Lac Morin in Mauricie: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Out in Mauricie, Quebec, sits Lac Morin. The water sits 397 metres up. It runs to roughly 19 hectares — big enough to hold fish away from the bank, small enough to learn. With about 1.4 km of edge, you can try several depths in one session. Some 28 km away sits Weymontachie, the nearest settlement. After that come Leblanc at 37 km and Manawan at 85 km. No county line comes close, which keeps the paperwork simple.

• Where to Fish on Lac Morin

  We hold no depth figure for this one. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Mauricie records list northern pike, brook trout and walleye among the fish reported. These are county-wide records, so not all of them will be in this water. On Lac Morin that means starting tight and working out.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July is the warm end of the year here, averaging about 16°C, while January sits near -17°C. Open water is the exception rather than the rule here. The lid arrives early and lasts until roughly early May. The season between ice runs from about early May to mid November. The weeks after the thaw and the ones before the freeze are the strongest. Lac Morin fishes to that pattern most years.

• Tackle & Baits

  The access position is unclear from public sources. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. Check locally before you travel, because a wasted drive is a long one. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. Should this one be busy, Lac Cowin is 2 km off. For Lac Morin, the notice at the access point is the final word.