Lac Crete Fishing near La Tuque, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac Crete falls in Mauricie, part of Quebec. Height above sea level is 307 metres. At about 37 hectares, a day is enough to walk the shoreline properly. The edge runs 4.0 km or so, easy to work in an afternoon. Size puts it in the front rank of our Mauricie list. For a base, La Tuque sits 29 km out. Weymontachie lies 70 km off, Laurentides another 74 km. It sits well inside the county, so one set of rules covers it.

• Where to Fish on Lac Crete

  The records we hold are silent on depth, so plan to find it yourself. 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. Fish documented in Mauricie include northern pike, brook trout and walleye. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Fish Lac Crete where the bottom changes rather than where it looks deep.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Expect July near 17°C and January near -16°C on the long-run figures. The freeze arrives properly here and holds. The lid arrives early and lasts until roughly late April. In an average year the thaw lands around late April and the freeze near late November. Right after break-up, and again as the nights sharpen, is when to go. Expect Lac Crete to follow that timing.

• Tackle & Baits

  Public sources are silent on who controls the bank. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. There is no recorded infrastructure here; expect to find your own way in. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Where access is informal, keep it that way by behaving. Close seasons apply to some species and not others. The nearest alternative is Lac Bordeleau, 3.7 km out. Confirm before you fish Lac Crete.