Lac Tawonna, Quebec: Fishing Spots and Seasons

• Overview

  Lac Tawonna is one of the Mauricie listings for Quebec. Around the bank it is taiga. Surface area is around 22 hectares, which gives you real water without needing a boat. Roughly 2.5 km of bank means you can walk to a fresh area when one goes quiet. Start from Weymontachie, 35 km down the road. Further out sit La Tuque (75 km) and Leblanc (81 km). It sits well inside its county, with no border complications.

• Where to Fish on Lac Tawonna

  No published figure covers depth, so learn it as you fish. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. The shallow end warms first and pulls fish in ahead of the rest. Open biodiversity records for Mauricie list northern pike, brook trout, walleye and yellow perch. Records at this level tell you what is in the area. The near bank of Lac Tawonna is often the one people ignore.

• Seasonal Patterns

  On the long-term average, July reads 17°C and January reads -17°C. Long winters and short summers set the pattern. The lid usually goes in early May, which opens the strongest weeks of the year. Averages suggest open water from about early May through to roughly mid November. The open run goes from the thaw to the freeze, and April through October covers most of it. Anyone fishing Lac Tawonna regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  The rules here are undocumented as far as public sources go. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. There is no mapped parking or launch nearby, which keeps numbers down. Largemouth respond to soft plastics tight to cover; go weedless where the growth is heavy. Where the road in crosses private land, ask first. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. Lac Joppa sits 1 km off and takes the overflow. For Lac Tawonna, the notice at the access point is the final word.