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

• Overview

  Set in Nord-du-Québec, Lac Turbar is a Quebec water. It stands 437 metres above sea level. This is big water, about 11.12 sq km, and in a wind it behaves like a small sea. You have roughly 75 km of edge to choose from, which rewards a scouting trip. Size puts it in the front rank of our Nord-du-Québec list. Head to Kuujjuaq, 388 km away, for anything you forgot. Then Sanikiluaq, 444 km, and Labrador City, 448 km. Rules here are straightforward: one set of provincial rules.

• Where to Fish on Lac Turbar

  Without a survey to go on, judge depth from how the bank falls away. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Records held for Nord-du-Québec cover Arctic charr, brook trout and lake trout. Records at county level tell you what is around, not what is stocked here. On Lac Turbar the quiet end is the one worth the extra effort.

• Seasonal Patterns

  In an average year July sits at 13°C and January at -24°C. Cold dominates the year and the fishing works around it. Count the season from break-up, usually late May. Averages place the thaw at late May and the freeze at late October. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. Anyone fishing Lac Turbar regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  Who may fish here is not settled in anything we hold. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. Light line and small metal for the trout; a fly rod earns its place on calm evenings. Some banks are open only from a marked point. Some water is controlled locally without a sign saying so. Lac Wasatimis sits 16 km off and takes the overflow. What applies at Lac Turbar may have changed since it was mapped.