Lac Patry in Laurentides: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Set in Laurentides, Lac Patry is a Quebec water. It sits in rolling bush. This is sizeable water at about 1.27 sq km, and a boat opens up most of it. The edge covers about 9.1 km, enough to hold several distinct areas. Few waters listed in Laurentides are bigger. The closest town, Ferme-Neuve, is 50 km distant. For a city, Gatineau is 175 km off. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.

• Where to Fish on Lac Patry

  There is no recorded depth, so work from what you can see. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Records held for Laurentides cover pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass, yellow perch, brook trout and rock bass. County records show what lives in the area; the local agency holds the water-by-water list. Work Lac Patry in sections rather than trying to cover it.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warmest month averages 17°C, the coldest about -16°C. Cold locks it up for a good stretch each year. The freeze runs deep into the year, with break-up near late April. The open-water window runs from around late April to about late November in an average year. The middle of summer slows a little, with dawn and dusk carrying it. The season on Lac Patry rarely departs from it.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. A small crankbait along the drop and a worm in the thick stuff cover the bass. Parking space is the usual limit rather than the bank itself. Signs go up and come down, so check on the day. Lac Petawaga at 1.6 km is the sensible second choice. Treat access at Lac Patry as something to verify.