Lac Fairs Fishing Guide, Mauricie, Quebec

• Overview

  Look for Lac Fairs in Mauricie, Quebec. It stands 426 metres above sea level. Small at around 6 hectares: two anglers spread out cover most of it. Nearest town is Leblanc, 80 km off. Trois-Rivières sits 289 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. Others worth noting: Lac Lupien (1 km), 1.3 km out stands Lac Wells, Lac Duquette (1.5 km), 1.9 km out stands Lac Seal and Lac Gregoire (2 km). It sits well inside the county, so one set of rules covers it.

• Where to Fish on Lac Fairs

  Open data we checked carries no depth for this water. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Public occurrence data for Mauricie names northern pike, brook trout, walleye, yellow perch and white sucker. Records at county level tell you what is around, not what is stocked here. The near bank of Lac Fairs is often the one people ignore.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warmest month averages 16°C, the coldest about -18°C. Open water arrives late and leaves early, which concentrates the fishing. Break-up comes around early May, and the run that follows is short and strong. Break-up sits around early May on average, with the water closing again about mid November. Early summer and early autumn carry the open-water season. On Lac Fairs that shapes the whole year.

• Tackle & Baits

  Who may fish here is not settled in anything we hold. We find no slipway, car park or made path within a short radius, so treat access as rough. 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. Signs go up and come down, so check on the day. Lac Lupien, 1 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Where Lac Fairs is concerned, a local answer beats a written one.