Fishing Lac Bouthillier in Laurentides, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac Bouthillier stands in Laurentides, Quebec. This is pine and birch country. At about 24 hectares, a day is enough to walk the shoreline properly. A shoreline of some 2.8 km keeps the choices simple. You are 5.5 km from Val-Morin. It is 43 km to Saint-Louis-de-Terrebonne, the nearest city. It lies deep inside the county rather than near an edge.

• Where to Fish on Lac Bouthillier

  Depth went unrecorded, which puts the reading back on you. The shallow end warms first and pulls fish in ahead of the rest. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. County-wide records name pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass, yellow perch, brook trout and rock bass. What holds for the county may not hold for this water. Read Lac Bouthillier before you fish it and the day goes better.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The seasonal spread runs -13°C to 18°C. Four clear seasons, with a proper winter at one end. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about late April. Climate figures give an open season running late April to late November. Spring is short and heavy here; autumn is longer and steadier. On Lac Bouthillier the same rules apply, with local timing.

• Tackle & Baits

  Public sources are silent on who controls the bank. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. A small crankbait along the drop and a worm in the thick stuff cover the bass. Provincial rules still apply whatever the bank status. Some ground is open by custom rather than by right, so tread carefully. Lac Todd, 2 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Nothing here settles the position at Lac Bouthillier for certain.