Lac aux Moustiques Fishing Guide, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac aux Moustiques sits within Abitibi-Témiscamingue in Quebec. Around the bank it is mixed forest. It runs to roughly 28 hectares — big enough to hold fish away from the bank, small enough to learn. Around 2.9 km of margin, front to back. For supplies, Mattawa is 42 km out. Greater Sudbury sits 207 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. The county line is nowhere near, so one local authority covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Lac aux Moustiques

  Nothing we hold settles how deep this runs. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Public occurrence data for Abitibi-Témiscamingue names northern pike, yellow perch and walleye. These are county-wide records, so not all of them will be in this water. Fish Lac aux Moustiques where the bottom changes rather than where it looks deep.

• Seasonal Patterns

  In an average year July sits at 18°C and January at -14°C. Expect a real winter and a strong spring after it. Once it clears, about late April, the fishing comes on quickly. Climate averages put the opening at about late April and the closing near late November. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. Lac aux Moustiques fishes to that pattern most years.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. No made access appears within a short radius, so plan to park on a verge and walk. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Gates get locked out of season on water like this. Rules for boats are stricter than rules for the bank in many places. For a change of water, Lac Bazin is 1.9 km distant. None of that is settled for Lac aux Moustiques in what we hold.