Lac Gardelle in Laurentides: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Lac Gardelle stands in Laurentides, Quebec. This is rolling bush ground. This is a pocket water of some 3 hectares, and every part of it is reachable from the bank. Our Laurentides list holds plenty of bigger water. Head to Labelle, 23 km away, for anything you forgot. Saint-Louis-de-Terrebonne sits 100 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. This one is safely inside the county line.

• Where to Fish on Lac Gardelle

  Depth went unrecorded, which puts the reading back on you. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Laurentides records list pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass and yellow perch among the fish reported. County data is a starting point rather than a guarantee. At Lac Gardelle the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Seasonal averages run from -15°C in January up to 17°C in July. Cold locks it up for a good stretch each year. The freeze runs deep into the year, with break-up near 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. That shapes the year on Lac Gardelle.

• Tackle & Baits

  The rules here are undocumented as far as public sources go. No car park, ramp or path is recorded within easy reach of the shore. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Rules for this water may differ from the county norm. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. For a change of water, Lac Lafine is 0.8 km distant. Ask locally about Lac Gardelle if anything is unclear.