Fishing at Lac des Epervieres, Mauricie, Quebec

• Overview

  This water sits in Mauricie, Quebec. The surroundings are boreal forest. The water covers some 15 hectares, so pick a bank rather than trying to cover it all. The whole outline is near 3.5 km, and most of it is walkable. For supplies, Leblanc is 78 km out. Chapais follows at 102 km, then Chibougamau at 107 km. No border sits close enough to matter.

• Where to Fish on Lac des Epervieres

  Nothing in our records gives a depth for this one. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Reported across Mauricie: northern pike, brook trout and walleye. The county figures include rivers and lakes alike. Lac des Epervieres gives up more to patience than to distance.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warm month here averages 16°C; the cold one sits at -18°C. Long winters and short summers set the pattern. The lid usually sets by midwinter and gives way around early May. Going by climate averages, expect open water from about early May until roughly mid November. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. Anyone fishing Lac des Epervieres regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  We hold no note on access for this one. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, 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. Look for a notice board at the entrance. Fishing rules and camping rules are set separately here. For a change of water, Lac Dieme is 0.8 km distant. Check the current arrangement for Lac des Epervieres.