Lac Kelly Fishing near Laurentides, Quebec

• Overview

  This water sits in Mauricie, Quebec. The ground round it is spruce and muskeg. At about 14 hectares, a day is enough to walk the shoreline properly. A shoreline of some 2.6 km keeps the choices simple. The closest town, Laurentides, is 55 km away. For a city, La Cité-Limoilou is 103 km off. Rules here are straightforward: one set of provincial rules.

• Where to Fish on Lac Kelly

  We hold no depth figure for this one. The shallow end warms first and pulls fish in ahead of the rest. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Open biodiversity records for Mauricie list northern pike, brook trout, walleye and yellow perch. These are county-wide records, so not all of them will be in this water. Work Lac Kelly in sections rather than trying to cover it.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Climate records put July near 16°C and January near -16°C. Ice holds for a long stretch, so the open weeks matter more here than further south. Ice is part of the season here, ending near early May. Averages suggest open water from about early May through to roughly mid November. Just after the ice goes and just before it returns, the fishing lifts. Expect Lac Kelly to follow that timing.

• Tackle & Baits

  No public source sets out the position on this bank. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. The map shows no ramp or car park nearby, so this is a walk-in water. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Parking space is the usual limit rather than the bank itself. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. Lac Vann, 1.1 km away, makes the obvious fallback. The position on Lac Kelly is worth confirming on the day.