Liberty Lake fishing: Walleye, Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout

Target species: Walleye, Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout, Brown Trout, Bluegill, Channel Catfish, Largemouth Bass
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Liberty Lake, 1 lane.

The lake

Liberty Lake covers 701 acres in Washington, across Spokane County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is at least 30 feet (9.1 m). Our records hold 13 species for this water.

7 target fish, led by Walleye

  • Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
  • Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Brook Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Brown Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Bluegill — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
  • Channel Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
  • Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.

Also recorded here: Smallmouth Bass, Pumpkinseed, Black Crappie, Yellow Perch, Brown Bullhead, Yellow Bullhead.

Stocking: 6,839,080 fish, 1997–2026

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife records list 6,839,080 fish released into this water from 1997 to 2026.

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Locke Cole · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Walleye: 3,739,984 in 1996–2011
  • Brown Trout: 1,008,959 in 2006–2025
  • Channel Catfish: 13,594 in 2011–2026

5 more species on the stocking list.

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 30 ft (9.1 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. We hold 47 depth contour lines for this water.

  • 0–2 ft: 1.8% of the water
  • 2–4 ft: 2.4% of the water
  • 4–6 ft: 3% of the water
  • 6–8 ft: 3.1% of the water
  • 8–10 ft: 3% of the water
  • 10–12 ft: 3% of the water
  • 12–14 ft: 2.9% of the water
  • 14–16 ft: 3% of the water
  • 16–18 ft: 3.2% of the water
  • 18–20 ft: 3.9% of the water
  • 20–22 ft: 5.7% of the water
  • 22–24 ft: 4.5% of the water
  • 24–26 ft: 10.2% of the water
  • 26–28 ft: 8.5% of the water
  • 28–30 ft: 41.9% of the water

1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.

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Joe Mabel (on Flickr as Joe Mabel from Seattle, US) · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Liberty Lake — 1 lane, restrooms. WDFW. hours: March 1 - October 31

The place listed has no fee or opening hours on file: a blank means we hold no such field, not that it is free or always open, and this list may not be complete.

What is hard here

Only 1 public ramp is on file, so the launch decides where you fish.

Where this data comes from

  • Washington State Department of Ecology — Washington State Department of Ecology: depth contours: class A, a survey of the bottom.