Lac Saint-Amour in Lanaudière: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Look for Lac Saint-Amour in the Lanaudière part of Quebec. Pine and birch runs right down to the water. With some 11 hectares of water, there is room for a boat but no need of one. Bank access stretches around 1.8 km in total. Saint-Michel-des-Saints at 18 km is the nearest place to stop. For a city, Saint-Louis-de-Terrebonne is 91 km off. The county line is nowhere near, so one local authority covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Lac Saint-Amour

  We hold no depth figure for this one. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. Species logged across Lanaudière include pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass, yellow perch, rock bass and brook trout. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Lac Saint-Amour responds to conditions more than to tactics.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Temperature averages peak at 17°C in July and bottom out at -15°C in January. Cold winters and warm summers give a wide working range. Ice-out usually falls in early May, and the weeks after it fish hardest. From about early May to around late November, expect open water on the long-run figures. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. The season on Lac Saint-Amour follows the weather closely.

• Tackle & Baits

  The rules here are undocumented as far as public sources go. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. Public toilets are recorded roughly 570 m off. A small crankbait along the drop and a worm in the thick stuff cover the bass. Parking is often the real limit rather than the bank itself. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. Should this one be busy, Lac Sciar is 0.9 km off. Nothing on Lac Saint-Amour should be assumed from this page alone.