local rules hold throughout.

• Where to Fish on Lac Star

  No depth figure has reached our records, which makes a plummet useful. The shallow end warms first and pulls fish in ahead of the rest. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Public occurrence data for Abitibi-Témiscamingue names northern pike, yellow perch and walleye. The county list is broader than any single water. Read Lac Star before you fish it and the day goes better.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warm month here averages 18°C; the cold one sits at -14°C. The year splits cleanly: hard water, then open water. The lid arrives early and lasts until roughly late April. Average temperatures cross freezing around late April in spring and again near late November in autumn. May into June fishes hardest, and September gives a second good stretch before the lid returns. Time your trip to Lac Star by conditions rather than dates.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Rules for this water may differ from the county norm. Signs go up and come down, so check on the day. Failing this one, try Lac des Aigles, 1.5 km away. Check the position at Lac Star before loading the car.