This lake has become a prefectural park and is well-known for its beautiful evening scenery. Its extraordinary beauty hardly remind people to be inflicted with the flood on the neighbor villages during Sogo's day.
Lake Imba's history of land reclamation by drainage
This lake was formed when the mouth of a valley below the Hokuso plains became blocked with debris from the Tone river. The lake has been transformed by land reclamation during the Edo period and after World War II. Standing now at the site where the old Jinbei quay used to be, one can no longer see the surface of the lake, only a plain of paddy fields. The lake's embankment is now 300 meters from where it used to be in Sogo's day.
The fishing season (Nokkomi) for black bass is
from March until May
Because the Black bass and Blue gill, nicknamed 'The gang of Lake Imba' have been increasing in number, fishing boats are filled with lure anglers. The fishing season for Black bass (Nokkomi) is from March untill May. Black bass are popular with anglers because they fight well on the line.
