Fishing at Lac Blaze, Lanaudière, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac Blaze is one of the Lanaudière listings for Quebec. It sits at 467 metres above sea level. It covers about 3 hectares, so this is small water you can walk round in under an hour. Our Lanaudière list holds plenty of bigger water. 38 km away sits Manawan, the nearest town. Saint-Louis-de-Terrebonne is the closest city, 203 km away. It sits well inside the county, so one set of rules covers it.

• Where to Fish on Lac Blaze

  No depth figure appears in our records, so the bank has to tell you. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. Survey and observation records for Lanaudière include pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass, yellow perch and rock bass. What holds for the county may not hold for this water. Lac Blaze repays a walk before the first cast.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Climate normals give 17°C for July and -16°C for January. This far north the hard season runs and runs. Winter locks it down, and early May brings it back. The open-water window runs from around early May to about mid November in an average year. The weeks after the thaw and the ones before the freeze are the strongest. Expect Lac Blaze to follow that timing.

• Tackle & Baits

  Public sources are silent on who controls the bank. There is no recorded infrastructure here; expect to find your own way in. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Sort the permit out before you load the car. Close seasons apply to some species and not others. Lac de la Seve at 1.6 km is the sensible second choice. What applies at Lac Blaze may have changed since it was mapped.