Stars out and no cloud tonight, with a kind SW breeze on the water and pressure going nowhere. Start the search at Lac Bimbelot along the shaded margin through bright spells. A stay-home graph, with the night as the one excuse to go. Save the long walk for a better forecast. Autumn rewards covering water while the fish roam.
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You will find Lac Bimbelot in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec. It sits in pine and birch. At roughly 3 hectares, the whole thing is within casting reach of a single walk. It is a small entry by Abitibi-Témiscamingue standards. Nearest place of any size is Val-d'Or, 92 km away. Malartic is 108 km away, with Senneterre at 118 km. No boundary runs near, so the local rules hold throughout.
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. Public occurrence data for Abitibi-Témiscamingue names northern pike, yellow perch, walleye, white sucker and brown bullhead. The county list is broader than any single water. The near bank of Lac Bimbelot is often the one people ignore.
The range across the year is -16°C to 17°C. Cold winters and warm summers give a wide working range. Count on hard cover from midwinter, and open water from early May. Average temperatures cross freezing around early May in spring and again near late November in autumn. The first weeks of open water and the last are the ones to plan for. Expect Lac Bimbelot to follow that timing.
Public data does not answer the access question here. Nothing built is recorded close to the bank here. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Season dates differ by species, so read the table. Signs go up and come down, so check on the day. For a change of water, Lac Martagon is 1.3 km distant. Treat Lac Bimbelot as unsettled until someone local tells you otherwise.
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| 14.2 | 17.2 | 18.7 | 20 | 17.6 | 17.6 | 17.3 | 17.6 | 17.7 | 16.1 | 15.9 | 16.2 | 16.1 | 15.9 | 15.2 | 15.4 | 17.3 | 8.8 | 6 | 7.5 | 6.6 | 1.3 | 4.3 | 5.1 |
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| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 101 | 101 | 101 | 101 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| 78 | 82 | 84 | 87 | 88 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 92 | 92 | 92 | 90 | 84 | 78 | 74 | 70 | 82 | 81 | 83 | 84 | 83 | 81 | 83 | 87 |
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