Lac Grimes Fishing Guide, Laurentides, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac Grimes is set in Laurentides, Quebec. What surrounds it is rolling bush. Roughly 23 hectares: a morning covers one end, an afternoon the other. Bank access stretches around 2.7 km in total. Head to Ferme-Neuve, 64 km away, for anything you forgot. Gatineau sits 186 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Lac Grimes

  Depth figures are not published for this one. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Laurentides records list pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass and yellow perch among the fish reported. What holds for the county may not hold for this water. At Lac Grimes light and wind decide more than tackle does.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Long-term averages put July at about 17°C and January near -16°C. Winter closes the water for a while, and the reopening is worth catching. Hard cover is dependable here; it goes around late April. On the long-run averages the water opens up around late April and starts locking again about late November. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. The season on Lac Grimes rarely departs from it.

• Tackle & Baits

  The access position is unclear from public sources. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. Formal access is not mapped, so the last stretch is likely on foot. Rules differ from one water to the next round here. Some ground is open by custom rather than by right, so tread carefully. If the gate is shut, Lac Tuna at 2.6 km is the nearest alternative. Where Lac Grimes is concerned, a local answer beats a written one.