Solid cloud cover today, with a light SSW breeze with the barometer flat. The water to cover at Lac Nahuja is windblown banks where food collects. The forecast is against you; the night is the least bad option. One good spot fished well beats five fished quickly. Autumn fish are feeding up and less fussy than in summer.
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Look for Lac Nahuja in the Outaouais part of Quebec. It sits in rolling bush. Around 22 hectares of surface means several distinct areas to work. With about 3.7 km of edge, you can try several depths in one session. You are 64 km from Saint-Boniface. For a city, Gatineau is 174 km off. Within a short drive: Lac Ydes within 0.9 km, Lac Vacca roughly 1.4 km, Lac Tabre within 1.5 km, Lac Valady roughly 1.7 km and Lac Wamin within 1.8 km. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.
Depth is unmeasured here, so let the shoreline guide you. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. Open biodiversity records for Outaouais list pumpkinseed, yellow perch, smallmouth bass and rainbow smelt. What holds for the county may not hold for this water. At Lac Nahuja the water rewards a slow, careful approach.
Expect July near 17°C and January near -17°C on the long-run figures. Cold locks it up for a good stretch each year. Look for the thaw near early May; the fishing lifts straight after. The water is typically free of ice between early May and late November. The weeks after the thaw and the ones before the freeze are the strongest. The season on Lac Nahuja rarely departs from it.
Our records carry no access rule either way. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. No launch point is recorded nearby, so this is a bank water unless you carry a boat in. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Check whether a boat is allowed before you tow one. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. Lac Ydes, 0.9 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Nothing here settles the position at Lac Nahuja for certain.
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| 11 | 13.6 | 15.6 | 17.4 | 16.1 | 17.3 | 15.6 | 17.3 | 15.2 | 17.4 | 13.2 | 12.9 | 14.7 | 14.7 | 12.9 | 13.6 | 13.8 | 13.6 | 7.5 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 6.6 | 3.8 | 5 |
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| 77 | 79 | 86 | 90 | 91 | 91 | 90 | 92 | 93 | 93 | 93 | 92 | 90 | 87 | 85 | 82 | 81 | 85 | 88 | 92 | 92 | 92 | 93 | 93 |
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