Lac Philippe Fishing near Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, Quebec

• Overview

  This water sits in Laurentides, Quebec. The country here is pine and birch. This is sizeable water at about 1.34 sq km, and a boat opens up most of it. With 13 km or so of shoreline, boat anglers cover ground the bank cannot. Few waters listed in Laurentides are bigger. Head to Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, 21 km away, for anything you forgot. La Minerve is 24 km and Lac-Simon 37 km. No border sits close enough to matter.

• Where to Fish on Lac Philippe

  The records we hold are silent on depth, so plan to find it yourself. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Public occurrence data for Laurentides names pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass and yellow perch. These are county-wide records, so not all of them will be in this water. On Lac Philippe the first feature you find is usually worth a session.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July is the warm end of the year here, averaging about 18°C, while January sits near -14°C. The freeze arrives properly here and holds. Hard cover is dependable here; it goes around late April. Average temperatures cross freezing around late April in spring and again near late November in autumn. The open run goes from the thaw to the freeze, and April through October covers most of it. Lac Philippe fishes to that pattern most years.

• Tackle & Baits

  Public sources are silent on who controls the bank. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. Nothing is listed nearby for parking or launching a boat. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Ask in the nearest town if you are unsure. Barbless rules turn up on managed water more often than not. Should this one be busy, Lac Laniac is 1.1 km off. Check the position at Lac Philippe before loading the car.