Fishing at Lac du Buck, Outaouais, Quebec

• Overview

  You will find Lac du Buck in Outaouais, Quebec. It lies 245 metres above sea level. Surface area runs to about 4 hectares — small enough to read in one session. On size it sits at the modest end of our Outaouais list. For a base, Saint-Raphaël sits 29 km out. Then Maniwaki, 40 km, and Wakefield, 41 km. The county line is nowhere near, so one local authority covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Lac du Buck

  Depth is unmeasured here, so let the shoreline guide you. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. The shallow end warms first and pulls fish in ahead of the rest. Survey and observation records for Outaouais include pumpkinseed, yellow perch and smallmouth bass. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Read Lac du Buck for ten minutes before the first cast goes out.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Seasonal averages run from -13°C in January up to 19°C in July. A full turn of seasons, with the strongest sport on either side of summer. Winter fishing happens on the ice here, with open water back around late April. The season between ice runs from about late April to early December. The weeks after the thaw and the ones before the freeze are the strongest. That shapes the year on Lac du Buck.

• Tackle & Baits

  No access rule appears in what we hold. You can camp about 830 m away, going by the mapping. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Where the road in crosses private land, ask first. Barbless rules turn up on managed water more often than not. Lac Numero Trois, 0.8 km away, makes the obvious fallback. The position on Lac du Buck is worth confirming on the day.