Fishing Wollaston Lake in Stony Rapids, Saskatchewan

• Overview

  Wollaston Lake is listed under Stony Rapids, Saskatchewan. This is spruce and muskeg country. At 2269.59 sq km you are fishing a fraction of it whatever you do. Bays run back a long way, and the fish move between them with the season. By surface area it heads our Stony Rapids listings. For a base, Pelican Narrows sits 343 km out. Then La Ronge, 372 km, and Flin Flon, 396 km. It lies deep inside the county rather than near an edge.

• Where to Fish on Wollaston Lake

  The charted maximum sits at about 97 metres. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. Stony Rapids records list cisco, northern pike, round whitefish, lake chub and slimy sculpin among the fish reported. Read it as a county summary, not a water-by-water list. At Wollaston Lake the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Expect July to average close to 13°C, with January the cold end at about -25°C. The season is measured in weeks rather than months. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about late May. Climate figures give an open season running late May to early November. The open run goes from the thaw to the freeze, and April through October covers most of it. The season on Wollaston Lake rarely departs from it.

• Tackle & Baits

  No public source sets out the position on this bank. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. Nothing formal is recorded here: no ramp, no car park, no marked path. For the pike, wire up and throw larger lures along the weed edges. Rules for this water may differ from the county norm. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. Larsen Lake at 23 km is the sensible second choice. None of that is settled for Wollaston Lake in what we hold.