Lac Sonnie Fishing in Laurentides, Quebec

• Overview

  Laurentides in Quebec is where Lac Sonnie sits. The land about it is boreal forest. The water covers some 11 hectares, so pick a bank rather than trying to cover it all. With about 1.4 km of edge, you can try several depths in one session. The nearest town is Ferme-Neuve, 89 km away. For a city, Gatineau is 215 km off. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.

• Where to Fish on Lac Sonnie

  Depth went unrecorded, which puts the reading back on you. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Laurentides records list pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass, yellow perch and brook trout among the fish reported. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. On Lac Sonnie the obvious spot is not always the productive one.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Average temperature peaks around 17°C in July and bottoms out near -17°C in January. This far north the hard season runs and runs. Ice is part of the season here, ending near early May. In an average year the thaw lands around early May and the freeze near late November. Reckon on open water from spring through to late autumn, with May and June the strongest. Lac Sonnie runs to its own calendar within the local pattern.

• Tackle & Baits

  Our records carry no access rule either way. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. There is no mapped parking or launch close by, which usually means walking in. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Check whether a boat is allowed before you tow one. Keep proof of licence with you rather than in the car. For a change of water, Lac Pasteur is 1 km distant. What applies at Lac Sonnie may have changed since it was mapped.