A closed sky with even light today, with a light chop building from the S and the barometer holding steady. Give the shallows early and the drop later the first hour at Lac Vic. The night carries the best of the day. Make the first hour count and build on it. Falling temperatures are switching fish back on.
The bites are poor now
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Set in Mauricie, Quebec, this is Lac Vic. Country round the bank runs to spruce and muskeg. At roughly 2 hectares, the whole thing is within casting reach of a single walk. It is a small entry by Mauricie standards. Start from Weymontachie, 19 km down the road. Leblanc is 63 km away, with La Tuque at 89 km. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.
No depth figure appears in our records, so the bank has to tell you. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Reported across Mauricie: northern pike, brook trout and walleye. Take it as the county picture rather than a promise for this water. Lac Vic responds to conditions more than to tactics.
July is the warm end of the year here, averaging about 16°C, while January sits near -17°C. Ice holds for a long stretch, so the open weeks matter more here than further south. Ice is part of the season here, ending near early May. On average, early May opens the water and mid November closes it again. Fish feed hardest at the start and the close of the open season. It holds true on Lac Vic more years than not.
Access status is simply unknown for this water. Access is unmapped, which usually means a farm track and a walk. Largemouth respond to soft plastics tight to cover; go weedless where the growth is heavy. Rules differ from one water to the next round here. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. For a change of water, Lac Samson is 0.9 km distant. None of that is settled for Lac Vic in what we hold.
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The bites are poor now
| 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| 4.8 | 7 | 7.8 | 6.7 | 7.9 | 12 | 13.3 | 14.3 | 13.4 | 14.2 | 13.5 | 14.3 | 14.3 | 13.4 | 12.7 | 14.4 | 13.8 | 12.3 | 11.6 | 9.8 | 7.6 | 8.3 | 6.1 | 7.5 |
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| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
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| 79 | 80 | 82 | 84 | 89 | 91 | 92 | 92 | 93 | 92 | 92 | 91 | 90 | 90 | 91 | 91 | 91 | 91 | 91 | 92 | 92 | 92 | 93 | 94 |
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