Lac Mulligan Fishing near Saint-Boniface, Quebec

• Overview

  Set in Outaouais, Quebec, this is Lac Mulligan. It sits in pine and birch country. About 8 hectares of surface, which puts the far bank inside easy sight. Some 20 km away sits Saint-Boniface, the nearest settlement. Then Maniwaki, 29 km, and Saint-Raphaël, 40 km. Others worth noting: Lac a Noel roughly 0.8 km, 2 km away is Lac du Butor, Lac Harvey roughly 2.6 km, 2.7 km away is Lac du Bras Coupe and Lac Kay roughly 2.8 km. No boundary runs near, so the local rules hold throughout.

• Where to Fish on Lac Mulligan

  No depth figure appears in our records, so the bank has to tell you. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Survey and observation records for Outaouais include pumpkinseed, yellow perch and smallmouth bass. Take it as the county picture rather than a promise for this water. Lac Mulligan gives up more to patience than to distance.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Expect July near 18°C and January near -15°C on the long-run figures. Expect a real winter and a strong spring after it. The lid usually goes in late April, which opens the strongest weeks of the year. On the long-run averages the water opens up around late April and starts locking again about late November. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. On Lac Mulligan that shapes the whole year.

• Tackle & Baits

  We hold no note on access for this one. We find no slipway, car park or made path within a short radius, so treat access as rough. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Local rules can differ across the county line, so check where you stand. Close seasons apply to some species and not others. Lac a Noel sits 0.8 km off and takes the overflow. Where Lac Mulligan is concerned, a local answer beats a written one.