Fishing Lac du Chaton in Mauricie, Quebec

• Overview

  You will find Lac du Chaton in Mauricie, Quebec. The setting is taiga. It runs to roughly 13 hectares — big enough to hold fish away from the bank, small enough to learn. Shoreline comes to about 1.9 km, small enough to learn in a day. The nearest place of any size is Leblanc, 56 km away. Weymontachie lies 83 km off, Manawan another 86 km. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Lac du Chaton

  Our records carry no depth, so judge it from the bank. 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. Across Mauricie, recorded fish include northern pike, brook trout, walleye, yellow perch and white sucker. County data is a starting point rather than a guarantee. Lac du Chaton responds to conditions more than to tactics.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The range across the year is -17°C to 16°C. Everything is compressed into the middle of the year. After early May the shallows warm and the fish move up. Climate figures give an open season running early May to mid November. The strongest runs come at either end of the open season. Anyone fishing Lac du Chaton regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing we hold confirms whether access is permitted. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. Access is unmapped, which usually means a farm track and a walk. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Where the road in crosses private land, ask first. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. Lac Foin sits 2.7 km off and takes the overflow. Where Lac du Chaton is concerned, a local answer beats a written one.