Lake Diefenbaker is central Saskatchewan's big-water trophy-trout story — a vast prairie reservoir that grows enormous rainbow trout (it has produced record-class fish from net-pen escapes), with pike and walleye alongside. Fly anglers work the shorelines, inflows and wind-lanes for big rainbows on leeches and baitfish, and the bays for pike. The marquee central stillwater, filling the gap between the foothills and the north.
Lake Diefenbaker is the big central-Saskatchewan reservoir on the South Saskatchewan and Qu'Appelle rivers — a vast prairie impoundment famous for trophy rainbow trout (the result of net-pen aquaculture escapes, including record-class fish), plus northern pike and walleye. It's the province's marquee central stillwater: open prairie water where fly anglers chase big rainbows along the shorelines and inflows and pike in the bays.
Wading: Large open reservoir, wind and waves, mud margins — largely a boat fishery
- Reservoir
- Sedimentary
- Stillwater
- Shoal