QUEBEC FISHING MAP — RIVERS, LAKES & THE ST. LAWRENCE
Fishing Hot Spots
From Montreal's Lac Saint-Louis and the Richelieu River, down the St. Lawrence past Lac Saint-Pierre, Trois-Rivières and Quebec City to Charlevoix and Tadoussac, up the Saguenay Fjord to Lac Saint-Jean, and out along the North Shore's salmon rivers to Sept-Îles and Havre-Saint-Pierre, plus the big walleye reservoirs of the Outaouais. Tap any star or dot to see what it is and what to fish there.
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Parks & rules
Safety: these are planning references. Use current official charts, weather and marine alerts and proper safety equipment before heading out.
Lake guides for this map
Month-by-month patterns, fish, ramps and rules for each water:
Fishing Hot Spots by area
Rivers, lakes and marinas. Tap one to fly to it on the map.
Salmon rivers, walleye lakes and the mighty St. Lawrence
Quebec has some of the most famous Atlantic salmon rivers in the world, like the Moisie, the Matane and the Sainte-Marguerite, fished with a fly from the same pools for over a century. Lac Saint-Jean is home to the ouananiche, a landlocked salmon, and the Saguenay Fjord is so deep and salty that in winter an ice-fishing village goes up at La Baie to catch cod, redfish and Greenland halibut.
Near Montreal, the St. Lawrence, Lac Saint-Louis, Lac des Deux Montagnes and the Richelieu River hold walleye, northern pike, bass and muskie, and the striped bass is back in the river around Quebec City. Farther north, the Baskatong and Gouin reservoirs are walleye and pike country, reached through outfitters.
Rules: you need a Quebec sport fishing licence, and salmon fishing also needs a daily river access right from the local ZEC or outfitter. Seasons and limits change by fishing zone, and yellow perch fishing in Lac Saint-Pierre has been closed since 2012. Check the Quebec sport fishing regulations before you go.
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Map sources & checks
- Coverage
- Quebec. Mapped features come from public datasets and can be incomplete or out of date: a missing reef, ramp or wreck does not mean it is not there.
- Map data
- OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) — retrieved October 7, 2026
- World Database on Protected Areas (UNEP-WCMC & IUCN), Protected Planet — retrieved October 7, 2026 (license: Protected Planet terms)
- Hot spots
- 33 hot spots, each with its own source (tap any star to see it): OpenStreetMap marina or harbor (10), point on an OpenStreetMap river or lake line (general location) (9), OpenStreetMap boat ramp (7), OpenStreetMap/Nominatim named place (general position, not a pinpoint) (5), OpenStreetMap mapped feature (2).
- Protected areas
- 26 protected areas from the official list above, drawn in dashed red. Fishing rules inside them are set by the managing agency; check with them before you fish.
- Chart layers (Charts button)
- GEBCO ocean depth and OpenSeaMap buoys, lights and markers. GEBCO and OpenSeaMap are useful references, not official navigation charts.
- Weather & tides
- See Weather & Tides for this area: Open-Meteo weather and marine models. Tides here are estimated from a global sea-level model, not official tide tables.
- Dates
- This page last updated October 15, 2026. Each dataset keeps its own retrieval date, shown above.
⚠️ Planning reference only, not for navigation. Use current official charts, weather and marine alerts, and proper safety gear before heading out.
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