Lac au Raton Fishing near La Tuque, Quebec

• Overview

  You will find Lac au Raton in Mauricie, Quebec. The bank is 358 metres above sea level. At about 27 hectares, a day is enough to walk the shoreline properly. A shoreline of some 2.7 km keeps the choices simple. The nearest town is La Tuque, 38 km away. Laurentides is 45 km and Saint-Raymond 80 km. Rules here are straightforward: one set of provincial rules.

• Where to Fish on Lac au Raton

  No chart reached our records; the first cast is your sounding. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Records held for Mauricie cover northern pike, brook trout, walleye, yellow perch and white sucker. Read it as a county summary, not a water-by-water list. At Lac au Raton the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages here run 17°C at the top of summer and -16°C at the bottom of winter. A full turn of seasons, with the strongest sport on either side of summer. The lid usually goes in early May, which opens the strongest weeks of the year. The open-water window runs from around early May to about mid November in an average year. Late spring and early autumn carry the year between them. Keep it in mind when planning a trip to Lac au Raton.

• Tackle & Baits

  Our records carry no access rule either way. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. Nothing is mapped in the way of a ramp or car park within a short radius. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Gates get locked out of season on water like this. Fishing rules and camping rules are set separately here. The nearest alternative is Lac des Hirondelles, 1.3 km out. Treat access at Lac au Raton as something to verify.