Petit lac Peacock Fishing in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec

• Overview

  Petit lac Peacock is an Abitibi-Témiscamingue water, Quebec side. The country round it is taiga from end to end. It measures about 11 hectares, which is a comfortable size for bank fishing. Shoreline comes to about 1.5 km, small enough to learn in a day. Macamic is the closest place, 59 km off. La Sarre is 66 km and Amos 71 km. It lies deep inside the county rather than near an edge.

• Where to Fish on Petit lac Peacock

  Open data we checked carries no depth for this water. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. Public occurrence data for Abitibi-Témiscamingue names northern pike, yellow perch, walleye and white sucker. County data is a starting point rather than a guarantee. Fish Petit lac Peacock to its features, not to its size.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Typical July readings run about 16°C; by January the average is down near -19°C. Long winters and short summers set the pattern. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about early May. Break-up near early May, freeze-up near mid November: that is the shape of an average year. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. Anyone fishing Petit lac Peacock regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing in our records says who may fish here. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. There is no mapped parking or launch close by, which usually means walking in. A wire trace and a big bright lure handle the pike; deep water asks for a heavier spoon. A landowner's word beats anything printed elsewhere. Keep proof of licence with you rather than in the car. The nearest alternative is Lac Peacock, 1.6 km out. Nothing here settles the position at Petit lac Peacock for certain.