Fishing Lac Carty in Mauricie, Quebec

• Overview

  Set in Mauricie, Quebec, this is Lac Carty. This is northern bush ground. The water measures roughly 8 hectares, so nothing here is far from anything else. Weymontachie sits 51 km from here and is the nearest stop. After that come La Tuque at 60 km and Roberval at 92 km. Alternatives close at hand: 2.1 km away is Lac Virginia, Lac Ken a shade over 4.7 km, 4.8 km away is Lac Pouliot, Lac Conawingo a shade over 5.1 km and 5.4 km away is Lac Ministic. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.

• Where to Fish on Lac Carty

  Without a survey to go on, judge depth from how the bank falls away. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Across Mauricie, recorded fish include northern pike, brook trout, walleye and yellow perch. Take it as the county picture rather than a promise for this water. At Lac Carty the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July is the warm end of the year here, averaging about 17°C, while January sits near -17°C. This far north the hard season runs and runs. After early May the shallows warm and the fish move up. Going by climate averages, expect open water from about early May until roughly mid November. The weeks after the thaw and the ones before the freeze are the strongest. The season on Lac Carty follows the weather closely.

• Tackle & Baits

  The rules here are undocumented as far as public sources go. We find no slipway, car park or made path within a short radius, 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. Where access is informal, keep it that way by behaving. Fishing rules and camping rules are set separately here. Lac Virginia, 2.1 km away, makes the obvious fallback. The position on Lac Carty is worth confirming on the day.