Lac Radius, Quebec: Fishing Spots and Seasons

• Overview

  You will find Lac Radius in Outaouais, Quebec. The setting is boreal forest on every side. At 3 hectares it is the sort of place you fish for an evening rather than a day. On size it sits at the modest end of our Outaouais list. Saint-Boniface is the closest place, 77 km off. Ferme-Neuve follows at 77 km, then Mont-Laurier at 87 km. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Lac Radius

  No chart reached our records; the first cast is your sounding. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Across Outaouais, recorded fish include pumpkinseed, yellow perch, smallmouth bass and rainbow smelt. These are county-wide records, so not all of them will be in this water. The near bank of Lac Radius is often the one people ignore.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Typical July readings run about 17°C; by January the average is down near -17°C. This is a two-season water: locked, then wide open. Break-up comes around early May, and the run that follows is short and strong. In an average year the thaw lands around early May and the freeze near late November. Fishing peaks soon after break-up and again before the cold returns. Plan any trip to Lac Radius around it.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access status is simply unknown for this water. Formal access is not mapped, so the last stretch is likely on foot. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Where the road in crosses private land, ask first. Some water is controlled locally without a sign saying so. Should this one be busy, Lac Perroquet is 0.7 km off. None of that is settled for Lac Radius in what we hold.