Fishing at Lac du Telephone, Laurentides, Quebec

• Overview

  Out in Laurentides, Quebec, sits Lac du Telephone. The bank is 325 metres above sea level. Ferme-Neuve lies 42 km from the water. Then Mont-Laurier, 59 km, and Saint-Boniface, 77 km. Within a short drive: Lac Wilbrod some 1.1 km off, 1.9 km away is Lac Paul, Lac Shooner some 2 km off, 2.1 km away is Lac du Cure and Lac Perdu some 2.2 km off. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Lac du Telephone

  No chart reached our records; the first cast is your sounding. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Records held for Laurentides cover pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass, yellow perch and brook trout. Take it as the county picture rather than a promise for this water. Lac du Telephone responds to conditions more than to tactics.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July is the warm end of the year here, averaging about 17°C, while January sits near -15°C. Winter shuts things down for a spell, then spring reopens them fast. Hard cover is dependable here; it goes around late April. Going by climate averages, expect open water from about late April until roughly late November. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. Lac du Telephone runs to that rhythm year in and year out.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether the bank is open is not something our records settle. Mapping shows an empty shoreline: no ramp, no jetty, no marked entry. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Season dates differ by species, so read the table. Some water is controlled locally without a sign saying so. Lac Wilbrod, 1.1 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Check the position on Lac du Telephone before loading the car.