Fishing at Petit lac du Brochet, Outaouais, Quebec

• Overview

  You will find Petit lac du Brochet in Outaouais, Quebec. The bank is 331 metres above sea level. Small at around 5 hectares: two anglers spread out cover most of it. Start from Wakefield, 9.6 km down the road. Val-des-Monts follows at 17 km, then Cantley at 21 km. Within easy reach: Lac aux Billots a touch under 0.7 km, Lac du Brochet (0.9 km), Lac Herring a touch under 1.3 km, Petit lac Herring (1.4 km) and Petit lac Clair a touch under 2 km. Rules here are straightforward: one set of provincial rules.

• Where to Fish on Petit lac du Brochet

  No chart reached our records; the first cast is your sounding. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Survey and observation records for Outaouais include pumpkinseed, yellow perch, smallmouth bass, rainbow smelt and Iowa darter. The list covers the county rather than this water alone, so treat it as a guide. At Petit lac du Brochet the water rewards a slow, careful approach.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Long-run averages give July about 19°C and January about -13°C. Four clear seasons, with a proper winter at one end. Look for the thaw near late April; the fishing lifts straight after. In an average year the thaw lands around late April and the freeze near early December. Just after the ice goes and just before it returns, the fishing lifts. Time your trip to Petit lac du Brochet by conditions rather than dates.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing on record says whether the bank is open or closed. No built facilities appear in mapping around this water. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Some banks are open only from a marked point. Some ground is open by custom rather than by right, so tread carefully. For a change of water, Lac aux Billots is 0.7 km distant. Nothing on Petit lac du Brochet should be assumed from this page alone.