Albert Lea Lake fishing: Northern Pike, Walleye, Black Bullhead

Target species: Northern Pike, Walleye, Black Bullhead, Bigmouth Buffalo, Channel Catfish, White Sucker, Black Crappie
Boat: 3 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Albert Lea Lake, Frank Hall Park Public Water Access Site, 2 lanes.

The lake

Albert Lea Lake covers 2,497 acres in Minnesota, across Freeborn County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is at least 4 feet (1.2 m). Our records hold 15 species for this water.

7 target fish, led by Northern Pike

  • Northern Pike — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
  • Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
  • Black Bullhead — Feeding water: 70–80°F.
  • Bigmouth Buffalo — Feeding water: 70–80°F.
  • Channel Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
  • White Sucker — Feeding water: 50–70°F.
  • Black Crappie — Feeding water: 65–75°F.

Also recorded here: White Crappie, Bluegill, Yellow Perch, Green Sunfish, Orangespotted Sunfish, Yellow Bullhead, Common Carp, Goldfish.

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 4 ft (1.2 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. We hold 11 depth contour lines for this water.

  • 0–1 ft: 39.9% of the water
  • 1–2 ft: 16% of the water
  • 2–3 ft: 19.2% of the water
  • 3–4 ft: 25% of the water

3 ramps and launches on this water

On this water we hold 3 trailer ramps.

  • Albert Lea Lake, Frank Hall Park Public Water Access Site — 2 lanes.
  • Albert Lea Lake, Myre Big Island SPK Public Water Access Site — 1 lane, restrooms. DNR Division of Parks and Trails.
  • Albert Lea Lake, St. Nicholas Landing Public Water Access Site — 1 lane. DNR Division of Parks and Trails.

Fee and opening hours are blank for all 3 places in this list: a blank means we hold no such field, not that it is free or always open, and this list may not be complete.

Water and conditions

Our water temperature readings average 71°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 8.7. These readings span 2019. The latest reading is from 2019, more than three years ago: read these numbers as history, not as the water today.

What is hard here

Only 3 public ramps are on file, so the launch decides where you fish.

Where this data comes from

  • Minnesota DNR — Minnesota DNR: depth contours: class A, a survey of the bottom.
  • Minnesota DNR — Minnesota DNR: reported depths: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map.
  • Webster, K.E., McCullough, I.M., Soranno, P.A. LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0, EDI, doi:10.6073/pasta/64ddc4d04661d9aef4bd702dc5d8984f (CC BY 4.0); Cheruvelil et al. LAGOS-US LOCUS v1.0 (EDI) — LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0: Lake depth for 17,675 lakes in the conterminous U.S.: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map.