Fishing at Lac Trepot, Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac Trepot sits in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, out in Quebec. Country round the bank runs to boreal forest. Normandin sits 84 km from the bank. Albanel lies 87 km off, Chibougamau another 100 km. Near neighbours include: Lac Nonza the better part of 0.4 km, Lac Thomasse within 1.2 km, Lac de la Fosse the better part of 1.7 km, Lac Cabidos within 2 km and Lac Lantan the better part of 2 km. The county line is nowhere near, so one local authority covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Lac Trepot

  There is no published depth for this one, so start shallow and work out. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. Records held for Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean cover northern pike, Atlantic salmon and lake whitefish. Protected fish appear in the records for this area, so treat the list as information, not an invitation. At Lac Trepot the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warm month here averages 16°C; the cold one sits at -19°C. Winter owns most of the year at this latitude. Count on hard cover from midwinter, and open water from early May. The lid tends to go about early May and return around mid November. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. That is the shape of the year on Lac Trepot.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. No car park, ramp or path is recorded within easy reach of the shore. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Look for a notice board at the entrance. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. Lac Nonza sits 0.4 km off and takes the overflow. What applies at Lac Trepot may have changed since it was mapped.