Lac Pigeon in Outaouais: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Lac Pigeon is one of the Outaouais listings for Quebec. This is mixed forest country. It measures some 1.18 sq km, and wind has room to build across it. The margin runs to about 7.7 km in total. It ranks high for size among our Outaouais listings. You are 73 km from Deep River. Then Chalk River, 82 km, and Petawawa, 95 km. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Lac Pigeon

  No depth figure appears in our records, so the bank has to tell you. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Survey and observation records for Outaouais include pumpkinseed, yellow perch and smallmouth bass. The list covers the county rather than this water alone, so treat it as a guide. Fish Lac Pigeon where the bottom changes rather than where it looks deep.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages here run 18°C at the top of summer and -15°C at the bottom of winter. Winter shuts the surface down for months. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about late April. In an average year the thaw lands around late April and the freeze near late November. Just after the ice goes and just before it returns, the fishing lifts. Lac Pigeon runs to that rhythm year in and year out.

• Tackle & Baits

  The paperwork position is blank for this one. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. Access is unmapped, which usually means a farm track and a walk. A small crankbait along the drop and a worm in the thick stuff cover the bass. Rules differ from one water to the next round here. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. Lac Bruce at 2.1 km is the sensible second choice. Nothing on Lac Pigeon should be assumed from this page alone.