Camp Lake Fishing in County of St. Paul No. 19, Alberta

• Overview

  Camp Lake stands in County of St. Paul No. 19, Alberta. The surface lies 630 metres up. It runs to roughly 44 hectares — big enough to hold fish away from the bank, small enough to learn. The edge runs 2.8 km or so, easy to work in an afternoon. The town to know is St. Paul, 13 km out. Edmonton sits 139 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Camp Lake

  No chart reached our records; the first cast is your sounding. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Across County of St. Paul No. 19, recorded fish include yellow perch, Iowa darter, northern pike and white sucker. Take it as the county picture rather than a promise for this water. Camp Lake fishes better once you know its edges.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The year swings from about -16°C in January to roughly 16°C in July. The ice season is long here and the open one short. Winter fishing happens on the ice here, with open water back around late April. Ice clears near late April and comes back about mid November in a typical year. The strongest runs come at either end of the open season. Plan around that when you fish Camp Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access status is simply unknown for this water. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. A wire trace and a big bright lure handle the pike; deep water asks for a heavier spoon. Parking space is the usual limit rather than the bank itself. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. If the gate is shut, Lac Cyr at 6.5 km is the nearest alternative. What applies at Camp Lake may have changed since it was mapped.