Fishing near Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

Yellowknife sits on the north shore of Great Slave Lake, one of the deepest lakes in the world and the centrepiece of fishing in the region. Trophy lake trout and northern pike draw anglers from across Canada and beyond, while dozens of accessible smaller lakes — Prosperous, Prelude, Kam, and Long Lake among them — round out a fishing scene that runs from open water through six months of hard-water ice fishing.