Lac Fabien in Mauricie: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Lac Fabien is a Mauricie water, in Quebec. Boreal forest runs right down to the water. It covers about 10 hectares, so this is small water you can walk round in under an hour. Around 1.9 km of margin, front to back. Nearest place of any size is La Tuque, 55 km away. It is 113 km to Saguenay, the nearest city. The county line is nowhere near, so one local authority covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Lac Fabien

  Nothing in our records gives a depth for this one. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Mauricie records list northern pike, brook trout and walleye among the fish reported. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Read Lac Fabien before you fish it and the day goes better.

• Seasonal Patterns

  On the long-term average, July reads 17°C and January reads -16°C. Everything is compressed into the middle of the year. Hard cover is dependable here; it goes around early May. Averages suggest open water from about early May through to roughly mid November. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. The season on Lac Fabien rarely departs from it.

• Tackle & Baits

  Who may fish here is not settled in anything we hold. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. Public data shows nothing built here, so treat the whole approach as informal. A small crankbait along the drop and a worm in the thick stuff cover the bass. Where the road in crosses private land, ask first. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. For a change of water, Lac Lagace is 0.7 km distant. Where Lac Fabien is concerned, a local answer beats a written one.