Lac des Treize in Lanaudière: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Out in Lanaudière, Quebec, sits Lac des Treize. Elevation runs to 597 metres. It covers about 7 hectares, so this is small water you can walk round in under an hour. Compared with other Quebec water on our list, it sits high. Start from Saint-Michel-des-Saints, 24 km down the road. Beyond it, Saint-Donat-de-Montcalm at 34 km and Sainte-Béatrix at 34 km. It sits well inside its county, with no border complications.

• Where to Fish on Lac des Treize

  Depth remains unrecorded, so treat the first session as a survey. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. Open biodiversity records for Lanaudière list pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass, yellow perch and rock bass. It is the county picture; the agency list is water-specific. At Lac des Treize the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages move between -15°C in January and 17°C in July. The year splits cleanly: hard water, then open water. Hard cover is dependable here; it goes around late April. On the long-run averages the water opens up around late April and starts locking again about late November. June through September is the settled part of the year, with the shoulders busier for fish. It holds true on Lac des Treize more years than not.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access status is simply unknown for this water. No built facilities appear in mapping around this water. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Gates get locked out of season on water like this. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. For a change of water, Lac de la Peche is 1.6 km distant. Nothing on Lac des Treize should be assumed from this page alone.