Fishing Lac Rey in Mauricie, Quebec

• Overview

  Within Mauricie, Quebec, you have Lac Rey. The surface lies 340 metres up. The water measures roughly 3 hectares, so nothing here is far from anything else. It is one of the smaller waters we list in Mauricie. Start from Shawinigan, 27 km down the road. The big place round here is Trois-Rivières, 56 km distant. Also on the doorstep: Lac Ecarte at 1.7 km, 1.7 km out stands Lac Etienne, Lac en Coeur at 2 km, 2.5 km out stands Lac Arsene and Lac Arthur at 3.1 km. No border sits close enough to matter.

• Where to Fish on Lac Rey

  No depth figure has reached our records, which makes a plummet useful. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. Survey and observation records for Mauricie include northern pike, brook trout, walleye, yellow perch and white sucker. It is the county picture; the agency list is water-specific. Anyone new to Lac Rey should walk it once before setting up.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July runs about 18°C on average, January about -14°C. A solid cap is the normal state through winter. Hard water holds through the cold months, breaking up near late April. Climate figures give an open season running late April to late November. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. The season on Lac Rey follows the weather closely.

• Tackle & Baits

  The paperwork position is blank for this one. We find no slipway, car park or made path within a short radius, so treat access as rough. 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. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. For a change of water, Lac Ecarte is 1.7 km distant. Treat access at Lac Rey as something to verify.