Lac du Chaton Fishing Guide, Mauricie, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac du Chaton belongs to Mauricie, Quebec. Height above sea level is 517 metres. At 5 hectares it is the sort of place you fish for an evening rather than a day. By elevation it is in the upper part of our Quebec listings. Start from Weymontachie, 39 km down the road. For a city, Saguenay is 175 km off. The county line is nowhere near, so one local authority covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Lac du Chaton

  Depth is unmeasured here, so let the shoreline guide you. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Open biodiversity records for Mauricie list northern pike, brook trout and walleye. What holds for the county may not hold for this water. Take Lac du Chaton a stretch at a time.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Climate records put July near 16°C and January near -17°C. Everything is compressed into the middle of the year. Count on hard cover from midwinter, and open water from early May. Break-up sits around early May on average, with the water closing again about mid November. The open run goes from the thaw to the freeze, and April through October covers most of it. Expect Lac du Chaton to follow that timing.

• Tackle & Baits

  The paperwork position is blank for this one. No launch point is recorded nearby, so this is a bank water unless you carry a boat in. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Provincial rules still apply whatever the bank status. Close seasons apply to some species and not others. For a change of water, Lac Coupe is 0.7 km distant. For Lac du Chaton, the notice at the access point is the final word.