Fishing Lac Bunny in Mauricie, Quebec

• Overview

  You will find Lac Bunny in Mauricie, Quebec. The bank gives way to boreal forest. Surface area runs to about 5 hectares — small enough to read in one session. It is one of the smaller waters we list in Mauricie. Nearest town is Saint-Michel-des-Saints, 56 km off. Then Manawan, 66 km, and La Tuque, 67 km. More in the same country: Lac Gonzales 0.8 km, Lac du Grebe a touch under 1.1 km, Lac Barbeau 1.2 km, Lac du Carex a touch under 1.5 km and Lac Roy 1.6 km. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.

• Where to Fish on Lac Bunny

  There is no published depth for this one, so start shallow and work out. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. Public occurrence data for Mauricie names northern pike, brook trout, walleye and yellow perch. Records at this level tell you what is in the area. On Lac Bunny the obvious spot is not always the productive one.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The range across the year is -16°C to 17°C. Little of the calendar is open water, so timing counts for everything. The lid usually sets by midwinter and gives way around early May. The season between ice runs from about early May to mid November. Reckon on open water from spring through to late autumn, with May and June the strongest. Expect Lac Bunny to follow that timing.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. Nothing is mapped in the way of a ramp or car park within a short radius. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Rules differ from one water to the next round here. Some water is controlled locally without a sign saying so. Lac Gonzales, 0.8 km away, makes the obvious fallback. What applies at Lac Bunny may have changed since it was mapped.