Lac Gace Fishing Guide, Lanaudière, Quebec

• Overview

  Set in Lanaudière, Quebec, this is Lac Gace. Height above sea level is 412 metres. Nearest place of any size is Saint-Donat-de-Montcalm, 13 km away. The nearest city of size is Saint-Louis-de-Terrebonne, 79 km away. What else is close: Lac du Loup 1.6 km away, Lac Isaac roughly 2.1 km, Lac Olivier 2.3 km away, Lac du Caribou roughly 2.4 km and Lac Dougherty 2.9 km away. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Lac Gace

  We hold no depth figure for this one. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Survey and observation records for Lanaudière include pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass, yellow perch and rock bass. The county list is broader than any single water. On Lac Gace the obvious spot is not always the productive one.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The year swings from about -14°C in January to roughly 17°C in July. Four clear seasons, with a proper winter at one end. Expect a solid lid for months and a thaw around late April. Ice clears near late April and comes back about late November in a typical year. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. Anyone fishing Lac Gace regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  Public data does not answer the access question here. No launch point is recorded nearby, so this is a bank water unless you carry a boat in. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Check whether a boat is allowed before you tow one. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. The nearest alternative is Lac du Loup, 1.6 km out. The position on Lac Gace is worth confirming on the day.