Lac Baptiste Fishing Guide, Laurentides, Quebec

• Overview

  You will find Lac Baptiste in Laurentides, Quebec. Elevation runs to 281 metres. Surface area runs to about 9 hectares — small enough to read in one session. Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard is the closest place, 16 km off. Morin-Heights lies 17 km off, Brownsburg-Chatham another 19 km. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Lac Baptiste

  We hold no survey for this water; read the slope of the shoreline instead. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Across Laurentides, recorded fish include pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass and yellow perch. These are county-wide records, so not all of them will be in this water. Lac Baptiste gives up more to patience than to distance.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July runs about 18°C on average, January about -13°C. Winter puts a hard lid on this one. Winter locks it down, and late April brings it back. Open water usually runs from late April until about late November. Late spring and early autumn carry the year between them. Plan around that when you fish Lac Baptiste.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. We find no slipway, car park or made path within a short radius, so treat access as rough. A small crankbait along the drop and a worm in the thick stuff cover the bass. Where the road in crosses private land, ask first. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. Lac Merci at 0.7 km is the sensible second choice. Check the position on Lac Baptiste before loading the car.