Lac Discovery in Abitibi-Témiscamingue: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Lac Discovery is an Abitibi-Témiscamingue water, Quebec side. Everything around it is rolling bush. At about 20 hectares, a day is enough to walk the shoreline properly. The bank runs about 2.3 km all the way round, so one visit can cover most of it. Some 50 km away sits Saint-Isidore, the nearest settlement. Greater Sudbury sits 193 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Lac Discovery

  No depth figure appears in our records, so the bank has to tell you. 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 Abitibi-Témiscamingue, recorded fish include northern pike, yellow perch and walleye. These are county-wide records, so not all of them will be in this water. Treat Lac Discovery as a water to read rather than to cover.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Typical July readings run about 18°C; by January the average is down near -15°C. Hard water is a season in its own right here. Expect a solid lid for months and a thaw around late April. Going by climate averages, expect open water from about late April until roughly late November. Just after the ice goes and just before it returns, the fishing lifts. Anyone fishing Lac Discovery regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing in our records says who may fish here. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. No launch point is recorded nearby, so this is a bank water unless you carry a boat in. A wire trace and a big bright lure handle the pike; deep water asks for a heavier spoon. Some banks are open only from a marked point. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. For a change of water, Lac Sec is 1.2 km distant. Nothing on Lac Discovery should be assumed from this page alone.