Lac Martel Fishing Guide, Mauricie, Quebec

• Overview

  This water sits in Mauricie, Quebec. The water sits 182 metres up. The water measures roughly 5 hectares, so nothing here is far from anything else. It lies lower than most water we list in Quebec. Head to Shawinigan, 7.1 km away, for anything you forgot. The big place round here is Trois-Rivières, 32 km distant. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Lac Martel

  Depth is not on record here, so the bank has to tell you. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Open biodiversity records for Mauricie list northern pike, brook trout, walleye, yellow perch and white sucker. Records at county level tell you what is around, not what is stocked here. Lac Martel fishes better once you know its edges.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Long-term averages put July at about 19°C and January near -14°C. Spring and autumn carry the fishing; summer and winter test it. Firm cover through the cold months, then open water from late April. Break-up near late April, freeze-up near late November: that is the shape of an average year. The open run goes from the thaw to the freeze, and April through October covers most of it. Lac Martel runs to that rhythm year in and year out.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. Nothing built is recorded close to the bank here. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Where a permit is needed, the nearest town usually sells it. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. Lac de la Souche, 2.8 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Nothing here settles the position at Lac Martel for certain.