Fishing at Lac Spruce, Laurentides, Quebec

• Overview

  Within Laurentides, Quebec, you have Lac Spruce. What surrounds it is northern bush. With some 17 hectares of water, there is room for a boat but no need of one. There is roughly 2.5 km of shoreline here, which is a short walk end to end. You are 43 km from Ferme-Neuve. For a city, Saint-Louis-de-Terrebonne is 165 km off. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Lac Spruce

  Depth figures are not published for this one. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Species logged across Laurentides include pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass, yellow perch and brook trout. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. The near bank of Lac Spruce is often the one people ignore.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Between January at about -16°C and July at about 17°C, the water has a wide range to work through. The ice season is long here and the open one short. The open season starts with the thaw, near enough early May. On average, early May opens the water and mid November closes it again. Just after the ice goes and just before it returns, the fishing lifts. Anyone fishing Lac Spruce regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing we hold confirms whether access is permitted. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. Nothing formal is recorded here: no ramp, no car park, no marked path. Local rules can differ across the county line, so check where you stand. Access can change hands, so last year's answer may not hold. The nearest alternative is Lac Andy, 0.9 km out. Where Lac Spruce is concerned, a local answer beats a written one.