Fishing at Lac Dany, Mauricie, Quebec

• Overview

  Quebec holds Lac Dany, in Mauricie. The bank is 490 metres above sea level. With some 14 hectares of water, there is room for a boat but no need of one. With about 2.5 km of edge, you can try several depths in one session. Nearest place of any size is Weymontachie, 47 km away. After that come Saint-Félicien at 83 km and La Tuque at 83 km. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Lac Dany

  There is no published depth for this one, so start shallow and work out. The shallow end warms first and pulls fish in ahead of the rest. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Records held for Mauricie cover northern pike, brook trout, walleye, yellow perch and white sucker. What holds for the county may not hold for this water. At Lac Dany the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages here run 16°C at the top of summer and -17°C at the bottom of winter. This far north the hard season runs and runs. The lid arrives early and lasts until roughly early May. The open-water window runs from around early May to about mid November in an average year. May into June fishes hardest, and September gives a second good stretch before the lid returns. Expect Lac Dany to follow that timing.

• Tackle & Baits

  We hold no note on access for this one. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. No built facilities appear in mapping around this water. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Check whether a boat is allowed before you tow one. Fishing rules and camping rules are set separately here. Lac Gina, 0.8 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Nothing on Lac Dany should be assumed from this page alone.