Fishing at Lac Numero Trois, Outaouais, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac Numero Trois is an Outaouais water, Quebec side. The surface lies 223 metres up. At about 43 hectares, a day is enough to walk the shoreline properly. With about 4.6 km of edge, you can try several depths in one session. Size puts it in the front rank of our Outaouais list. The town to know is Saint-Raphaël, 29 km out. The big place round here is Gatineau, 63 km distant. No boundary runs near, so the local rules hold throughout.

• Where to Fish on Lac Numero Trois

  No depth figure appears in our records, so the bank has to tell you. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Records held for Outaouais cover pumpkinseed, yellow perch, smallmouth bass, rainbow smelt and Iowa darter. It is the county picture; the agency list is water-specific. Fish Lac Numero Trois to its features, not to its size.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July is the warm end of the year here, averaging about 19°C, while January sits near -13°C. Winter shuts things down for a spell, then spring reopens them fast. Once it clears, about late April, the fishing comes on quickly. The season between ice runs from about late April to early December. Right after break-up, and again as the nights sharpen, is when to go. Lac Numero Trois runs to its own calendar within the local pattern.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing we hold confirms whether access is permitted. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. There is a campsite 180 m from the water. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Rules for this water may differ from the county norm. Some ground is open by custom rather than by right, so tread carefully. Lac du Buck, 0.8 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Treat access at Lac Numero Trois as something to verify.