Lac du Pimbina near Manawan: Fishing Spots, Seasons and Access

• Overview

  Lac du Pimbina is one of the Lanaudière waters in Quebec. What surrounds it is northern bush. It is pond-in-a-field scale, with the far bank a short lob away. It is one of the smaller waters we list in Lanaudière. Manawan sits 34 km from the bank. The nearest city of size is Trois-Rivières, 145 km away. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.

• Where to Fish on Lac du Pimbina

  There is no published depth for this one, so start shallow and work out. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Records held for Lanaudière cover pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass, yellow perch, rock bass and brook trout. The county figures include rivers and lakes alike. Fish Lac du Pimbina to its features, not to its size.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages here run 17°C at the top of summer and -16°C at the bottom of winter. A short, intense season is the rule this far north. The freeze runs deep into the year, with break-up near early May. The season between ice runs from about early May to mid November. The middle of summer slows a little, with dawn and dusk carrying it. The season on Lac du Pimbina rarely departs from it.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. Access points are not mapped for this water, which suits people who like quiet. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Check locally before you travel, because a wasted drive is a long one. Access can change hands, so last year's answer may not hold. Lac Cache, 0.8 km away, makes the obvious fallback. None of that is settled for Lac du Pimbina in what we hold.