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Best goldeye lakes in Québec

11 Québec waters hold goldeye, 11 mapped with real state-agency depth surveys. Ranked below by size and depth-data quality — open any water to see exactly where to fish it: depth contours, scored spots with plain-English reasons, seasonal windows and bait picks. The prairie's silver surface-feeder — a big-eyed, low-light specialist of turbid rivers, famous on the Red, that hits flies, spinners and everything at dusk.

1. Lac Lemoine — 169 ft max · survey depth data · Walleye, Sauger, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch
2. Lac Opasatica — 197 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Sauger, Northern Pike
3. Lac Preissac — 54 ft max · survey depth data · Walleye, Sauger, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch
4. Lac De Montigny — 15 ft max · survey depth data · Walleye, Sauger, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch
5. Lac Dufault — 63 ft max · survey depth data · Walleye, Sauger, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch
6. Lac Rouyn — 25 ft max · survey depth data · Walleye, Sauger, Northern Pike, Rainbow Trout
7. Lac Pelletier — 17 ft max · survey depth data · Walleye, Sauger, Northern Pike, Rainbow Trout
8. Lac Osisko (no 2) — 26 ft max · survey depth data · Walleye, Sauger, Northern Pike, Rainbow Trout
9. Petit lac Dufresnoy — 23 ft max · survey depth data · Walleye, Sauger, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch
10. Lac Noranda — 7 ft max · survey depth data · Walleye, Sauger, Northern Pike, Rainbow Trout
11. Lac Vose — 50 ft max · survey depth data · Walleye, Sauger, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch

When to fish goldeye in Québec

• Spring 3–10 ft — Post-winter schools gather in warming backwaters, tributary mouths and slack seams off the main current.
• Summer 2–10 ft — Evening insect hatches bring whole schools to the surface along current seams and eddy lines — fast, unfussy strikes.
• Fall 5–15 ft — Schools slide to deeper seams and eddy pockets, still eating anything small that drifts past.
• Winter 10–25 ft — Wintering schools hold in the deepest river holes — a light jig tipped with a minnow piece, fished slow.

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Goldeye elsewhere: North Dakota