Lac Sullivan Fishing near La Minerve, Quebec

• Overview

  Quebec holds Lac Sullivan, in Laurentides. Country round the bank runs to rolling bush. Small at around 8 hectares: two anglers spread out cover most of it. Some 23 km away sits La Minerve, the nearest settlement. Then Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, 25 km, and Rivière-Rouge, 35 km. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Lac Sullivan

  No depth figure appears in our records, so the bank has to tell you. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Public occurrence data for Laurentides names pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass, yellow perch, brook trout and rock bass. Records at county level tell you what is around, not what is stocked here. The near bank of Lac Sullivan is often the one people ignore.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Typical July readings run about 18°C; by January the average is down near -14°C. Spring and autumn carry the fishing; summer and winter test it. Once it clears, about late April, the fishing comes on quickly. Averages place the thaw at late April and the freeze at late November. Reckon on open water from spring through to late autumn, with May and June the strongest. Lac Sullivan fishes to that pattern most years.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. Nothing is listed nearby for parking or launching a boat. Largemouth respond to soft plastics tight to cover; go weedless where the growth is heavy. Check whether a boat is allowed before you tow one. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. Should this one be busy, Lac des Scirpes is 0.6 km off. Rules at Lac Sullivan are worth checking on the day.