Lac Etroit Fishing in Laurentides, Quebec

• Overview

  The Laurentides end of Quebec holds Lac Etroit. Height above sea level is 304 metres. At about 14 hectares, a day is enough to walk the shoreline properly. Shoreline comes to about 2.5 km, small enough to learn in a day. La Minerve is the closest town at 9.6 km. Lac-Simon is 13 km and La Conception 16 km. It sits well inside the county, so one set of rules covers it.

• Where to Fish on Lac Etroit

  Depth is not on record here, so the bank has to tell you. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. Open biodiversity records for Laurentides list pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass and yellow perch. Take it as the county picture rather than a promise for this water. On Lac Etroit the quiet end is the one worth the extra effort.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The seasonal spread runs -14°C to 18°C. The middle months are generous; the ends are demanding. Winter fishing happens on the ice here, with open water back around late April. The season between ice runs from about late April to late November. Reckon on open water from spring through to late autumn, with May and June the strongest. Lac Etroit runs to its own calendar within the local pattern.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether the bank is open is not something our records settle. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. 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. Gates get locked out of season on water like this. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. Should this one be busy, Lac des Molenes is 0.8 km off. Signs at Lac Etroit carry more weight than any list.