Fishing at Lac de la Montagne Noire, Outaouais, Quebec

• Overview

  You will find Lac de la Montagne Noire in Outaouais, Quebec. Height above sea level is 241 metres. At about 30 hectares, a day is enough to walk the shoreline properly. The edge runs 4.7 km or so, easy to work in an afternoon. Maniwaki sits 17 km from here and is the nearest stop. Further out sit Saint-Boniface (23 km) and Saint-Raphaël (25 km). This one sits near enough to a boundary to be worth checking.

• Where to Fish on Lac de la Montagne Noire

  We hold no survey for this water; read the slope of the shoreline instead. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. County-wide records name pumpkinseed, yellow perch, smallmouth bass, rainbow smelt and Iowa darter. Records at this level tell you what is in the area. Read Lac de la Montagne Noire for ten minutes before the first cast goes out.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Between January at about -14°C and July at about 18°C, the water has a wide range to work through. Winter shuts things down for a spell, then spring reopens them fast. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about late April. Break-up sits around late April on average, with the water closing again about late November. Fishing peaks soon after break-up and again before the cold returns. That shapes the year on Lac de la Montagne Noire.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. 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. Where a permit is needed, the nearest town usually sells it. Some water is controlled locally without a sign saying so. Lac Brochet, 1.3 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Nothing on Lac de la Montagne Noire should be assumed from this page alone.