Lac du Liteau in Outaouais: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Quebec holds Lac du Liteau, in Outaouais. The surface lies 364 metres up. At 3 hectares it is the sort of place you fish for an evening rather than a day. On size it sits at the modest end of our Outaouais list. The town to know is Ferme-Neuve, 91 km out. The big place round here is Gatineau, 209 km distant. Close by you also have: Lac Orban some 0.4 km off, Lac du Rejet 1.7 km, Lac Gevimont some 1.9 km off, Lac Gerard 2 km and Lac Bitume some 2.8 km off. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.

• Where to Fish on Lac du Liteau

  No depth figure has reached our records, which makes a plummet useful. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Species logged across Outaouais include pumpkinseed, yellow perch, smallmouth bass and rainbow smelt. Species recorded across the county may be limited to a few waters. Work Lac du Liteau in sections rather than trying to cover it.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Climate records put July near 17°C and January near -17°C. This far north the hard season runs and runs. Hard water holds through the cold months, breaking up near early May. Break-up sits around early May on average, with the water closing again about mid November. September and October fish steadily right up to the freeze. Time your trip to Lac du Liteau by conditions rather than dates.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. We find no slipway, car park or made path within a short radius, so treat access as rough. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Season dates differ by species, so read the table. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. Should this one be busy, Lac Orban is 0.4 km off. Nothing here settles the position at Lac du Liteau for certain.