Lac Pat in Mauricie: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  In Quebec, Lac Pat falls inside Mauricie. It sits at 426 metres above sea level. At about 68 hectares, a day is enough to walk the shoreline properly. With 5.2 km or so of shoreline, boat anglers cover ground the bank cannot. Few waters listed in Mauricie are bigger. For a base, Leblanc sits 81 km out. Further out sit Weymontachie (127 km) and Manawan (132 km). Rules here are straightforward: one set of provincial rules.

• Where to Fish on Lac Pat

  The records we hold are silent on depth, so plan to find it yourself. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Open biodiversity records for Mauricie list northern pike, brook trout, walleye, yellow perch and white sucker. County records show what lives in the area; the local agency holds the water-by-water list. On Lac Pat the obvious spot is not always the productive one.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warm month here averages 16°C; the cold one sits at -18°C. The season is measured in weeks rather than months. Firm cover through the cold months, then open water from early May. Expect the water usable from around early May until roughly mid November. May into June fishes hardest, and September gives a second good stretch before the lid returns. The season on Lac Pat follows the weather closely.

• Tackle & Baits

  Who may fish here is not settled in anything we hold. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. No made access is recorded, so a short walk in is the likely arrangement. A small crankbait along the drop and a worm in the thick stuff cover the bass. Some banks are open only from a marked point. Where tickets apply, they are sold in the nearest town rather than on the bank. Lac Tozer, 1.1 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Confirm before you fish Lac Pat.