Fishing Lac Naudion in Outaouais, Quebec

• Overview

  You will find Lac Naudion in Outaouais, Quebec. The setting is mixed forest on every side. At 3 hectares it is the sort of place you fish for an evening rather than a day. Our Outaouais list holds plenty of bigger water. Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel lies 16 km from the water. For a city, Orléans is 74 km off. The county line is nowhere near, so one local authority covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Lac Naudion

  There is no recorded depth, so work from what you can see. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. Records held for Outaouais cover pumpkinseed, yellow perch, smallmouth bass, rainbow smelt and Iowa darter. Records at this level tell you what is in the area. Fish Lac Naudion to its features, not to its size.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July runs about 18°C on average, January about -14°C. Cold winters and warm summers give a wide working range. Ice-out usually falls in late April, and the weeks after it fish hardest. Ice clears near late April and comes back about late November in a typical year. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. That is the shape of the year on Lac Naudion.

• Tackle & Baits

  We have no record of the rules that apply on this bank. Formal access is not mapped, so the last stretch is likely on foot. Largemouth respond to soft plastics tight to cover; go weedless where the growth is heavy. Look for a notice board at the entrance. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. Lac Sem, 0.4 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Check the position at Lac Naudion before loading the car.