Overcast skies today, with a proper ripple driven from the SSW with the glass holding level. Whatever swims in Lac Buies should be near the first drop-off and weed lines. The forecast is against you; the morning is the least bad option. Treat it as a scouting trip with a rod in hand.
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Lac Buies sits in Mauricie, out in Quebec. It stands 411 metres above sea level. Head to Leblanc, 73 km away, for anything you forgot. Weymontachie lies 119 km off, Manawan another 126 km. Nearest other option: Lac Foligne within 1.1 km, Lac Faucher sits 4.6 km out, Lac Baril within 5.1 km, Lac Clairville sits 5.2 km out and Lac Tourigny within 5.7 km. This one is safely inside the county line.
Nothing we hold settles how deep this runs. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Public occurrence data for Mauricie names northern pike, brook trout and walleye. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Lac Buies gives up its fish to patience rather than distance.
Typical July readings run about 16°C; by January the average is down near -17°C. Long winters and short summers set the pattern. Ice is part of the season here, ending near early May. In an average year the thaw lands around early May and the freeze near mid November. The strongest runs come at either end of the open season. Anyone fishing Lac Buies regularly works to that calendar.
We hold no note on access for this one. There is no mapped parking or launch close by, which usually means walking in. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Some banks are open only from a marked point. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. For a change of water, Lac Foligne is 1.1 km distant. Check the current arrangement for Lac Buies.
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The bites are poor now
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| 9 | 12.7 | 14 | 16 | 18 | 20.5 | 18 | 19.6 | 18.5 | 18.2 | 17.8 | 18.2 | 18 | 17.6 | 16.6 | 15.9 | 15.2 | 15.1 | 12.9 | 7.4 | 6.6 | 4.9 | 5.3 | 5.5 |
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