Lac Clementine in Laurentides: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  This water sits in Laurentides, Quebec. This is lake country bush ground. Some 4.1 km away sits Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, the nearest settlement. Saint-Louis-de-Terrebonne sits 56 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. Others within reach: Lac Wener about 0.5 km, Lac Piche sits 1.3 km out, Lac Brule about 2.3 km, Lac Brunet sits 2.7 km out and Lac Legare about 3.3 km. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.

• Where to Fish on Lac Clementine

  There is no published depth for this one, so start shallow and work out. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Records held for Laurentides cover pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass, yellow perch, brook trout and rock bass. County records show what lives in the area; the local agency holds the water-by-water list. On Lac Clementine the first feature you find is usually worth a session.

• Seasonal Patterns

  In an average year July sits at 18°C and January at -14°C. Hard water is a season in its own right here. The lid usually goes in late April, which opens the strongest weeks of the year. Expect the water usable from around late April until roughly late November. The strongest runs come at either end of the open season. Time your trip to Lac Clementine by conditions rather than dates.

• Tackle & Baits

  Who may fish here is not settled in anything we hold. Facilities run to toilets 1.5 km from the water. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. A landowner's word beats anything printed elsewhere. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. Lac Wener at 0.5 km is the sensible second choice. Treat access at Lac Clementine as something to verify.