Fishing Lac du Mort-Bois in Laurentides, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac du Mort-Bois is one of the Laurentides waters in Quebec. The water sits 295 metres up. This is a pocket water of some 8 hectares, and every part of it is reachable from the bank. La Minerve sits 8.1 km from the bank. For a city, Orléans is 94 km off. Also worth knowing: Lac Gron some 0.3 km off, Lac Helene at about 1.3 km, Petit lac Laramee some 1.5 km off, Lac Laramee at about 1.8 km and Lac La Minerve some 2.2 km off. It sits well inside its county, with no border complications.

• Where to Fish on Lac du Mort-Bois

  We hold no depth figure for this one. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Public occurrence data for Laurentides names pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass, yellow perch, brook trout and rock bass. It is the county picture; the agency list is water-specific. At Lac du Mort-Bois the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Typical July readings run about 18°C; by January the average is down near -14°C. A full turn of seasons, with the strongest sport on either side of summer. Ice-out usually falls in late April, and the weeks after it fish hardest. Break-up sits around late April on average, with the water closing again about late November. Fish feed hardest at the start and the close of the open season. That is the shape of the year on Lac du Mort-Bois.

• Tackle & Baits

  Ownership and access are not documented in what we hold. Public data shows nothing built here, so treat the whole approach as informal. Largemouth respond to soft plastics tight to cover; go weedless where the growth is heavy. A landowner's word beats anything printed elsewhere. Close seasons apply to some species and not others. Lac Gron, 0.3 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Treat access at Lac du Mort-Bois as something to verify.