Fishing Lac Morin in Laurentides, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac Morin is a Laurentides water, Quebec side. What surrounds it is rolling bush. Small at around 8 hectares: two anglers spread out cover most of it. For a base, La Minerve sits 31 km out. Mont-Laurier is 32 km and Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel 36 km. Other water nearby: Lac Flaux a shade over 1 km, Lac Trudeau at 1.1 km, Lac Henou a shade over 1.1 km, Lac Samoisette at 1.2 km and Petit lac Henou a shade over 1.2 km. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Lac Morin

  Depth is not on record here, which means reading the ground instead. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Records held for Laurentides cover pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass, yellow perch and brook trout. It is the county picture; the agency list is water-specific. Lac Morin gives up more to patience than to distance.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warm month here averages 18°C; the cold one sits at -14°C. Cold winters and warm summers give a wide working range. Break-up comes around late April, and the run that follows is short and strong. The season between ice runs from about late April to late November. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. Lac Morin runs to that rhythm year in and year out.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing we hold confirms whether access is permitted. Nothing in the way of made access shows up nearby: no ramp, no car park, no path. A small crankbait along the drop and a worm in the thick stuff cover the bass. Check whether a boat is allowed before you tow one. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. Lac Flaux, 1 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Where Lac Morin is concerned, a local answer beats a written one.