Fishing near Watson Lake, Yukon

Watson Lake sits in the southern Yukon, where the Alaska Highway cuts through boreal wilderness drained by the Liard River system. The town's namesake lake and the surrounding rivers and backcountry lakes draw anglers after lake trout, northern pike, and Arctic grayling. Lucky Lake, stocked and right on the Alaska Highway south of town, gives easy roadside access, while fly-in lodges use Watson Lake as a charter hub for remote wilderness fishing deeper in the territory.