Fishing Schultz Lake in Leduc County, Alberta

• Overview

  This water sits in Leduc County, Alberta. The bank is 734 metres above sea level. It runs to roughly 14 hectares — big enough to hold fish away from the bank, small enough to learn. Most waters listed here for Leduc County are larger. Head to Beaumont, 11 km away, for anything you forgot. Leduc is 14 km away, with Walker at 18 km. Rules can differ a short way off, since the county line is near.

• Where to Fish on Schultz Lake

  Our records carry no depth, so judge it from the bank. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Open biodiversity records for Leduc County list white sucker, longnose sucker, mooneye and northern pike. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. At Schultz Lake the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The range across the year is -14°C to 16°C. Winter puts a hard lid on this one. Ice-out usually falls in mid April, and the weeks after it fish hardest. On average, mid April opens the water and mid November closes it again. Fishing peaks soon after break-up and again before the cold returns. Schultz Lake fishes to that pattern most years.

• Tackle & Baits

  The paperwork position is blank for this one. It is recorded as intermittent, which means the basin empties in dry spells. Access is unmapped, which usually means a farm track and a walk. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Parking is often the real limit rather than the bank itself. Signs go up and come down, so check on the day. Ord Lake sits 4.5 km off and takes the overflow. Check the current arrangement for Schultz Lake.