Lac du Souvenir Naturel, Quebec: Fishing Spots and Seasons

• Overview

  Look for Lac du Souvenir Naturel in the Laurentides part of Quebec. Elevation runs to 379 metres. At 9 hectares it is the sort of place you fish for an evening rather than a day. Ferme-Neuve lies 81 km from the water. For a city, Gatineau is 208 km off. Round about: Lac Nadon at 1 km, Lac de la Belle a touch under 2.1 km, Lac Santerre at 2.5 km, Lac Piraube a touch under 2.9 km and Lac Jackson at 3.2 km. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Lac du Souvenir Naturel

  Our records hold no depth for this water. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Across Laurentides, recorded fish include pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass, yellow perch and brook trout. These are county-wide records, so not all of them will be in this water. On Lac du Souvenir Naturel the first feature you find is usually worth a session.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages here run 17°C at the top of summer and -17°C at the bottom of winter. Winter runs most of the calendar, and everything worth doing happens in the gap. Winter fishing happens on the ice here, with open water back around early May. The season between ice runs from about early May to mid November. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. That is the shape of the year on Lac du Souvenir Naturel.

• Tackle & Baits

  We have no record of the rules that apply on this bank. Access is unmapped, which usually means a farm track and a walk. A small crankbait along the drop and a worm in the thick stuff cover the bass. Where access is informal, keep it that way by behaving. Close seasons apply to some species and not others. The nearest alternative is Lac Nadon, 1 km out. Nothing on Lac du Souvenir Naturel should be assumed from this page alone.