Petit lac Rina Fishing Guide, Côte-Nord, Quebec

• Overview

  Set in Côte-Nord, Quebec, this is Petit lac Rina. The land about it is spruce and muskeg. This is a pocket water of some 2 hectares, and every part of it is reachable from the bank. On size it sits at the modest end of our Côte-Nord list. Forestville sits 79 km from here and is the nearest stop. Then Les Escoumins, 98 km, and Betsiamites, 99 km. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Petit lac Rina

  Depth is unmeasured here, so let the shoreline guide you. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. Survey and observation records for Côte-Nord include logperch. The county figures include rivers and lakes alike. On Petit lac Rina the first feature you find is usually worth a session.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Average temperature peaks around 16°C in July and bottoms out near -18°C in January. The window is narrow, and fish feed hard while it lasts. Winter fishing happens on the ice here, with open water back around early May. Break-up near early May, freeze-up near mid November: that is the shape of an average year. The weeks after the thaw and the ones before the freeze are the strongest. That is the shape of the year on Petit lac Rina.

• Tackle & Baits

  Public sources are silent on who controls the bank. There is no mapped parking or launch close by, which usually means walking in. For the perch, a small jig tipped with worm, dropped along the edges, is hard to beat. Check whether a boat is allowed before you tow one. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. If the gate is shut, Lac Jaguar at 0.8 km is the nearest alternative. None of that is settled for Petit lac Rina in what we hold.