Full sun on the water today, with hardly a ripple anywhere and pressure sitting still. Give structure within a cast of the bank the first hour at Lac Foley. A hard day on paper; the night edges the rest. Scale down and fish slowly. Autumn fish are feeding up and less fussy than in summer.
The bites are poor now
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Set in Quebec, this is Lac Foley. The surface lies 270 metres up. Surface area is around 35 hectares, which gives you real water without needing a boat. A shoreline of some 3.1 km keeps the choices simple. For a base, Mattawa sits 26 km out. It is 173 km to Greater Sudbury, the nearest city. It lies deep inside the county rather than near an edge.
Nothing in our records gives a depth for this one. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. At Lac Foley the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes. When the water is clear, go lighter and further out.
Averages here run 18°C at the top of summer and -14°C at the bottom of winter. The year splits cleanly: hard water, then open water. Hard cover is dependable here; it goes around late April. Average temperatures cross freezing around late April in spring and again near late November in autumn. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. At Lac Foley the season follows that pattern closely.
Access status is simply unknown for this water. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. No built facilities appear in mapping around this water. Read any posted signs at the access point rather than assuming. Barbless rules turn up on managed water more often than not. Lac de la Trompette, 2.3 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Nothing here settles the position at Lac Foley for certain.
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The bites are poor now
| 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| 14.4 | 16.8 | 19.1 | 18.6 | 18 | 18.4 | 18 | 16.9 | 13.1 | 13.8 | 15.9 | 17 | 16.1 | 16.4 | 16.7 | 16.2 | 14.2 | 12.8 | 11 | 9.6 | 7.3 | 7.2 | 6.6 | 4.9 |
| 8° | 9° | 9° | 10° | 10° | 11° | 11° | 11° | 11° | 12° | 13° | 15° | 16° | 17° | 17° | 17° | 17° | 16° | 15° | 13° | 12° | 11° | 10° | 9° |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 101 | 101 | 101 | 101 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| 75 | 77 | 81 | 83 | 83 | 82 | 83 | 86 | 89 | 87 | 82 | 79 | 74 | 70 | 66 | 63 | 60 | 58 | 64 | 72 | 75 | 79 | 83 | 86 |
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