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Best burbot lakes in Saskatchewan

110 Saskatchewan waters hold burbot. Ranked below by size and depth-data quality — open any water to see exactly where to fish it: depth contours, scored spots with plain-English reasons, seasonal windows and bait picks. The freshwater cod that feeds at night under the ice — ugly, delicious and wildly underrated.

1. Green Lake — 142 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Lake Whitefish, Burbot
2. Last Mountain Lake — 101 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Common Carp
3. Diefenbaker Lake — 194 ft max · Walleye, Sauger, Northern Pike, Rainbow Trout
4. Tobin Lake — 87 ft max · Walleye, Sauger, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch
5. Montreal Lake — 34 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Whitefish
6. Bigstone Lake — 30 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Whitefish
7. Sandy Lake — 164 ft max · Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Lake Whitefish
8. Delaronde Lake — 163 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Whitefish
9. Lower Foster Lake — 130 ft max · Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Lake Whitefish
10. Lac La Loche — 52 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Whitefish
11. Candle Lake — 55 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Whitefish
12. Waskesiu Lake — 69 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout
13. Limestone Lake — 23 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Whitefish
14. Lac La Plonge — 243 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout
15. Riou Lake — 115 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Lake Trout, Lake Whitefish
16. Namew Lake — 141 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout
17. Canoe Lake — 49 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Whitefish
18. Turtle Lake — 47 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Whitefish
19. Middle Foster Lake — 68 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout
20. Fontaine Lake — 236 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Lake Trout, Lake Whitefish
21. Attitti Lake — 157 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout
22. Beaverlodge Lake — 215 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Lake Trout, Lake Whitefish
23. Weyakwin Lake — 38 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Whitefish
24. Keeley Lake — 56 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Whitefish
25. David Lake — 77 ft max · Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Burbot

…plus 85 more Saskatchewan waters holding burbot.

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When to fish burbot in Saskatchewan

• Spring 25–70 ft — Post-spawn burbot slide back toward deep basins but still run shallow rock after dark.
• Summer 50–120 ft — Deep and sluggish in warm months — mostly a bycatch while jigging deep structure for lake trout.
• Fall 30–80 ft — Feeding picks up hard as the water cools — dead bait or glow spoons on deep rock at night.
• Winter 15–60 ft — Late-winter spawners stack on rock humps and shoals — glow jigs pounded on bottom after dark.

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