A closed sky with even light today, with calm air over the water with a settled glass. The water to cover at Lac Mysterieux is the margins and the shelf beyond them. One clear peak today: the morning. Fish confidently and change only when the bites stop. Cooling water has fish active and on the move.
The bites are poor now
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The Mauricie end of Quebec holds Lac Mysterieux. Beyond the shoreline you have rolling bush. Start from Manawan, 61 km down the road. It is 126 km to Trois-Rivières, the nearest city. If this one is busy: Lac de la Butte a shade over 0.5 km, Lac Bruin roughly 0.8 km, Lac Vide a shade over 0.9 km, Lac Dimere roughly 1.6 km and Lac du Soja a shade over 1.8 km. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.
Our records hold no depth for this water. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. This is a lake, so the margins and the first drop matter most. Open biodiversity records for Mauricie list northern pike, brook trout and walleye. County records show what lives in the area; the local agency holds the water-by-water list. On Lac Mysterieux a short move beats a long cast.
July is the warm end of the year here, averaging about 17°C, while January sits near -16°C. Winter shuts the surface down for months. Hard water holds through the cold months, breaking up near early May. In an average year the thaw lands around early May and the freeze near mid November. May into June fishes hardest, and September gives a second good stretch before the lid returns. The season on Lac Mysterieux follows the weather closely.
Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. No made access is recorded, so a short walk in is the likely arrangement. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Gates get locked out of season on water like this. Barbless rules turn up on managed water more often than not. Lac de la Butte at 0.5 km is the sensible second choice. Confirm access to Lac Mysterieux locally before you travel.
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| 6.4 | 6.5 | 7.2 | 7.5 | 8.7 | 10.8 | 11 | 14.5 | 14.8 | 18.3 | 15.3 | 14.5 | 13.7 | 14.3 | 15.6 | 16.5 | 15.2 | 15 | 13.6 | 11.7 | 10.9 | 10.5 | 10.9 | 8.8 |
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