Lac des Joncs Fishing Guide, Estrie, Quebec

• Overview

  Set in Estrie, Quebec, this is Lac des Joncs. It stands 390 metres above sea level. With some 79 hectares of water, there is room for a boat but no need of one. Lac-Mégantic lies 15 km from the water. Weedon Centre is 55 km and Cookshire 61 km. The boundary is near enough that local access rules are worth double-checking. Conditions change the water more than the calendar does.

• Where to Fish on Lac des Joncs

  No chart reached our records; the first cast is your sounding. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Species logged across Estrie include rainbow trout, white sucker, pumpkinseed, brook trout and rainbow smelt. Species recorded across the county may be limited to a few waters. At Lac des Joncs the water rewards a slow, careful approach.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Typical July readings run about 18°C; by January the average is down near -12°C. A full turn of seasons, with the strongest sport on either side of summer. Count the season from break-up, usually late April. Climate figures give an open season running late April to late November. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. That is the shape of the year on Lac des Joncs.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. Mapping shows an empty shoreline: no ramp, no jetty, no marked entry. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Sort the permit out before you load the car. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. Lac aux Araignees sits 4.3 km off and takes the overflow. Confirm before you fish Lac des Joncs.