Lac a Foin Fishing near Labelle, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac a Foin is a Laurentides water, in Quebec. The surroundings are rolling bush. Labelle is the closest place, 10 km off. Then Mont-Tremblant, 14 km, and Rivière-Rouge, 21 km. Within a short drive: Lac du Loup about 0.7 km, Lac de la Grosse Roche just 1 km, Lac Charbonneau about 1.8 km, Lac Core just 3.1 km and Lac Laplante about 3.2 km. This one is safely inside the county line.

• Where to Fish on Lac a Foin

  Depth went unrecorded, which puts the reading back on you. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Open biodiversity records for Laurentides list pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass, yellow perch, brook trout and rock bass. The list covers the county rather than this water alone, so treat it as a guide. Treat Lac a Foin as a water to read rather than to cover.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The seasonal spread runs -15°C to 18°C. Hard water is a season in its own right here. The lid arrives early and lasts until roughly late April. The season between ice runs from about late April to late November. Reckon on open water from spring through to late autumn, with May and June the strongest. Anyone fishing Lac a Foin regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access status is simply unknown for this water. There is no mapped parking or launch nearby, which keeps numbers down. Largemouth respond to soft plastics tight to cover; go weedless where the growth is heavy. Sort the permit out before you load the car. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. Lac du Loup, 0.7 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Check the position on Lac a Foin before loading the car.