Lac des Perots Fishing Guide, Laurentides, Quebec

• Overview

  The Laurentides end of Quebec holds Lac des Perots. The setting is mixed forest on every side. Supplies mean a trip to Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, 24 km off. La Minerve follows at 38 km, then Ripon at 40 km. Within easy reach: Lac Cottenin just 0.5 km, Lac Vion some 0.7 km off, Lac Barly just 0.8 km, Lac Fernet some 1 km off and Lac Pegy just 1.6 km. Rules here are straightforward: one set of provincial rules.

• Where to Fish on Lac des Perots

  Our records hold no depth for this water. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Records held for Laurentides cover pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass, yellow perch, brook trout and rock bass. Records at this level tell you what is in the area. At Lac des Perots the water rewards a slow, careful approach.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Climate normals give 18°C for July and -14°C for January. The middle months are generous; the ends are demanding. Ice is part of the season here, ending near late April. Climate figures give an open season running late April to late November. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. It sets the rhythm of the year at Lac des Perots.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access status is simply unknown for this water. Nothing formal is recorded here: no ramp, no car park, no marked path. Largemouth respond to soft plastics tight to cover; go weedless where the growth is heavy. Parking is often the real limit rather than the bank itself. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. Lac Cottenin at 0.5 km is the sensible second choice. Treat Lac des Perots as unsettled until someone local tells you otherwise.