Lac des Mauves Fishing in Outaouais, Quebec

• Overview

  Within Outaouais, Quebec, you have Lac des Mauves. What surrounds it is lake country bush. It runs to roughly 20 hectares — big enough to hold fish away from the bank, small enough to learn. Ripon lies 9.7 km from the water. Saint-André-Avellin follows at 15 km, then Thurso at 22 km. Close by you have: Lac Michel 0.9 km off, Lac Herse 1.1 km, Lac des Fees 1.3 km off, Lac de la Cabane 1.4 km and Lac des Castors 1.4 km off. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.

• Where to Fish on Lac des Mauves

  Depth went unrecorded, which puts the reading back on you. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Outaouais records list pumpkinseed, yellow perch and smallmouth bass among the fish reported. Read it as a county summary, not a water-by-water list. On Lac des Mauves a short move beats a long cast.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warm month here averages 19°C; the cold one sits at -13°C. A full turn of seasons, with the strongest sport on either side of summer. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about late April. Going by climate averages, expect open water from about late April until roughly early December. The open run goes from the thaw to the freeze, and April through October covers most of it. Lac des Mauves fishes to that pattern most years.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. No made access is recorded, so a short walk in is the likely arrangement. 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. If the gate is shut, Lac Michel at 0.9 km is the nearest alternative. What applies at Lac des Mauves may have changed since it was mapped.