Lac du Butor Fishing near Saint-Élie-de-Caxton, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac du Butor belongs to Mauricie, Quebec. The country here is mixed forest. The water measures roughly 6 hectares, so nothing here is far from anything else. You are 36 km from Saint-Élie-de-Caxton. Then Mandeville, 36 km, and Saint-Gabriel, 44 km. Water in the same corner: Lac Bourassa a touch under 1.3 km, Lac du Vireo out at 1.4 km, Lac du Duc a touch under 1.7 km, Lac Allard out at 2.6 km and Lac Simon a touch under 2.8 km. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Lac du Butor

  There is no recorded depth, so work from what you can see. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Mauricie records list northern pike, brook trout and walleye among the fish reported. County data is a starting point rather than a guarantee. On Lac du Butor the obvious spot is not always the productive one.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The range across the year is -15°C to 18°C. Cold locks it up for a good stretch each year. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about late April. Break-up near late April, freeze-up near late November: that is the shape of an average year. The middle of summer slows a little, with dawn and dusk carrying it. That is the shape of the year on Lac du Butor.

• Tackle & Baits

  Public data does not answer the access question here. Public data shows nothing built here, so treat the whole approach as informal. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Check locally before you travel, because a wasted drive is a long one. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. If the gate is shut, Lac Bourassa at 1.3 km is the nearest alternative. Signs at Lac du Butor carry more weight than any list.