Petit lac Napt Fishing Guide, Outaouais, Quebec

• Overview

  Quebec holds Petit lac Napt, in Outaouais. Everything around it is mixed forest. It covers about 6 hectares, so this is small water you can walk round in under an hour. Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel at 15 km is the nearest place to stop. Orléans sits 84 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. It sits well inside its county, with no border complications.

• Where to Fish on Petit lac Napt

  Our records hold no depth for this water. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Records held for Outaouais cover pumpkinseed, yellow perch, smallmouth bass, rainbow smelt and Iowa darter. Records at county level tell you what is around, not what is stocked here. Fish Petit lac Napt to its features, not to its size.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages here run 19°C at the top of summer and -14°C at the bottom of winter. Four clear seasons, with a proper winter at one end. Ice is part of the season here, ending near late April. On the long-run averages the water opens up around late April and starts locking again about late November. May into June fishes hardest, and September gives a second good stretch before the lid returns. Time your trip to Petit lac Napt by conditions rather than dates.

• Tackle & Baits

  The paperwork position is blank for this one. Public data shows nothing built here, so treat the whole approach as informal. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Read any posted signs at the access point rather than assuming. Rules for boats are stricter than rules for the bank in many places. For a change of water, Lac Napt is 0.2 km distant. Treat Petit lac Napt as unsettled until someone local tells you otherwise.