Petit lac Kikwissi in Abitibi-Témiscamingue: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Petit lac Kikwissi is set in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec. It lies 297 metres above sea level. At 23.52 sq km you are fishing a fraction of it whatever you do. Around 84 km of margin, so directions matter more than a general plan. Size puts it in the front rank of our Abitibi-Témiscamingue list. Start from Notre-Dame-du-Lac, 45 km down the road. Témiscaming is 50 km and Mattawa 70 km. Rules here are straightforward: one set of provincial rules.

• Where to Fish on Petit lac Kikwissi

  Depth is not on record here, so the bank has to tell you. This is a lake, so the margins and the first drop matter most. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Survey and observation records for Abitibi-Témiscamingue include northern pike, yellow perch, walleye, white sucker and brown bullhead. What holds for the county may not hold for this water. Petit lac Kikwissi gives up more to patience than to distance.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Long-term averages put July at about 18°C and January near -15°C. The year splits cleanly: hard water, then open water. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about late April. Averages suggest open water from about late April through to roughly late November. Early summer and early autumn carry the open-water season. That is the shape of the year on Petit lac Kikwissi.

• Tackle & Baits

  Who may fish here is not settled in anything we hold. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. For the pike, wire up and throw larger lures along the weed edges. Rules differ from one water to the next round here. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. The nearest alternative is Petit lac Irish, 2 km out. Nothing here settles the position at Petit lac Kikwissi for certain.