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Best landlocked salmon lakes in Québec

431 Québec waters hold landlocked salmon, 431 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. Lake-dwelling Atlantic salmon that lives and dies by the smelt run. Ice-out surface fishing at its finest.

1. Lac Témiscouata — 245 ft max · survey depth data · Muskellunge, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Brook Trout
2. Lac Kénogami — 336 ft max · survey depth data · Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon
3. Lac Long — 80 ft max · survey depth data · Muskellunge, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Brook Trout
4. Lac Matapédia — 139 ft max · survey depth data · Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon
5. Lac Labelle — 213 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike, Channel Catfish
6. Grand lac Squatec — 155 ft max · survey depth data · Muskellunge, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Brook Trout
7. Lac Gagnon — 230 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike, Channel Catfish
8. Grand lac Nominingue — 121 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch
9. Lac Pohénégamook — 135 ft max · survey depth data · Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon
10. Lac Arthur — 158 ft max · survey depth data · Lake Trout, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon, Lake Whitefish
11. Lac aux Grandes Pointes — 197 ft max · survey depth data · Walleye, Northern Pike, Lake Trout, Brook Trout
12. Grand lac Touradi — 66 ft max · survey depth data · Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Brook Trout
13. Réservoir aux Sables — 131 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike, Channel Catfish
14. Lac du Sourd — 160 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike, Channel Catfish
15. Lac Saint-Joseph — 123 ft max · survey depth data · Walleye, Northern Pike, Muskellunge, Yellow Perch
16. Lac Montjoie — 394 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike, Channel Catfish
17. Lac Rond — 197 ft max · survey depth data · Lake Trout, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon, Lake Whitefish
18. Lac Tousignant — 120 ft max · survey depth data · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout
19. Lac de l'Écluse — 140 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike
20. Lac des Sept Frères — 131 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch
21. Lac Simard — 180 ft max · survey depth data · Lake Trout, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon, Lake Whitefish
22. Lac Chaud — 125 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch
23. Lac Laval — 224 ft max · survey depth data · Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Brook Trout
24. Lac La Chesnaye — 149 ft max · survey depth data · Northern Pike, Striped Bass, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout
25. Lac des Mauves — 200 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike, Channel Catfish

…plus 406 more Québec waters holding landlocked salmon.

When to fish landlocked salmon in Québec

• Spring 1–15 ft — The legendary ice-out bite: salmon follow spawning smelt to tributary mouths and windblown shorelines, right on the surface.
• Summer 25–60 ft — Salmon hold just above the thermocline with the smelt schools — depth control decides the day.
• Fall 5–30 ft — Turnover scatters bait and salmon shallow; spawners stage off tributary mouths, hot-tempered and territorial.
• Winter 10–40 ft — Where winter seasons allow, salmon cruise for smelt under the ice — sewn bait near a drop is the classic set.

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