Lac Dortet in Laurentides: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Out in Laurentides, Quebec, sits Lac Dortet. It stands 377 metres above sea level. This is a pocket water of some 7 hectares, and every part of it is reachable from the bank. You are 83 km from Ferme-Neuve. Then Saint-Boniface, 93 km, and Mont-Laurier, 96 km. Within easy reach: Lac Piraube 0.6 km, Lac de la Belle at 1.4 km, Lac des Sources Vives 2.2 km, Lac de la Route Eclair at 2.7 km and Lac Lenotre 2.9 km. It sits well inside the county, so one set of rules covers it.

• Where to Fish on Lac Dortet

  Nothing we hold settles how deep this runs. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Survey and observation records for Laurentides include pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass, yellow perch and brook trout. Take it as the county picture rather than a promise for this water. At Lac Dortet the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  In an average year July sits at 17°C and January at -17°C. Everything is compressed into the middle of the year. Hard cover is dependable here; it goes around early May. Averages suggest open water from about early May through to roughly late November. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. Lac Dortet runs to its own calendar within the local pattern.

• Tackle & Baits

  We hold no note on access for this one. Nothing built is recorded close to the bank here. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Check locally before you travel, because a wasted drive is a long one. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. For a change of water, Lac Piraube is 0.6 km distant. For Lac Dortet in particular, ask before you travel.