Lac Tasikutaaraaluk in Nord-du-Québec: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Lac Tasikutaaraaluk lies in Nord-du-Québec, Quebec. Beyond the shoreline you have northern bush. This is big water, about 14.63 sq km, and in a wind it behaves like a small sea. Some 64 km of shoreline means conditions can differ from one end to the other. Few waters listed in Nord-du-Québec are bigger. The town to know is Inukjuak, 95 km out. Saguenay sits 1197 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. It sits well inside its county, with no border complications.

• Where to Fish on Lac Tasikutaaraaluk

  We hold no survey for this water; read the slope of the shoreline instead. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Reported across Nord-du-Québec: Arctic charr, brook trout, lake trout, lake whitefish and cisco. County records show what lives in the area; the local agency holds the water-by-water list. At Lac Tasikutaaraaluk the water rewards a slow, careful approach.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Temperature averages peak at 12°C in July and bottom out at -24°C in February. This far north the hard season runs and runs. Break-up comes around early June, and the run that follows is short and strong. Ice usually gives way near early June, and forms again about early November. The strongest runs come at either end of the open season. Plan any trip to Lac Tasikutaaraaluk around it.

• Tackle & Baits

  No public source sets out the position on this bank. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. There is no recorded infrastructure here; expect to find your own way in. Trout here take small spinners, spoons and, where fly water allows, a nymph or dry. Sort the permit out before you load the car. Close seasons apply to some species and not others. Should this one be busy, Lac Dalinet is 7.1 km off. None of that is settled for Lac Tasikutaaraaluk in what we hold.