Davison Lake, Saskatchewan: Fishing Spots and Seasons

• Overview

  Stony Rapids, Saskatchewan, is where Davison Lake sits. Height above sea level is 409 metres. This is sizeable water at about 2.04 sq km, and a boat opens up most of it. Some 16 km of bank gives room to move when the wind turns. Fort Smith sits 348 km from the bank. It is 810 km to Edmonton, the nearest city. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Davison Lake

  Depth went unrecorded, which puts the reading back on you. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Open biodiversity records for Stony Rapids list cisco, northern pike, round whitefish and lake chub. These are county-wide records, so not all of them will be in this water. Davison Lake responds to conditions more than to tactics.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July is the warm end of the year here, averaging about 15°C, while January sits near -27°C. The season is measured in weeks rather than months. Hard cover is dependable here; it goes around late May. The lid tends to go about late May and return around late October. The middle of summer slows a little, with dawn and dusk carrying it. That is the shape of the year on Davison Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. 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. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Check whether a boat is allowed before you tow one. Rules for boats are stricter than rules for the bank in many places. Roulston Lake, 2.1 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Check the position on Davison Lake before loading the car.