Fishing at Lac Fourbe, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac Fourbe is an Abitibi-Témiscamingue water, Quebec side. What surrounds it is rolling bush. It covers about 8 hectares, so this is small water you can walk round in under an hour. The closest town, Val-d'Or, is 105 km away. Malartic is 122 km and Saint-Boniface 123 km. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Lac Fourbe

  Nothing in our records gives a depth for this one. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. Public occurrence data for Abitibi-Témiscamingue names northern pike, yellow perch, walleye, white sucker and brown bullhead. The list covers the county rather than this water alone, so treat it as a guide. On Lac Fourbe that means starting tight and working out.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warm month here averages 17°C; the cold one sits at -16°C. The freeze arrives properly here and holds. Hard cover is dependable here; it goes around early May. The open-water window runs from around early May to about late November in an average year. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. The season on Lac Fourbe follows the weather closely.

• Tackle & Baits

  We have no record of the rules that apply on this bank. Public data shows nothing built here, so treat the whole approach as informal. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Local rules can differ across the county line, so check where you stand. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. Lac de la Mesange sits 0.8 km off and takes the overflow. None of that is settled for Lac Fourbe in what we hold.