Lac du Serpent Fishing Guide, Outaouais, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac du Serpent is an Outaouais water, in Quebec. The surface lies 233 metres up. Surface area is around 14 hectares, which gives you real water without needing a boat. There is roughly 2.1 km of shoreline here, which is a short walk end to end. Nearest town is Shawville, 22 km off. Then Constance Bay, 31 km, and Arnprior, 35 km. This one is safely inside the county line.

• Where to Fish on Lac du Serpent

  Without a survey to go on, judge depth from how the bank falls away. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Species logged across Outaouais include pumpkinseed, yellow perch, smallmouth bass and rainbow smelt. Records at county level tell you what is around, not what is stocked here. On Lac du Serpent the quiet end is the one worth the extra effort.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Expect July to average close to 19°C, with January the cold end at about -13°C. Cold locks it up for a good stretch each year. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about late April. Ice clears near late April and comes back about early December in a typical year. The middle of summer slows a little, with dawn and dusk carrying it. The season on Lac du Serpent rarely departs from it.

• Tackle & Baits

  The rules here are undocumented as far as public sources go. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. Nothing formal is recorded here: no ramp, no car park, no marked path. Largemouth respond to soft plastics tight to cover; go weedless where the growth is heavy. Rules differ from one water to the next round here. Rules for boats are stricter than rules for the bank in many places. For a change of water, Lac Martin is 0.7 km distant. Where Lac du Serpent is concerned, a local answer beats a written one.