Lac Albert Fishing near Saint-Honoré, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac Albert is one of the Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean listings for Quebec. Country round the bank runs to boreal forest. It measures about 35 hectares, which is a comfortable size for bank fishing. About 4.1 km of bank, so nothing stays unexplored for long. Few waters listed in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean are bigger. Some 44 km away sits Saint-Fulgence, the nearest settlement. Saint-Honoré is 47 km and La Baie 54 km. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.

• Where to Fish on Lac Albert

  No depth figure appears in our records, so the bank has to tell you. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Open biodiversity records for Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean list northern pike, Atlantic salmon and lake whitefish. Some of the species recorded here are protected or tightly regulated, so check what may be targeted before you fish. On Lac Albert a short move beats a long cast.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July is the warm end of the year here, averaging about 15°C, while January sits near -19°C. This is a two-season water: locked, then wide open. The lid arrives early and lasts until roughly mid May. Break-up sits around mid May on average, with the water closing again about early November. June through September is the settled part of the year, with the shoulders busier for fish. The season on Lac Albert rarely departs from it.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing on record says whether the bank is open or closed. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. No built facilities appear in mapping around this water. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Sort the permit out before you load the car. Where tickets apply, they are sold in the nearest town rather than on the bank. The nearest alternative is Lac Vanasse, 0.7 km out. Nothing on Lac Albert should be assumed from this page alone.