Lac du Souvenir Fishing Guide, Mauricie, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac du Souvenir sits in Mauricie, out in Quebec. The ground around here is northern bush. Around 65 hectares of surface means several distinct areas to work. Shoreline comes to about 4.8 km, small enough to learn in a day. It is among the larger waters listed here for Mauricie. Leblanc lies 71 km from the water. Trois-Rivières sits 297 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. The nearest edge is a long way off, so local rules apply throughout.

• Where to Fish on Lac du Souvenir

  The records we hold are silent on depth, so plan to find it yourself. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. 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. Lac du Souvenir responds to conditions more than to tactics.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages here run 16°C at the top of summer and -18°C at the bottom of winter. This far north the hard season runs and runs. Winter locks it down, and early May brings it back. Averages place the thaw at early May and the freeze at mid November. The middle of summer slows a little, with dawn and dusk carrying it. On Lac du Souvenir the same rules apply, with local timing.

• Tackle & Baits

  Public data does not answer the access question here. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. Public mapping records no formal access here, so plan for a walk and soft ground. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Parking space is the usual limit rather than the bank itself. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. Lac Brignolet, 1.4 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Nothing here settles the position at Lac du Souvenir for certain.