Fishing at Lac du Diable, Outaouais, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac du Diable is one of the Outaouais listings for Quebec. This is mixed forest ground. Surface area is around 87 hectares, which gives you real water without needing a boat. At about 6.7 km of edge, most people work one arm at a time. It ranks high for size among our Outaouais listings. 13 km away sits Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, the nearest town. Further out sit La Minerve (25 km) and Lac-Simon (34 km). It sits well inside its county, with no border complications.

• Where to Fish on Lac du Diable

  We hold no survey for this water; read the slope of the shoreline instead. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Records held for Outaouais cover pumpkinseed, yellow perch, smallmouth bass and rainbow smelt. The county figures include rivers and lakes alike. At Lac du Diable the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Average temperature peaks around 18°C in July and bottoms out near -14°C in January. Winter puts a hard lid on this one. Winter locks it down, and late April brings it back. On the long-run averages the water opens up around late April and starts locking again about late November. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. On Lac du Diable the same rules apply, with local timing.

• Tackle & Baits

  We have no record of the rules that apply on this bank. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. Largemouth respond to soft plastics tight to cover; go weedless where the growth is heavy. Where a permit is needed, the nearest town usually sells it. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. Should this one be busy, Lac Sor is 1 km off. Where Lac du Diable is concerned, a local answer beats a written one.