Lac Tonnac Fishing Guide, Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac Tonnac sits in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, out in Quebec. The bank is 277 metres above sea level. The water measures roughly 2 hectares, so nothing here is far from anything else. Most waters listed here for Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean are larger. Normandin sits 22 km from here and is the nearest stop. The nearest city of size is Saguenay, 133 km away. The county line is nowhere near, so one local authority covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Lac Tonnac

  No depth figure has reached our records, which makes a plummet useful. 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. Records held for Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean cover northern pike, Atlantic salmon, lake whitefish and fallfish. Several of these carry legal protection or closed seasons; the rulebook comes before the rod. At Lac Tonnac the water rewards a slow, careful approach.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Between January at about -18°C and July at about 17°C, the water has a wide range to work through. Open water is the exception rather than the rule here. Once it clears, about early May, the fishing comes on quickly. Ice clears near early May and comes back about mid November in a typical year. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. On Lac Tonnac that shapes the whole year.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. There is no mapped parking or launch nearby, which keeps numbers down. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Parking space is the usual limit rather than the bank itself. Close seasons apply to some species and not others. The nearest alternative is Lac a la Truite, 0.9 km out. Ask locally about Lac Tonnac if anything is unclear.