Fishing Lac des Cedres in Laurentides, Quebec

• Overview

  Within Laurentides, Quebec, you have Lac des Cedres. It sits in rolling bush country. Roughly 30 hectares: a morning covers one end, an afternoon the other. The bank runs about 2.5 km all the way round, so one visit can cover most of it. Few waters listed in Laurentides are bigger. Saint-Raphaël is the closest place, 33 km off. Maniwaki is 39 km away, with Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel at 44 km. The nearest edge is a long way off, so local rules apply throughout.

• Where to Fish on Lac des Cedres

  Without a survey to go on, judge depth from how the bank falls away. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Public occurrence data for Laurentides names pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass and yellow perch. The county figures include rivers and lakes alike. The shape of Lac des Cedres rewards a slow walk along one bank.

• Seasonal Patterns

  In an average year July sits at 19°C and January at -14°C. Spring and autumn carry the fishing; summer and winter test it. The lid usually sets by midwinter and gives way around late April. The lid tends to go about late April and return around late November. September and October fish steadily right up to the freeze. Lac des Cedres fishes to that pattern most years.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. Lac Campion provides a boat ramp about 790 m away. A platform or pier sits within 200 m. Mapping shows a picnic spot within 790 m. Provincial rules still apply whatever the bank status. Some water is controlled locally without a sign saying so. Should this one be busy, Lac Bonnecal is 1.3 km off. Treat Lac des Cedres as unsettled until someone local tells you otherwise.