Lac du Pic Fishing in Mauricie, Quebec

• Overview

  You will find Lac du Pic in Mauricie, Quebec. The surface lies 479 metres up. Roughly 14 hectares: a morning covers one end, an afternoon the other. Roughly 2.0 km of bank means you can walk to a fresh area when one goes quiet. Manawan sits 58 km from the bank. Beyond it, Saint-Michel-des-Saints at 62 km and La Tuque at 68 km. It sits well inside the county, so one set of rules covers it.

• Where to Fish on Lac du Pic

  There is no recorded depth, so work from what you can see. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. Across Mauricie, recorded fish include 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. Read Lac du Pic before you fish it and the day goes better.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The seasonal spread runs -16°C to 17°C. Cold dominates the calendar on water this far north. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about early May. The open-water window runs from around early May to about mid November in an average year. May into June fishes hardest, and September gives a second good stretch before the lid returns. That is the shape of the year on Lac du Pic.

• Tackle & Baits

  We have no record of the rules that apply on this bank. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. Access points are not mapped for this water, which suits people who like quiet. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Rules differ from one water to the next round here. Barbless rules turn up on managed water more often than not. Failing this one, try Lac du Sansonnet, 0.8 km away. Nothing on Lac du Pic should be assumed from this page alone.