Lac du Portage Fishing near Weymontachie, Quebec

• Overview

  Within Mauricie, Quebec, you have Lac du Portage. The water sits 424 metres up. This is a pocket water of some 9 hectares, and every part of it is reachable from the bank. Weymontachie sits 34 km from the bank. Trois-Rivières sits 214 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. In the same area: Lac Ferroue lies 3.2 km on, Petit lac Huot 3.9 km off, Lac au Rat lies 4.1 km on, Lac Gregoire 4.9 km off and Lac Sam lies 5.5 km on. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Lac du Portage

  No published figure covers depth, so learn it as you fish. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. County-wide records name northern pike, brook trout, walleye, yellow perch and white sucker. Records at county level tell you what is around, not what is stocked here. On Lac du Portage a short move beats a long cast.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July is the warm end of the year here, averaging about 16°C, while January sits near -16°C. The fishing year opens late and shuts early. Once it clears, about early May, the fishing comes on quickly. Ice clears near early May and comes back about mid November in a typical year. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. At Lac du Portage the season follows that pattern closely.

• Tackle & Baits

  There is no clear statement anywhere on who can fish it. There is no recorded infrastructure here; expect to find your own way in. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Rules for this water may differ from the county norm. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. Lac Ferroue, 3.2 km away, makes the obvious fallback. None of that is settled for Lac du Portage in what we hold.