Petit lac Long near Mont-Laurier: Fishing Spots, Seasons and Access

• Overview

  Petit lac Long is one of the Laurentides listings for Quebec. Land around it is pine and birch. Surface area is around 12 hectares, which gives you real water without needing a boat. Shoreline comes to about 2.0 km, small enough to learn in a day. By elevation it sits in the lower part of our Quebec listings. For a base, Mont-Laurier sits 21 km out. For a city, Gatineau is 101 km off. No county line comes close, which keeps the paperwork simple.

• Where to Fish on Petit lac Long

  Depth figures are not published for this one. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Reported across Laurentides: pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass, yellow perch, brook trout and rock bass. Read it as a county summary, not a water-by-water list. Petit lac Long gives up more to patience than to distance.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Long-term averages put July at about 18°C and January near -14°C. A hard winter is normal, and the thaw brings a strong few weeks. The freeze runs deep into the year, with break-up near late April. Expect the water usable from around late April until roughly late November. Right after break-up, and again as the nights sharpen, is when to go. On Petit lac Long that shapes the whole year.

• Tackle & Baits

  The rules here are undocumented as far as public sources go. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. No built facilities appear in mapping around this water. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Some banks are open only from a marked point. Check whether bait restrictions apply before you buy any. Lac Brule, 1.5 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Treat Petit lac Long as unsettled until someone local tells you otherwise.