Lac Jalon in Mauricie: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Lac Jalon lies in Mauricie, Quebec. The setting is spruce and muskeg on every side. It covers about 7 hectares, so this is small water you can walk round in under an hour. By elevation it is in the upper part of our Quebec listings. 54 km away sits Leblanc, the nearest town. Weymontachie lies 80 km off, Manawan another 84 km. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Lac Jalon

  No published figure covers depth, so learn it as you fish. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. The shallow end warms first and pulls fish in ahead of the rest. Reported across Mauricie: northern pike, brook trout, walleye, yellow perch and white sucker. Species recorded across the county may be limited to a few waters. Lac Jalon fishes better once you know its edges.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Seasonal averages run from -17°C in January up to 16°C in July. Little of the calendar is open water, so timing counts for everything. Count on hard cover from midwinter, and open water from early May. Average temperatures cross freezing around early May in spring and again near mid November in autumn. May into June fishes hardest, and September gives a second good stretch before the lid returns. Lac Jalon runs to that rhythm year in and year out.

• Tackle & Baits

  Who may fish here is not settled in anything we hold. There is no recorded infrastructure here; expect to find your own way in. Largemouth respond to soft plastics tight to cover; go weedless where the growth is heavy. Where the road in crosses private land, ask first. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. Lac Albinos, 2.4 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Nothing here settles the position at Lac Jalon for certain.