Fishing at Etang Gilday, Estrie, Quebec

• Overview

  This water sits in Estrie, Quebec. What surrounds it is lake country bush. The town to know is Lac-Brome, 3.9 km out. The nearest city of size is Sherbrooke, 53 km away. Near neighbours: Etang Chalmers roughly 0.4 km, Etang du Moulin 3.8 km away, Lac Beaver roughly 3.8 km, Etang Partridge-Taylor 4.7 km away and Etang Sally roughly 4.9 km. There is no boundary nearby to worry about.

• Where to Fish on Etang Gilday

  No chart reached our records; the first cast is your sounding. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. This is a lake, so the margins and the first drop matter most. Survey and observation records for Estrie include rainbow trout, white sucker, pumpkinseed, brook trout and rainbow smelt. What holds for the county may not hold for this water. At Etang Gilday light and wind decide more than tackle does.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The seasonal spread runs -10°C to 19°C. Cold winters and warm summers give a wide working range. Ice-out usually falls in mid April, and the weeks after it fish hardest. Expect the water usable from around mid April until roughly early December. The open run goes from the thaw to the freeze, and April through October covers most of it. That is the shape of the year on Etang Gilday.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. Nothing in the way of made access shows up nearby: no ramp, no car park, no path. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. A landowner's word beats anything printed elsewhere. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. For a change of water, Etang Chalmers is 0.4 km distant. Check the position at Etang Gilday before loading the car.