Lac Boisvert in Lanaudière: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Quebec holds Lac Boisvert, in Lanaudière. The setting is mixed forest. Small at around 3 hectares: two anglers spread out cover most of it. Most waters listed here for Lanaudière are larger. Mandeville is the closest place, 27 km off. The big place round here is Trois-Rivières, 87 km distant. It sits well inside the county, so one set of rules covers it.

• Where to Fish on Lac Boisvert

  We hold no survey for this water; read the slope of the shoreline instead. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. Lanaudière records list pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass, yellow perch, rock bass and brook trout among the fish reported. Records at this level tell you what is in the area. Read Lac Boisvert before you fish it and the day goes better.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages here run 17°C at the top of summer and -15°C at the bottom of winter. Seasons are distinct, and each one fishes differently. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about late April. The lid tends to go about late April and return around late November. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. Lac Boisvert fishes to that pattern most years.

• Tackle & Baits

  The paperwork position is blank for this one. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Gates get locked out of season on water like this. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. Should this one be busy, Lac Vert is 0.9 km off. Nothing here settles the position at Lac Boisvert for certain.