Lac St-Onge Fishing near Mont-Laurier, Quebec

• Overview

  Laurentides, Quebec, is where Lac St-Onge sits. The bank is 239 metres above sea level. With some 68 hectares of water, there is room for a boat but no need of one. The edge covers about 5.9 km, enough to hold several distinct areas. Few waters listed in Laurentides are bigger. Mont-Laurier sits 14 km from here and is the nearest stop. After that come Ferme-Neuve at 22 km and Rivière-Rouge at 37 km. The nearest edge is a long way off, so local rules apply throughout.

• Where to Fish on Lac St-Onge

  Depth remains unrecorded, so treat the first session as a survey. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. County-wide records name pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass, yellow perch, brook trout and rock bass. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. At Lac St-Onge the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July runs about 18°C on average, January about -15°C. Cold locks it up for a good stretch each year. Winter fishing happens on the ice here, with open water back around late April. The lid tends to go about late April and return around late November. Reckon on open water from spring through to late autumn, with May and June the strongest. On Lac St-Onge that shapes the whole year.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. Nothing in the way of made access shows up nearby: no ramp, no car park, no path. A landowner's word beats anything printed elsewhere. Some ground is open by custom rather than by right, so tread carefully. The nearest alternative is Lac Francois, 3.9 km out. Nothing here settles the position at Lac St-Onge for certain.