Lac Travers Fishing near Saint-Ubalde, Quebec

• Overview

  You will find Lac Travers in Capitale-Nationale, Quebec. The water sits 181 metres up. The water covers some 20 hectares, so pick a bank rather than trying to cover it all. About 2.3 km of bank, so nothing stays unexplored for long. Size puts it in the front rank of our Capitale-Nationale list. Saint-Ubalde lies 17 km from the water. Saint-Marc-des-Carrières lies 21 km off, Saint-Raymond another 22 km. It sits well inside the county, so one set of rules covers it.

• Where to Fish on Lac Travers

  No published figure covers depth, so learn it as you fish. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Open biodiversity records for Capitale-Nationale list lake sturgeon, Atlantic sturgeon, longnose sucker, sauger and channel catfish. Several of these carry legal protection or closed seasons; the rulebook comes before the rod. Read Lac Travers for ten minutes before the first cast goes out.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The year swings from about -14°C in January to roughly 18°C in July. A solid cap is the normal state through winter. Look for the thaw near late April; the fishing lifts straight after. Going by climate averages, expect open water from about late April until roughly late November. September and October fish steadily right up to the freeze. Time your trip to Lac Travers by conditions rather than dates.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. There is no mapped parking or launch nearby, which keeps numbers down. For walleye, a jig and minnow near the bottom is the standard; evenings beat middays. Parking space is the usual limit rather than the bank itself. Keep proof of licence with you rather than in the car. Lac aux Cedres, 0.8 km away, makes the obvious fallback. For Lac Travers, the notice at the access point is the final word.