Lac Pygmalion Fishing in Mauricie, Quebec

• Overview

  The Mauricie entry here is Lac Pygmalion, in Quebec. Around the bank it is mixed forest. It runs to roughly 62 hectares — big enough to hold fish away from the bank, small enough to learn. The shoreline runs about 5.9 km, so it pays to pick a stretch and stay with it. Few waters listed in Mauricie are bigger. Head to Laurentides, 36 km away, for anything you forgot. La Cité-Limoilou is the closest city, 101 km away. It sits well inside the county, so one set of rules covers it.

• Where to Fish on Lac Pygmalion

  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. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Records held for Mauricie cover northern pike, brook trout, walleye and yellow perch. County records show what lives in the area; the local agency holds the water-by-water list. Fish Lac Pygmalion to its features, not to its size.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The seasonal spread runs -16°C to 17°C. The middle months are generous; the ends are demanding. Winter locks it down, and early May brings it back. The lid tends to go about early May and return around mid November. Just after the ice goes and just before it returns, the fishing lifts. Lac Pygmalion fishes to that pattern most years.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. Formal access is not mapped, so the last stretch is likely on foot. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Rules differ from one water to the next round here. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. Lac Mantry at 1.6 km is the sensible second choice. Signs at Lac Pygmalion carry more weight than any list.