liberty lake?

[talus]

I was thinking of fishing liberty lake tomorrow but I have a question. The regs show it as not opening until the general opener this saturday but I have heard numerous reports from people fishing it. Am I missing something?

[gpc]

I know they have made a couple of opening date changes on some of the lakes out there. I double checked the regs for you as well and it is closed until saturady. Go to the wdfw website and check out the emergency rule changes. If they did change the opening date it will be listed there. But beware, taking peoples "word" for it ussually never pans out. I know my friends mean well, but they could have left me high and dry with fines. Good luck where ever you end up fishing

[Aaron]

From the WDFW site:

"Three mixed-species lakes that usually open on the last Saturday of April were changed to the March 1 opening season this year, although anglers will find them listed in the current pamphlet as opening April 26. Those lakes are Liberty, Downs and Medical lakes. Donley said that because of the record-long winter, the earlier opener didn't solicit angling crowds and none of them are anywhere near "fished out." Liberty Lake, east of Spokane near the Idaho border, continues to provide good catches of brown and rainbow trout, and as the weather warms it will produce more largemouth and smallmouth bass, yellow perch, and crappie. Downs Lake in the southwest corner of Spokane County has also been providing opportunity for yellow perch, largemouth bass, crappie, and rainbow trout. And Medical Lake, near the town of the same name in southwest Spokane County, is good for large brown, rainbow, and tiger trout under selective gear rules."

http://wdfw.wa.gov/do/weekendr/weekendr.htm

[talus]

Thanks guys. I knew I had to be missing something. I haven't fished out there for a few years and have been wanting to give it a shot. I will let you all know how it goes.