Algae Lake Fishing Guide, Faro, Yukon

• Overview

  Look for Algae Lake in Faro, Yukon. The bank is 1,695 metres above sea level. The water covers some 52 hectares, so pick a bank rather than trying to cover it all. With 5.6 km or so of shoreline, boat anglers cover ground the bank cannot. On size it sits at the modest end of our Faro list. Norman Wells is the closest place, 257 km off. Anchorage sits 1014 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. Rules here are straightforward: one set of provincial rules.

• Where to Fish on Algae Lake

  Depth is not on record here, so the bank has to tell you. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Open biodiversity records for Faro list Chinook salmon and Arctic grayling. Some of the species recorded here are protected or tightly regulated, so check what may be targeted before you fish. At Algae Lake light and wind decide more than tackle does.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warm month here averages 9°C; the cold one sits at -24°C. Winter runs most of the calendar, and everything worth doing happens in the gap. Winter fishing happens on the ice here, with open water back around early June. The lid tends to go about early June and return around late September. May into June fishes hardest, and September gives a second good stretch before the lid returns. The season on Algae Lake rarely departs from it.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing in our records says who may fish here. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. We find no slipway, car park or made path within a short radius, so treat access as rough. Trout here take small spinners, spoons and, where fly water allows, a nymph or dry. Check whether a boat is allowed before you tow one. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. Arrowhead Lake, 16 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Nothing on Algae Lake should be assumed from this page alone.