Lac du Radeau Fishing in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac du Radeau stands in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec. It stands 340 metres above sea level. Surface area runs to about 3 hectares — small enough to read in one session. It is one of the smaller waters we list in Abitibi-Témiscamingue. Val-d'Or is the closest place, 90 km off. Malartic is 101 km and Notre-Dame-du-Lac 122 km. No county line comes close, which keeps the paperwork simple.

• Where to Fish on Lac du Radeau

  No chart reached our records; the first cast is your sounding. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Abitibi-Témiscamingue records list northern pike, yellow perch and walleye among the fish reported. The county list is broader than any single water. Treat Lac du Radeau as a water to read rather than to cover.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warm month here averages 17°C; the cold one sits at -15°C. A solid cap is the normal state through winter. Hard cover is dependable here; it goes around early May. Going by climate averages, expect open water from about early May until roughly late November. June through September is the settled part of the year, with the shoulders busier for fish. The season on Lac du Radeau rarely departs from it.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. No built facilities appear in mapping around this water. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Sort the permit out before you load the car. Access can change hands, so last year's answer may not hold. Lac Succa, 1.7 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Treat access at Lac du Radeau as something to verify.