Lac Fanon Fishing in Laurentides, Quebec

• Overview

  In Quebec, Lac Fanon belongs to Laurentides. The setting is mixed forest. It covers about 5 hectares, so this is small water you can walk round in under an hour. Nearest town is Saint-Boniface, 51 km off. Beyond it, Ferme-Neuve at 57 km and Mont-Laurier at 64 km. Also on the doorstep: Lac de la Poudrerie out at 1.2 km, Lac Epris roughly 1.4 km, Lac Morille out at 1.5 km, Lac du Gibier roughly 1.7 km and Lac Mailey out at 1.8 km. It sits well inside the county, so one set of rules covers it.

• Where to Fish on Lac Fanon

  Depth is not on record here, which means reading the ground instead. 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. Fish documented in Laurentides include pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass, yellow perch, brook trout and rock bass. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Lac Fanon gives up its fish to patience rather than distance.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warm month here averages 18°C; the cold one sits at -16°C. Cold locks it up for a good stretch each year. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about late April. Ice usually gives way near late April, and forms again about late November. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. That shapes the year on Lac Fanon.

• Tackle & Baits

  The rules here are undocumented as far as public sources go. There is no recorded infrastructure here; expect to find your own way in. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Parking space is the usual limit rather than the bank itself. Signs go up and come down, so check on the day. For a change of water, Lac de la Poudrerie is 1.2 km distant. Nothing here settles the position at Lac Fanon for certain.