Lac Lamontagne Fishing near La Tuque, Quebec

• Overview

  Within Mauricie, Quebec, you have Lac Lamontagne. The bank gives way to mixed forest. It covers about 3 hectares, so this is small water you can walk round in under an hour. It is one of the smaller waters we list in Mauricie. Some 20 km away sits La Tuque, the nearest settlement. Laurentides is 67 km away, with Weymontachie at 78 km. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Lac Lamontagne

  No figure exists for depth, so let the water show you. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. The shallow end warms first and pulls fish in ahead of the rest. Records held for Mauricie cover northern pike, brook trout and walleye. County records show what lives in the area; the local agency holds the water-by-water list. Treat Lac Lamontagne as a water to read rather than to cover.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warmest month averages 17°C, the coldest about -16°C. Winter puts a hard lid on this one. The lid arrives early and lasts until roughly late April. Ice clears near late April and comes back about late November in a typical year. Late spring and early autumn carry the year between them. On Lac Lamontagne the same rules apply, with local timing.

• Tackle & Baits

  No public source sets out the position on this bank. We find no slipway, car park or made path within a short radius, so treat access as rough. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Where access is informal, keep it that way by behaving. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. Lac Filion sits 1.5 km off and takes the overflow. Treat Lac Lamontagne as unsettled until someone local tells you otherwise.