Its outflow, to the north west, is Linbeck Gill, which joins the River Esk before flowing into the Irish Sea at Ravenglass.

The fishing rights to the lake are owned by Millom Anglers and it is stocked with brown trout.

One of the chapters of Alfred Wainwright's The Outlying Fells of Lakeland is a circular walk anticlockwise around Devoke Water, starting and finishing on the road to the east.

Yoadcastle is classed as a Fellranger, being described by Richards in the Coniston volume of his book series.

[9] It is among the 21 such summits (originally 18 before the extension of the Lake District) which are not included in Wainwright's main list of 214.