Fishing at Sixieme Lac, Côte-Nord, Quebec

• Overview

  Sixieme Lac belongs to Côte-Nord, Quebec. The surroundings are mixed forest. By elevation it sits in the lower part of our Quebec listings. Baie-Comeau is the closest place, 34 km off. It is 265 km to Saguenay, the nearest city. What else is close: Quatrieme Lac just 0.9 km, Cinquieme Lac 0.9 km away, Lac Long just 1.6 km, Dixieme Lac 1.7 km away and Lac a Michel just 2.6 km. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Sixieme Lac

  No chart reached our records; the first cast is your sounding. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Records held for Côte-Nord cover logperch. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. The shape of Sixieme Lac decides where the fish sit.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warm month here averages 16°C; the cold one sits at -14°C. A hard winter is normal, and the thaw brings a strong few weeks. Ice-out usually falls in early May, and the weeks after it fish hardest. Break-up near early May, freeze-up near mid November: that is the shape of an average year. June through September is the settled part of the year, with the shoulders busier for fish. On Sixieme Lac that shapes the whole year.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. Public mapping records no formal access here, so plan for a walk and soft ground. Perch take small lures and worms fished near the bottom close to structure. Parking space is the usual limit rather than the bank itself. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. Quatrieme Lac, 0.9 km away, makes the obvious fallback. What applies at Sixieme Lac may have changed since it was mapped.