Lac au Rat Musque, Quebec: Fishing Spots and Seasons

• Overview

  Quebec holds Lac au Rat Musque, in Mauricie. This is taiga country. Weymontachie at 41 km is the nearest place to stop. The nearest city of size is Trois-Rivières, 189 km away. Other water nearby: Lac a la Marmotte roughly 0.5 km, Lac a la Loutre at 0.7 km, Lac de l'Ours roughly 0.9 km, Le Petit Lac at 1.1 km and Lac de la Fleche roughly 1.2 km. No border sits close enough to matter.

• Where to Fish on Lac au Rat Musque

  We hold no survey for this water; read the slope of the shoreline instead. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. Open biodiversity records for Mauricie list northern pike, brook trout, walleye, yellow perch and white sucker. Take it as the county picture rather than a promise for this water. Fish Lac au Rat Musque where the bottom changes rather than where it looks deep.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July runs about 17°C on average, January about -16°C. The fishing year opens late and shuts early. Count on hard cover from midwinter, and open water from early May. The season between ice runs from about early May to mid November. Late spring and early autumn carry the year between them. Lac au Rat Musque fishes to that pattern most years.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access status is simply unknown for this water. Access is unmapped, which usually means a farm track and a walk. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Read any posted signs at the access point rather than assuming. Close seasons apply to some species and not others. Should this one be busy, Lac a la Marmotte is 0.5 km off. None of that is settled for Lac au Rat Musque in what we hold.