Lac Telfer in Outaouais: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Set in Outaouais, Quebec, this is Lac Telfer. The setting is rolling bush on every side. It measures about 56 hectares, which is a comfortable size for bank fishing. Some 6.7 km of bank gives room to move when the wind turns. Few waters listed in Outaouais are bigger. The closest town, Saint-Raphaël, is 32 km distant. Fort-Coulonge is 40 km and Maniwaki 45 km. It sits well inside its county, with no border complications.

• Where to Fish on Lac Telfer

  Our records carry no depth, so judge it from the bank. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Survey and observation records for Outaouais include pumpkinseed, yellow perch and smallmouth bass. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Fish Lac Telfer to its features, not to its size.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Temperature averages peak at 18°C in July and bottom out at -14°C in January. Cold locks it up for a good stretch each year. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about late April. The lid tends to go about late April and return around late November. Fishing peaks soon after break-up and again before the cold returns. Time your trip to Lac Telfer by conditions rather than dates.

• Tackle & Baits

  No public source sets out the position on this bank. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. A small crankbait along the drop and a worm in the thick stuff cover the bass. Season dates differ by species, so read the table. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. If the gate is shut, Lac a The at 0.5 km is the nearest alternative. Nothing on Lac Telfer should be assumed from this page alone.