Pement Lake, British Columbia: Fishing Spots and Seasons

• Overview

  Pement Lake belongs to Thompson-Nicola Regional District, British Columbia. What surrounds it is pine and birch. It runs to roughly 11 hectares — big enough to hold fish away from the bank, small enough to learn. The whole outline is near 1.6 km, and most of it is walkable. The town to know is Chase, 13 km out. Sorrento follows at 16 km, then Blind Bay at 20 km. It sits well inside its county, with no border complications.

• Where to Fish on Pement Lake

  Depth figures are not published for this one. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Records held for Thompson-Nicola Regional District cover Chinook salmon, sockeye salmon, Coho salmon, rainbow trout and pink salmon. Several of these carry legal protection or closed seasons; the rulebook comes before the rod. Take Pement Lake a stretch at a time.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Climate normals give 14°C for August and -8°C for January. Hard water is a season in its own right here. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about mid April. On the long-run averages the water opens up around mid April and starts locking again about mid November. The weeks after the thaw and the ones before the freeze are the strongest. The season on Pement Lake rarely departs from it.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. A campsite is mapped about 110 m away, which makes an early start easier. For the trout, small spinners and a box of nymphs cover both approaches. Where a permit is needed, the nearest town usually sells it. Check whether bait restrictions apply before you buy any. Bryden Lake, 0.6 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Signs at Pement Lake carry more weight than any list.