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Well it took some digging, and a bilingual fiance's help, but I've got it. There is Pike, SM Bass, Brook Trout and......Lake Charr......? Do you fish those like a Lake Trout ?

Char are pretty much the same animal as Lake trout, one has a forked tail and one is square. At least that was how it was out in BC.

Guy

steadyeddy wrote:Lake Charr......? Do you fish those like a Lake Trout ?

Quebec Red.....no??

DS

Quebec Red = Speckled Trout...

Lake Char... I'm assuming it's landlock salmon or Ouananiche they'd have in there.

It's a tough lake to get too... or at least it was when I went but then again that was many years ago.

I was there last summer and the roads were in rough shape. I imagine this time of year they will be horrible. I think we are gonna attempt it. Its beautiful around there. Cheap beer around the fire...and a chance at a new species, cant beat it.

Canada is home to five species of char (also spelled charr).

Brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalus
Lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush
Bull trout, Salvelinus confluentus
Dolly varden, Salvelinus malma
Arctic char, Salvelinus alpinus

So when you see char in the Quebec fishing regs, they mean the above species. although Bull Trout and Dolly Varden are strictly western fish. When they say trout, they mean brown trout, which is the only true "trout" in Quebec.

When they say the limit for char is 10, thats the species above.
When they say the limit for trout is 5, that's rainbows.

Quebec Reds are part of a landlocked subspecies of Arctic char.

my uncle at one point in time had a cottage that lake he used to troll on the edge of the drop off for lake trout in the spring and would throw rapala's in the shallower bays for pike. According to him it is fairly good for lake trout and pike and it's also quite deep.

if it's the Lac Serpant near Notre Dame Du Laus then yeah they mean lake trout when talking about char.


I have friends who have cottages on the lake, best fishing for lakers is done near the cliff.


There's a public boat launch.


Good luck!!



Also forgot another Char, Splake

Maple wrote: Quebec Reds are part of a landlocked subspecies of Arctic char.

Thanks...........there was a bit of an "in depth" discussion about Quebec Reds in here last year. I was just trying to stir the pot as it were

Splake = test tube baby

DS