Fishing Lac Yves in Côte-Nord, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac Yves lies in Côte-Nord, Quebec. It sits at 478 metres above sea level. The water measures roughly 5 hectares, so nothing here is far from anything else. It is one of the smaller waters we list in Côte-Nord. Start from Godefroy, 132 km down the road. Saguenay sits 298 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. Rules here are straightforward: one set of provincial rules.

• Where to Fish on Lac Yves

  There is no recorded depth, so work from what you can see. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. The shallow end warms first and pulls fish in ahead of the rest. Records held for Côte-Nord cover logperch. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Lac Yves gives up its fish to patience rather than distance.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Temperature averages peak at 15°C in July and bottom out at -20°C in January. Ice holds for a long stretch, so the open weeks matter more here than further south. The lid usually sets by midwinter and gives way around mid May. Expect the water usable from around mid May until roughly early November. Just after the ice goes and just before it returns, the fishing lifts. Anyone fishing Lac Yves regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  The paperwork position is blank for this one. There is no mapped parking or launch nearby, which keeps numbers down. Perch take small lures and worms fished near the bottom close to structure. Where the road in crosses private land, ask first. Signs go up and come down, so check on the day. For a change of water, Lac Marc is 0.9 km distant. Where Lac Yves is concerned, a local answer beats a written one.