Fishing at Petit lac de la Peche, Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec

• Overview

  Petit lac de la Peche belongs to Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec. The ground around here is taiga. For a base, Roberval sits 39 km out. Saint-Prime is 41 km away, with Saint-Félicien at 44 km. Other water within reach: Lac de la Couenne within 0.8 km, Lac Jumeau 1.5 km, Lac du Jobber within 1.8 km, Lac an Au-Lou-Girard 2.2 km and Lac Panache within 2.4 km. The county line is nowhere near, so one local authority covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Petit lac de la Peche

  Open data we checked carries no depth for this water. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. 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. On Petit lac de la Peche the obvious spot is not always the productive one.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The range across the year is -17°C to 16°C. The ice season is long here and the open one short. Ice is part of the season here, ending near early May. Climate figures give an open season running early May to mid November. The weeks after the thaw and the ones before the freeze are the strongest. Time your trip to Petit lac de la Peche by conditions rather than dates.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. There is no mapped parking or launch nearby, which keeps numbers down. For the pike, wire up and throw larger lures along the weed edges. Check locally before you travel, because a wasted drive is a long one. Barbless rules turn up on managed water more often than not. Lac de la Couenne, 0.8 km away, makes the obvious fallback. What applies at Petit lac de la Peche may have changed since it was mapped.