Best splake lakes in Saskatchewan
15 Saskatchewan waters hold splake. 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. Stocked brook × lake trout hybrid — the Shield-lake specialty that splits the difference: shallower than lakers, deeper than brookies, and a superb ice bite.
- Piprell Lake — 63 ft max · Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout, SplakeWhy #1: mapped size signal; contours are approximated · no verified access record attached
- Fern Lake — 61 ft max · Rainbow Trout, SplakeWhy #2: mapped size signal; contours are approximated · no verified access record attached
- Constance Lake — 69 ft max · SplakeWhy #3: mapped size signal; contours are approximated · no verified access record attached
- Deer Lake — 33 ft max · Rainbow Trout, SplakeWhy #4: mapped size signal; contours are approximated · no verified access record attached
- Fontaine Lake — 25 ft max · Rainbow Trout, SplakeWhy #5: mapped size signal; contours are approximated · no verified access record attached
- Mullock Lake — 57 ft max · Brown Trout, SplakeWhy #6: mapped size signal; contours are approximated · no verified access record attached
- May Lake — 39 ft max · Brook Trout, SplakeWhy #7: mapped size signal; contours are approximated · no verified access record attached
- Burtlein Lake — 36 ft max · Brown Trout, SplakeWhy #8: mapped size signal; contours are approximated · no verified access record attached
- Round Lake — 30 ft max · Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, SplakeWhy #9: mapped size signal; contours are approximated · no verified access record attached
- Beatty Lake — 34 ft max · SplakeWhy #10: mapped size signal; contours are approximated · no verified access record attached
- Jade Lake — 78 ft max · Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout, SplakeWhy #11: mapped size signal; contours are approximated · no verified access record attached
- Ranger Lake — 39 ft max · SplakeWhy #12: mapped size signal; contours are approximated · no verified access record attached
- Pine Lake — 29 ft max · Rainbow Trout, SplakeWhy #13: mapped size signal; contours are approximated · no verified access record attached
- Sapphire Lake — 48 ft max · SplakeWhy #14: mapped size signal; contours are approximated · no verified access record attached
- Little Raspberry Lake — 58 ft max · Brown Trout, SplakeWhy #15: mapped size signal; contours are approximated · no verified access record attached
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How to use this ranking
The order is a map-planning ranking, not a claim about today's fish population. It favors larger mapped waters and gives survey-backed contours a three-times data-quality boost. Agency population surveys, current regulations, access and recent conditions should make the final decision.
When to fish splake in Saskatchewan
- Spring 5–25 ft — Ice-out through spring, splake patrol shoreline rock, points and inflows like oversized brookies.
- Summer 25–60 ft — Warm water pushes splake below the thermocline — deep breaks and humps, shallower than lakers in the same lake.
- Fall 10–35 ft — Mostly sterile but still hormone-driven — fall splake stage on rock shoals and points and eat aggressively.
- Winter 10–45 ft — Why they're stocked: an active, roaming winter predator — work basin edges and mid-depth humps, and hole-hop.
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