Lac Lucas in Outaouais: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Set in Outaouais, Lac Lucas is a Quebec water. Height above sea level is 170 metres. You can fish the entire water from one spot if you pick it well. Our Outaouais list holds plenty of bigger water. Nearest place of any size is Shawville, 5.9 km away. Then Arnprior, 20 km, and Renfrew, 27 km. No county line comes close, which keeps the paperwork simple.

• Where to Fish on Lac Lucas

  There is no recorded depth, so work from what you can see. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. Survey and observation records for Outaouais include pumpkinseed, yellow perch, smallmouth bass, rainbow smelt and Iowa darter. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Lac Lucas gives up more to patience than to distance.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warmest month averages 19°C, the coldest about -13°C. The freeze arrives properly here and holds. Count the season from break-up, usually late April. Averages place the thaw at late April and the freeze at early December. May into June fishes hardest, and September gives a second good stretch before the lid returns. Plan around that when you fish Lac Lucas.

• Tackle & Baits

  Who may fish here is not settled in anything we hold. Nothing in the way of made access shows up nearby: no ramp, no car park, no path. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Some banks are open only from a marked point. Where tickets apply, they are sold in the nearest town rather than on the bank. If the gate is shut, Lac Gibbons at 6.1 km is the nearest alternative. The position on Lac Lucas is worth confirming on the day.