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Best yellow perch lakes in Saskatchewan

222 Saskatchewan waters hold yellow perch. 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 premier eating panfish. Roams soft-bottom flats and weed edges in schools — a daytime biter.

1. Last Mountain Lake — 101 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Common Carp
2. Diefenbaker Lake — 194 ft max · Walleye, Sauger, Northern Pike, Rainbow Trout
3. Tobin Lake — 87 ft max · Walleye, Sauger, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch
4. Montreal Lake — 34 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Whitefish
5. Bigstone Lake — 30 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Whitefish
6. Sandy Lake — 164 ft max · Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Lake Whitefish
7. Delaronde Lake — 163 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Whitefish
8. Lower Foster Lake — 130 ft max · Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Lake Whitefish
9. Lac La Loche — 52 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Whitefish
10. Candle Lake — 55 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Whitefish
11. Waskesiu Lake — 69 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout
12. Limestone Lake — 23 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Whitefish
13. Lac La Plonge — 243 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout
14. Barrier Lake — 39 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Common Carp
15. Namew Lake — 141 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout
16. Canoe Lake — 49 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Whitefish
17. Turtle Lake — 47 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Whitefish
18. Middle Foster Lake — 68 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout
19. Attitti Lake — 157 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout
20. Weyakwin Lake — 38 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Whitefish
21. Keeley Lake — 56 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Whitefish
22. David Lake — 77 ft max · Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Burbot
23. Chitek Lake — 78 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Whitefish
24. Buffalo Pound Lake — 17 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Common Carp
25. Reid Lake — 52 ft max · Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Burbot

…plus 197 more Saskatchewan waters holding yellow perch.

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When to fish yellow perch in Saskatchewan

• Spring 3–12 ft — Spawning runs to shallow weeds and gravel — find the school, stay on it.
• Summer 10–30 ft — Schools slide deeper to soft-bottom flats and deep weedlines.
• Fall 12–35 ft — Jumbo perch pod up on deep basin flats feeding on invertebrates.
• Winter 15–35 ft — A premier ice-fishing target — deep mud flats, small jigs.

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