Lac Jurat Fishing Guide, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac Jurat lies within the bounds of Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec. It stands 377 metres above sea level. At 6 hectares it is the sort of place you fish for an evening rather than a day. Head to Val-d'Or, 83 km away, for anything you forgot. After that come Senneterre at 86 km and Barraute at 102 km. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Lac Jurat

  There is no published depth for this one, so start shallow and work out. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Records held for Abitibi-Témiscamingue cover northern pike, yellow perch and walleye. County records show the wider picture rather than this one place. At Lac Jurat the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  In an average year July sits at 17°C and January at -17°C. Winter runs most of the calendar, and everything worth doing happens in the gap. The lid usually goes in early May, which opens the strongest weeks of the year. Break-up sits around early May on average, with the water closing again about mid November. The middle of summer slows a little, with dawn and dusk carrying it. At Lac Jurat the season follows that pattern closely.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. We find no slipway, car park or made path within a short radius, so treat access as rough. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. A landowner's word beats anything printed elsewhere. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. Should this one be busy, Lac Abraxas is 0.9 km off. What applies at Lac Jurat may have changed since it was mapped.