Fishing Lac du Tamis in Lanaudière, Quebec

• Overview

  Set in Lanaudière, Lac du Tamis is a Quebec water. This is taiga country. Small at around 3 hectares: two anglers spread out cover most of it. Most waters listed here for Lanaudière are larger. The town to know is Manawan, 28 km out. The big place round here is Trois-Rivières, 143 km distant. The nearest edge is a long way off, so local rules apply throughout.

• Where to Fish on Lac du Tamis

  We hold no depth figure for this one. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Public occurrence data for Lanaudière names pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass, yellow perch and rock bass. The county figures include rivers and lakes alike. Lac du Tamis gives up more to patience than to distance.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages move between -16°C in January and 17°C in July. Everything is compressed into the middle of the year. Winter fishing happens on the ice here, with open water back around early May. Break-up near early May, freeze-up near mid November: that is the shape of an average year. The weeks after the thaw and the ones before the freeze are the strongest. It holds true on Lac du Tamis more years than not.

• Tackle & Baits

  Public data does not answer the access question here. Nothing formal is recorded here: no ramp, no car park, no marked path. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. A phone call first saves an afternoon. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. For a change of water, Lac du Mulot is 0.4 km distant. Treat Lac du Tamis as unsettled until someone local tells you otherwise.