Lac des Pattes, Quebec: Fishing Spots and Seasons

• Overview

  Look for Lac des Pattes in Mauricie, Quebec. Everything around it is boreal forest. It covers about 9 hectares, so this is small water you can walk round in under an hour. By elevation it is in the upper part of our Quebec listings. Some 63 km away sits Weymontachie, the nearest settlement. Saguenay sits 155 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. There is no boundary nearby to worry about.

• Where to Fish on Lac des Pattes

  No published figure covers depth, so learn it as you fish. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Across Mauricie, recorded fish include northern pike, brook trout and walleye. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Lac des Pattes repays a walk before the first cast.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warm month here averages 16°C; the cold one sits at -18°C. Everything is compressed into the middle of the year. Expect a solid lid for months and a thaw around early May. Open water usually runs from early May until about mid November. The open run goes from the thaw to the freeze, and April through October covers most of it. It holds true on Lac des Pattes more years than not.

• Tackle & Baits

  The access position is unclear from public sources. No built facilities appear in mapping around this water. Largemouth respond to soft plastics tight to cover; go weedless where the growth is heavy. Some banks are open only from a marked point. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. Should this one be busy, Lac des Roches Vertes is 1.2 km off. Treat Lac des Pattes as unsettled until someone local tells you otherwise.