Lac Day Fishing near Weymontachie, Quebec

• Overview

  In Quebec, Lac Day falls inside Mauricie. It stands 408 metres above sea level. At about 27 hectares, a day is enough to walk the shoreline properly. The whole outline is near 3.5 km, and most of it is walkable. The closest town, Weymontachie, is 35 km away. Trois-Rivières is the closest city, 191 km away. Not far off: Lac de la Souris at 1.8 km, Lac Lortie sits 3.2 km out, Lac Emile at 3.9 km, Lac Cecile sits 4.6 km out and Lac Bellard at 5.3 km. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Lac Day

  No depth figure has reached our records, which makes a plummet useful. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Public occurrence data for Mauricie names northern pike, brook trout, walleye and yellow perch. These are county-wide records, so not all of them will be in this water. Fish Lac Day to its features, not to its size.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July is the warm end of the year here, averaging about 16°C, while January sits near -16°C. Cold dominates the year and the fishing works around it. Once it clears, about early May, the fishing comes on quickly. The water is typically free of ice between early May and mid November. Spring is short and heavy here; autumn is longer and steadier. That is the shape of the year on Lac Day.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. There is no mapped parking or launch nearby, which keeps numbers down. Largemouth respond to soft plastics tight to cover; go weedless where the growth is heavy. Some banks are open only from a marked point. Barbless rules turn up on managed water more often than not. If the gate is shut, Lac de la Souris at 1.8 km is the nearest alternative. Treat Lac Day as unsettled until someone local tells you otherwise.