Lac du Grand Fond Fishing in Mauricie, Quebec

• Overview

  You will find Lac du Grand Fond in Mauricie, Quebec. Boreal forest runs right down to the water. Small at around 7 hectares: two anglers spread out cover most of it. You are 68 km from Leblanc. It is 241 km to Saguenay, the nearest city. Within a short drive: Lac du Poulet a touch under 0.6 km, Petit lac Kirb some 1.8 km off, Lac Beriaux a touch under 2.2 km, Lac Kirb some 2.2 km off and Lac Britton a touch under 2.3 km. It sits well inside its county, with no border complications.

• Where to Fish on Lac du Grand Fond

  No chart reached our records; the first cast is your sounding. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. This is a lake, so the margins and the first drop matter most. Records held for Mauricie cover northern pike, brook trout, walleye, yellow perch and white sucker. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Anyone new to Lac du Grand Fond should walk it once before setting up.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages here run 16°C at the top of summer and -18°C at the bottom of winter. Open water arrives late and leaves early, which concentrates the fishing. The freeze runs deep into the year, with break-up near early May. Average temperatures cross freezing around early May in spring and again near mid November in autumn. Fish feed hardest at the start and the close of the open season. At Lac du Grand Fond the season follows that pattern closely.

• Tackle & Baits

  We have no record of the rules that apply on this bank. 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. Parking is often the real limit rather than the bank itself. Some ground is open by custom rather than by right, so tread carefully. Lac du Poulet, 0.6 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Treat access at Lac du Grand Fond as something to verify.