Crawling Valley Reservoir Bathymetric Chart | Alberta Fishing Depth Map

Target trophy walleye and northern pike on one of southern Alberta’s premier fisheries with the official Crawling Valley Reservoir Bathymetric Chart. Located near Bassano in the County of Newell (Townships 22-23, Ranges 17-18 W4), Crawling Valley Reservoir is renowned for its expansive shoreline, productive bays, and trophy sportfishing. This high-precision color depth map translates complex underwater bathymetry into clear spatial data, giving anglers, boaters, and fisheries researchers a distinct advantage on the water.

Much like a terrestrial topographic map reveals land features, this bathymetric chart illustrates underwater depth gradients, submerged humps, steep channel drop-offs, and deep basin depressions. Rendered at a 1:15,000 scale with 1.0-meter contour intervals, it details the reservoir's impressive 134.5-kilometer shoreline and maximum depth of 16.8 meters, helping you locate high-probability holding areas across all seasons.

• 1.0m Depth Contours: Features high-contrast color gradient rendering and 1.0-meter contour intervals, clearly highlighting shallow weed flats, shelf drop-offs, and deep channel trenches down to 16.8 meters.

• Complete Lake Morphometry Data: Includes full technical metrics detailing surface area (2,315 hectares), volume (131,341 cubic decametres), shoreline length (134.5 km), maximum length (15.5 km), mean depth (5.67 m), and impoundment history.

• Access & Boat Launch Facilities: Prominently marks public boat launch access points, campground areas, and shoreline boundaries derived from orthophoto imagery.

• Fisheries & Angling Optimization: Essential physical tool for trolling long drop-offs, casting weedlines, vertical jigging, and locating winter ice-fishing structure.

• Geospatial Precision & Hydrological Data: Features complete DLS grid references (Twp 22-23, Rge 17-18 W4), a full Colour/Depth Scale table, a 2 km scale bar, and an Area/Capacity Curve graph.

Whether trolling open water in summer or drilling holes across mid-lake structure during ice season, this bathymetric depth map is an indispensable reference for exploring Crawling Valley Reservoir.