Lac Sublime in Mauricie: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Mauricie, Quebec, is where Lac Sublime sits. The land about it is spruce and muskeg. It covers about 4 hectares, so this is small water you can walk round in under an hour. Most waters listed here for Mauricie are larger. Nearest town is Métabetchouan, 54 km off. Chambord lies 58 km off, Desbiens another 61 km. This one is safely inside the county line.

• Where to Fish on Lac Sublime

  Without a survey to go on, judge depth from how the bank falls away. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Open biodiversity records for Mauricie list northern pike, brook trout, walleye, yellow perch and white sucker. What holds for the county may not hold for this water. On Lac Sublime the quiet end is the one worth the extra effort.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Climate records put July near 17°C and January near -16°C. The fishing year opens late and shuts early. Hard water holds through the cold months, breaking up near early May. Averages place the thaw at early May and the freeze at mid November. The strongest runs come at either end of the open season. Anyone fishing Lac Sublime regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  The paperwork position is blank for this one. No built facilities appear in mapping around this water. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. A landowner's word beats anything printed elsewhere. Barbless rules turn up on managed water more often than not. Should this one be busy, Lac Perdrix is 0.5 km off. What applies at Lac Sublime may have changed since it was mapped.