Fishing at Petit lac Metru, Laurentides, Quebec

• Overview

  Look for Petit lac Metru in the Laurentides part of Quebec. It lies 511 metres above sea level. It is high ground by Quebec standards. Nearest place of any size is Rivière-Rouge, 44 km away. Saint-Michel-des-Saints follows at 48 km, then Saint-Donat-de-Montcalm at 52 km. Nearby alternatives: 0.3 km away is Lac Metru, Lac Cote within 1.7 km, 1.9 km away is Lac Parement, Lac Elvange within 2.4 km and 2.4 km away is Lac Bagnac. It sits well inside the county, so one set of rules covers it.

• Where to Fish on Petit lac Metru

  There is no recorded depth, so work from what you can see. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. Reported across Laurentides: pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass and yellow perch. It is the county picture; the agency list is water-specific. The near bank of Petit lac Metru is often the one people ignore.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The range across the year is -15°C to 17°C. Everything is compressed into the middle of the year. Ice-out usually falls in early May, and the weeks after it fish hardest. The season between ice runs from about early May to mid November. The open run goes from the thaw to the freeze, and April through October covers most of it. It holds true on Petit lac Metru more years than not.

• Tackle & Baits

  Public data does not answer the access question here. No car park, ramp or path is recorded within easy reach of the shore. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Bank access can be seasonal on ground like this. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. Lac Metru, 0.3 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Where Petit lac Metru is concerned, a local answer beats a written one.