Lac Perdu in Mauricie: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Lac Perdu falls in Mauricie, part of Quebec. Mixed forest runs right down to the water. It runs to roughly 18 hectares — big enough to hold fish away from the bank, small enough to learn. About 2.9 km of bank, so nothing stays unexplored for long. Start from Sainte-Thècle, 51 km down the road. Saint-Tite lies 51 km off, Hérouxville another 52 km. It sits well inside the county, so one set of rules covers it.

• Where to Fish on Lac Perdu

  Depth went unrecorded, which puts the reading back on you. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Public occurrence data for Mauricie names northern pike, brook trout, walleye, yellow perch and white sucker. These are county-wide records, so not all of them will be in this water. Fish Lac Perdu where the bottom changes rather than where it looks deep.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The year swings from about -15°C in January to roughly 18°C in July. The freeze arrives properly here and holds. Hard water holds through the cold months, breaking up near late April. In an average year the thaw lands around late April and the freeze near late November. Reckon on open water from spring through to late autumn, with May and June the strongest. On Lac Perdu that shapes the whole year.

• Tackle & Baits

  Ownership and access are not documented in what we hold. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. 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. Sort the permit out before you load the car. Some water is controlled locally without a sign saying so. Lac du Duche, 0.7 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Check the position at Lac Perdu before loading the car.