Solitude Lake in Turnor Lake: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Solitude Lake sits in Turnor Lake, out in Saskatchewan. The water sits 469 metres up. It measures some 3.52 sq km, and wind has room to build across it. With 7.6 km or so of shoreline, boat anglers cover ground the bank cannot. It is a small entry by Turnor Lake standards. Nearest place of any size is Buffalo Narrows, 153 km away. The nearest city of size is Saskatoon, 548 km away. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Solitude Lake

  There is no recorded depth, so work from what you can see. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. Open biodiversity records for Turnor Lake list walleye and spottail shiner. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Solitude Lake repays a walk before the first cast.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The range across the year is -22°C to 16°C. Cold dominates the year and the fishing works around it. Look for the thaw near early May; the fishing lifts straight after. Open water usually runs from early May until about early November. September and October fish steadily right up to the freeze. Solitude Lake runs to its own calendar within the local pattern.

• Tackle & Baits

  The access position is unclear from public sources. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. No launch point is recorded nearby, so this is a bank water unless you carry a boat in. For walleye, a jig and minnow near the bottom is the standard; evenings beat middays. Parking space is the usual limit rather than the bank itself. Signs go up and come down, so check on the day. Failing this one, try Gwillim Lake, 11 km away. Ask locally about Solitude Lake if anything is unclear.