Lac Crowfoot Fishing in Lanaudière, Quebec

• Overview

  Lanaudière, Quebec, is where Lac Crowfoot sits. Elevation runs to 452 metres. Roughly 46 hectares: a morning covers one end, an afternoon the other. The whole outline is near 4.7 km, and most of it is walkable. Size puts it in the front rank of our Lanaudière list. For a base, Saint-Donat-de-Montcalm sits 27 km out. Saint-Louis-de-Terrebonne sits 103 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. The county line is nowhere near, so one local authority covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Lac Crowfoot

  No figure exists for depth, so let the water show you. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Survey and observation records for Lanaudière include pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass, yellow perch, rock bass and brook trout. What holds for the county may not hold for this water. Lac Crowfoot responds to conditions more than to tactics.

• Seasonal Patterns

  In an average year July sits at 17°C and January at -15°C. A solid cap is the normal state through winter. The lid usually goes in early May, which opens the strongest weeks of the year. Ice clears near early May and comes back about late November in a typical year. Reckon on open water from spring through to late autumn, with May and June the strongest. Anyone fishing Lac Crowfoot regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether the bank is open is not something our records settle. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. No launch point is recorded nearby, so this is a bank water unless you carry a boat in. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Where the road in crosses private land, ask first. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. Failing this one, try Lac Vidal, 2.1 km away. Where Lac Crowfoot is concerned, a local answer beats a written one.