Lac de la Niche Fishing Guide, Laurentides, Quebec

• Overview

  In Quebec, Lac de la Niche belongs to Laurentides. Elevation runs to 329 metres. It runs to roughly 15 hectares — big enough to hold fish away from the bank, small enough to learn. Shoreline comes to about 1.7 km, small enough to learn in a day. Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard at 8.8 km is the nearest place to stop. The big place round here is Saint-Louis-de-Terrebonne, 59 km distant. It sits well inside the county, so one set of rules covers it.

• Where to Fish on Lac de la Niche

  Depth figures are not published for this one. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Open biodiversity records for Laurentides list pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass, yellow perch, brook trout and rock bass. These are county-wide records, so not all of them will be in this water. On Lac de la Niche that means starting tight and working out.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Average temperature peaks around 18°C in July and bottoms out near -14°C in January. Expect a real winter and a strong spring after it. Hard cover is dependable here; it goes around late April. The lid tends to go about late April and return around late November. The middle of summer slows a little, with dawn and dusk carrying it. Plan around that when you fish Lac de la Niche.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing in our records says who may fish here. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. Access is unmapped, which usually means a farm track and a walk. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Season dates differ by species, so read the table. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. Should this one be busy, Lac Merisier is 0.9 km off. Where Lac de la Niche is concerned, a local answer beats a written one.