Liberty Lake

Liberty Lake is stocked in two rounds. Spring brought 4,001 catchable trout in 2025 and autumn brought 16,806, 81% of the year’s 20,807.

WDFW data through Oct 30, 2026. Page updated November 5, 2026.

Liberty Lake in numbers

catchable trout in 2025: 20,807
so far in 2026, through Oct 30: 4,350
2025 against the 2015–2025 average of 11,955 a year: +74%

2026 is running behind 2025: 4,350 fish through Oct 30, against 19,007 by the same date a year earlier. The latest batch, 4,350 rainbow trout, went in on Feb 25, 2026, 253 days before this page was built.

WDFW lists Liberty Lake as 706.1 acres in Spokane County, at 2,053 ft. The 2025 releases work out to about 29 catchable trout per acre here; 31 of the 37 waters on this site with a WDFW acreage were stocked more densely. It is the largest of the 3 Spokane County waters on this site.

Release log

Every release since January 2025

5 species-date records, newest first. Fish per lb is the figure WDFW reports for each batch.

Latest batch, Feb 25, 20264,350rainbow trout, 10 oz each

Winter 2026

Feb 25Rainbow trout4,3501.6 per lb · avg 10 oz

Autumn 2025

Nov 19Eastern brook trout1,2001.3 per lb · avg 12 oz

Nov 19Brown trout6000.6 per lb · avg 1.7 lb

Oct 16Rainbow trout15,00610 per lb · avg 2 oz

Spring 2025

Mar 5Rainbow trout4,0012.5 per lb · avg 6 oz

2015 – 2026

Fish released each year

2025 is yellow. 2026 is outlined because the year is not over: the data runs to Oct 30, 2026. The busiest full year was 2015, with 4 release dates and 21,350 fish; the 2015–2025 average is 3.0 release dates a year.

21k2015: 21,350 catchable fish on 4 release dates
2016: 1,511 catchable fish on 2 release dates
2017: 5,950 catchable fish on 3 release dates
2018: 11,220 catchable fish on 3 release dates
2019: 6,710 catchable fish on 2 release dates
2020: 5,110 catchable fish on 3 release dates
2021: 20,568 catchable fish on 4 release dates
2022: 5,152 catchable fish on 3 release dates
2023: 20,178 catchable fish on 3 release dates
2024: 12,949 catchable fish on 3 release dates
21k2025: 20,807 catchable fish on 3 release dates
4k2026 (to Oct 30): 4,350 catchable fish on 1 release date

How big are these fish?

Under 4 oz: 15,006 fish, 60%
4 to 8 oz: 4,001 fish, 16%
8 to 16 oz: 5,550 fish, 22%
1 to 2 lb: 600 fish, 2%

Weight is 1 ÷ fish per lb, as WDFW reports it for each batch. It is a batch average, not a guarantee for any one fish. Counts cover every release since January 2025.

Notes from the records

The biggest single batch since January 2025 was 15,006 rainbow trout on Oct 16, 2025. The heaviest fish were 600 brown trout on Nov 19, 2025, at 0.6 per lb, about 1.7 lb each.

Species in these records: rainbow trout, brown trout, eastern brook trout.

Timing shifts from year to year. Treat this as a pattern, not a promise.