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Fishing regulations at Lower Goose Lake, WA
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Fishing regulations in Washington can change throughout the year. Make sure to check this page before fishing for the most up to date rules and regulations for the current season. Local regulations govern when you can fish, the max size of the fish you can keep, how many fish you can keep, and more.
Regulations for top species
Smallmouth bass
The maximum number of individual fish legally harvested per harvester per day. Bag limits are only for properly licensed anglers actively harvesting the species. People who are not actively harvesting or are not properly licensed (if a license is required) may NOT be counted for the purpose of bag limits.
The maximum number of trophy individuals legally harvested per harvester per day. A trophy is any individual of a length greater than the max size limit. Trophy individuals are included in the daily bag limit unless stated otherwise.
Total length means the straight line distance from the most forward point of the head with the mouth closed, to the farthest tip of the tail with the tail compressed or squeezed, while the fish is lying on its side.
WA Non-game and Food Fish
You may not harvest in freshwater any fish not classified as a Food Fish or Game Fish except for Northern pike.
WA Snagging
You may not snag or attempt to snag fish. It is unlawful to possess a fish taken from freshwater that was not hooked inside the mouth or on the head. The head is defined as any portion forward of the rear margin of the gill plate.
WA Use of Drugs, Explosives or Poisons
You may not use drugs, explosives, or poison that may kill or injure fish and wildlife.
WA Crossbow
You may not use a crossbow to harvest fish or shellfish.
WA Sale or Barter
You may not offer any recreationally-caught fish or shellfish for sale or barter.
WA Possession and Fishing Rules
You may not fish for or harvest fish or shellfish in an area with catch in your possession that does not meet the rules of that area. However, you may pass through such an area without stopping to fish. Also, you may catch fish in one area and land them at a port in a different area even if that different area is closed or has different rules, with the exception of landing halibut in a closed area, or landing bottom fish caught in Oregon.
WA Harvesting another Person's Limit
You may not harvest any part of another person's daily limit, except for persons who possess a Designated Harvester Companion Card unless otherwise specified.
WA Bait
You may not chum (broadcast feed) to attract Game Fish unless authorized by Special Rules. You many not use salmon, herring, or halibut for anything other than human consumption or fishing bait. It is unlawful to possess or use live aquatic animals as bait, except: (1) Live aquatic animals (other than fish) collected from the water being fished; (2) Live sand shrimp; (3) Live forage fish in the Columbia River (downstream of Rocky Point/Tongue Point).
WA Transport of Live Fish
You may not transport live fish or relocate shellfish or shells into state waters without a permit.
WA Use of a Net
You may not use a net, except when using a dip net to land legally-hooked fish, a forage fish dip net to harvest forage fish.
WA Use of Chemicals
You may not use any type of chemical irritant to harvest fish, or shellfish unless a special exception has been made by the Director.
WA Bow and Arrow, Spear and Spearfishing
You may not fish for Game Fish, salmon, sturgeon, shad, octopus, crab, or other shellfish with bow and arrow, spear, or spearfishing gear unless authorized by Special Rules.
WA Gaff Hooks
You may not use a gaff hook, except to land lingcod (in Marine Areas 1-3 and 4 West of Bonilla-Tatoosh line), halibut, tuna, or dogfish shark that will be retained.
WA Season for Fishing Rivers Streams and Beaver Ponds
Rivers, streams and beaver ponds are open the Saturday before Memorial Day through October 31. Beaver ponds located within or connected to streams listed as open to trout and other game fish follow the same rules as the stream. Lakes, ponds, and reservoirs are open to fishing for game fish (except Dolly Varden/bull trout and grass carp) year-round.
WA Hook and Line Angling
Hook and line angling only. Barbed or barbless hooks may be used, and a hook may be single- point, double, or treble, but not more than one line with up to three hooks per angler may be used.
WA Cooperation with Data Collection
You must cooperate with data collection or other sampling of fish, shellfish or seaweed upon request of Department of Fish and Wildlife personnel. This includes relinquishing any part of a salmon, steelhead, or other species of fish containing coded-wire tags.
No min. size in lakes, ponds, and reservoirs. Only 1 smallmouth bass over 14" may be retained. Daily limit 10. No size restriction/daily limit in rivers, streams, and beaver ponds.
For more information please see State of Washington Fishing Regulations
DELANEY SPRING CREEK
- All game fish
- Sat. before Memorial Day-Oct. 31
- Statewide min. size/daily limit. Except: Eastern brook trout count as part of trout daily limit.
FRENCHMAN HILLS WASTEWAYS AND DRAINS
- All game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit. Except: Eastern brook trout count as part of trout daily limit.
GRANT AND ADAMS COUNTIES
all inlets and outlets of lakes, ponds, and reservoirs and all irrigation canals, wasteways, and drains in Grant and Adams counties except for Crab Creek, Rocky Ford Creek and Ponds, Columbia Basin Hatchery Creek, Bobcat Creek, Coyote Creek, Frenchman Hills Wasteway and Drains, Hays Creek, Red Rock Creek, Sand Hollow Creek, Lenore Lake inlet and outlet, and Nunnally Lake outlet.
- All game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide rules for lakes, ponds, and reservoirs apply for all species.
NUNNALLY LAKE OUTLET
Outlet stream of Nunnally Lake
- All species
- CLOSED WATERS.
RED ROCK CREEK
- All game fish
- Sat. before Memorial Day-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
ROCKY FORD CREEK AND PONDS
- All species
- No wading. Fly fishing only. Bank fishing only.
- All game fish
- Year-round
- Catch-and-release.
SAND HOLLOW CREEK
from SR 243 upstream and all tributaries
- All game fish
- Sat. before Memorial Day-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
BEDA LAKE
- All species
- Selective gear rules. Internal combustion motors prohibited.
- Trout
- Year-round
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
BLUE LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
BURKE LAKE
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
CALICHE LAKE, UPPER
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
CASCADE LAKE
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
CATTAIL LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
CLIFF LAKE
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
COOT LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
CRYSTAL LAKE
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
CUP LAKE
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
DEEP LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
DRY FALLS LAKE
- All species
- Internal combustion motors prohibited. Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
DUNE LAKE
- All species
- Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Year-round
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
DUSTY LAKE
- All species
- Internal combustion motors prohibited. Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
EPHRATA LAKE
- All species
- CLOSED WATERS.
GADWALL LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
GOOSE LAKE, LOWER
- Bluegill
- Year-round
- No min. size. No daily limit. Up to 5 over 6" may be retained.
- Crappie
- Year-round
- Min. size 9". Daily limit 10.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
HAMPTON LAKES
(Lower and Upper)
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
HARRIS LAKE
- All species
- Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Year-round
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
HEN LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
HOMESTEAD LAKE
- All species
- Internal combustion motors prohibited. Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Year-round
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
HOURGLASS LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
LEMNA LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
LENICE LAKE
- All species
- Internal combustion motors prohibited. Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
LENORE LAKE
- All species
- Internal combustion motors prohibited. Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
an area within a 200-yard radius of trash rack leading to the irrigation pumping station (south end of the lake)
- All species
- CLOSED WATERS.
an area approx. 100 yards beyond the mouth of inlet stream to State Hwy. 17
- All species
- CLOSED WATERS.
MARTHA LAKE
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
MERRY LAKE
- All species
- Internal combustion motors prohibited. Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
MOSES LAKE
- Bluegill
- Year-round
- Min. size 8". Daily limit 5.
- Crappie
- Year-round
- Min. size 9". Daily limit 10.
- Yellow perch
- Year-round
- No min. size. Daily limit 25.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
NORTH POTHOLES RESERVE PONDS
those ponds or portions of ponds lying within the North Potholes Reserve
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Day before opening of general waterfowl season
- Statewide min. size/daily limit. Fishing from any floating device except float tubes prohibited.
NUNNALLY LAKE
- All species
- CLOSED WATERS the outlet stream to Nunnally Lake. Internal combustion motors prohibited. Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
PARK LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
PERCH LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
PILLAR LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
PING POND
- All species
- Open for juvenile anglers, senior anglers and anglers with a disability who possess a designated harvester companion card only. Two-Pole not allowed.
- All game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
POACHER LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
POTHOLES RESERVOIR
- Bluegill
- Year-round
- No min. size. Daily limit up to 25 bluegill and crappie combined.
- Crappie
- Year-round
- Min. size 9". Daily limit up to 25 bluegill and crappie combined.
- Yellow perch
- Year-round
- No min. size. Daily limit 25.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
QUINCY LAKE
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
SADDLE MOUNTAIN LAKE
- All species
- CLOSED WATERS.
SAGO LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
SEDGE LAKE
- All species
- Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Year-round
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
SHOVELER LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
SNIPE LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
SPRING LAKES
(Upper and Lower)
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
STRATFORD/BROOK LAKE
Stratford area
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
TERN LAKE
- All species
- Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Year-round
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
VIC MEYERS (RAINBOW) LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit. Except: Eastern brook trout count as part of trout daily limit.
WARDEN LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
WARDEN LAKE, SOUTH
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
WIDGEON LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
WINCHESTER WASTEWAY
that portion within Winchester Game Reserve
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
CRAB CREEK
from mouth to Morgan Lake Rd. in Sec. 36
- All game fish
- Sat. before Memorial Day-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
from Morgan Lake Rd. in Sec. 36 to O'Sullivan Dam (including Marsh Units I and II impoundments)
- All species
- CLOSED WATERS.
from the confluence of the Moses Lake outlets to Sand Dunes Rd. including tributaries
- Bluegill
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit. Except: Combined limit of bluegill and crappie is 25 fish.
- Crappie
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit. Except: Min. length 9". Combined limit of crappie and bluegill is 25 fish.
- Yellow perch
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit. Except: Daily limit is 25 fish.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit for lakes, ponds, and reservoirs apply.
from the fountain buoy and shoreline markers of 150' downstream of the Alder Street fill to Grant County Rd. 7 NE
- Bluegill
- Year-round
- Min. size 8". Daily limit 5.
- Crappie
- Year-round
- Min. size 9". Daily limit 10.
- Yellow perch
- Year-round
- Daily limit 25.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit for lakes, ponds, and reservoirs apply.
above Grant County Rd. 7 and all tributaries except Goose Creek in the city of Wilbur
- All game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
HAYS CREEK
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
PARA-JUVENILE LAKE
- All species
- Two-Pole not allowed.
- All game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
ROYAL LAKE AND ROYAL SLOUGH
including Marsh Unit 4 impoundments
- All species
- CLOSED WATERS.
TEAL LAKE, NORTH & SOUTH
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
ROOSEVELT LAKE TRIBUTARIES
between Grand Coulee Dam and the Canadian border except tributaries listed elsewhere in Special Rules
- All game fish
- Sat. before Memorial Day-Oct. 31
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
- Sturgeon
- Sat. before Memorial Day-Oct. 31
- Closed.
ROOSEVELT LAKE
Grand Coulee Dam to Little Dalles power line crossing including Hawk Creek down- stream of the falls at Hawk Creek Campground and the Spokane Arm upstream to 400' below Little Falls Dam CRC (549)
- Kokanee
- Year-round
- No min. size. Daily limit 6. No more than 2 with intact adipose fins may be retained.
- Trout
- Year-round
- No min. size. Daily limit 5. Only adipose fin-clipped trout may be retained.
- Walleye
- Year-round
- Daily limit 16. No size restriction.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
- Salmon
- Year-round
- Salmon count toward trout daily limit. No catch record card required.
- Sturgeon
- Year-round
- Closed.
BANKS LAKE
- All species
- Chumming permitted.
- Crappie
- Year-round
- Min. size 9". Daily limit 10.
- Yellow perch
- Year-round
- No min. size. Daily limit 25.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
RUFUS WOODS LAKE
from Chief Joseph Dam upstream to State Route 155 Bridge
- All species
- Douglas County shore (State license), on the water (either State or Tribal License accepted), Reservation (Tribal permit required or either license accepted at a signed "Designated Fishing Areas" (DFA) located and marked as such on the Colville Reservation shoreline).
- Trout
- Year-round
- Daily limit 2.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
- Sturgeon
- Year-round
- Closed.
from State Route 155 Bridge upstream to Grand Coulee Dam
- All species
- CLOSED WATERS.
Largemouth bass
The maximum number of individual fish legally harvested per harvester per day. Bag limits are only for properly licensed anglers actively harvesting the species. People who are not actively harvesting or are not properly licensed (if a license is required) may NOT be counted for the purpose of bag limits.
No person shall harvest any individual fish greater than the maximum size except as permitted.
The maximum number of trophy individuals legally harvested per harvester per day. A trophy is any individual of a length greater than the max size limit. Trophy individuals are included in the daily bag limit unless stated otherwise.
Total length means the straight line distance from the most forward point of the head with the mouth closed, to the farthest tip of the tail with the tail compressed or squeezed, while the fish is lying on its side.
WA Non-game and Food Fish
You may not harvest in freshwater any fish not classified as a Food Fish or Game Fish except for Northern pike.
WA Snagging
You may not snag or attempt to snag fish. It is unlawful to possess a fish taken from freshwater that was not hooked inside the mouth or on the head. The head is defined as any portion forward of the rear margin of the gill plate.
WA Use of Drugs, Explosives or Poisons
You may not use drugs, explosives, or poison that may kill or injure fish and wildlife.
WA Crossbow
You may not use a crossbow to harvest fish or shellfish.
WA Sale or Barter
You may not offer any recreationally-caught fish or shellfish for sale or barter.
WA Possession and Fishing Rules
You may not fish for or harvest fish or shellfish in an area with catch in your possession that does not meet the rules of that area. However, you may pass through such an area without stopping to fish. Also, you may catch fish in one area and land them at a port in a different area even if that different area is closed or has different rules, with the exception of landing halibut in a closed area, or landing bottom fish caught in Oregon.
WA Harvesting another Person's Limit
You may not harvest any part of another person's daily limit, except for persons who possess a Designated Harvester Companion Card unless otherwise specified.
WA Bait
You may not chum (broadcast feed) to attract Game Fish unless authorized by Special Rules. You many not use salmon, herring, or halibut for anything other than human consumption or fishing bait. It is unlawful to possess or use live aquatic animals as bait, except: (1) Live aquatic animals (other than fish) collected from the water being fished; (2) Live sand shrimp; (3) Live forage fish in the Columbia River (downstream of Rocky Point/Tongue Point).
WA Transport of Live Fish
You may not transport live fish or relocate shellfish or shells into state waters without a permit.
WA Use of a Net
You may not use a net, except when using a dip net to land legally-hooked fish, a forage fish dip net to harvest forage fish.
WA Use of Chemicals
You may not use any type of chemical irritant to harvest fish, or shellfish unless a special exception has been made by the Director.
WA Bow and Arrow, Spear and Spearfishing
You may not fish for Game Fish, salmon, sturgeon, shad, octopus, crab, or other shellfish with bow and arrow, spear, or spearfishing gear unless authorized by Special Rules.
WA Gaff Hooks
You may not use a gaff hook, except to land lingcod (in Marine Areas 1-3 and 4 West of Bonilla-Tatoosh line), halibut, tuna, or dogfish shark that will be retained.
WA Season for Fishing Rivers Streams and Beaver Ponds
Rivers, streams and beaver ponds are open the Saturday before Memorial Day through October 31. Beaver ponds located within or connected to streams listed as open to trout and other game fish follow the same rules as the stream. Lakes, ponds, and reservoirs are open to fishing for game fish (except Dolly Varden/bull trout and grass carp) year-round.
WA Hook and Line Angling
Hook and line angling only. Barbed or barbless hooks may be used, and a hook may be single- point, double, or treble, but not more than one line with up to three hooks per angler may be used.
WA Cooperation with Data Collection
You must cooperate with data collection or other sampling of fish, shellfish or seaweed upon request of Department of Fish and Wildlife personnel. This includes relinquishing any part of a salmon, steelhead, or other species of fish containing coded-wire tags.
No min. size in lakes, ponds, and reservoirs. Only largemouth bass less than 12" may be retained, except 1 over 17" may be retained. Daily limit 5. No size restriction/daily limit in rivers, streams, and beaver ponds.
For more information please see State of Washington Fishing Regulations
DELANEY SPRING CREEK
- All game fish
- Sat. before Memorial Day-Oct. 31
- Statewide min. size/daily limit. Except: Eastern brook trout count as part of trout daily limit.
FRENCHMAN HILLS WASTEWAYS AND DRAINS
- All game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit. Except: Eastern brook trout count as part of trout daily limit.
GRANT AND ADAMS COUNTIES
all inlets and outlets of lakes, ponds, and reservoirs and all irrigation canals, wasteways, and drains in Grant and Adams counties except for Crab Creek, Rocky Ford Creek and Ponds, Columbia Basin Hatchery Creek, Bobcat Creek, Coyote Creek, Frenchman Hills Wasteway and Drains, Hays Creek, Red Rock Creek, Sand Hollow Creek, Lenore Lake inlet and outlet, and Nunnally Lake outlet.
- All game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide rules for lakes, ponds, and reservoirs apply for all species.
NUNNALLY LAKE OUTLET
Outlet stream of Nunnally Lake
- All species
- CLOSED WATERS.
RED ROCK CREEK
- All game fish
- Sat. before Memorial Day-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
ROCKY FORD CREEK AND PONDS
- All species
- No wading. Fly fishing only. Bank fishing only.
- All game fish
- Year-round
- Catch-and-release.
SAND HOLLOW CREEK
from SR 243 upstream and all tributaries
- All game fish
- Sat. before Memorial Day-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
BEDA LAKE
- All species
- Selective gear rules. Internal combustion motors prohibited.
- Trout
- Year-round
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
BLUE LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
BURKE LAKE
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
CALICHE LAKE, UPPER
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
CASCADE LAKE
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
CATTAIL LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
CLIFF LAKE
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
COOT LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
CRYSTAL LAKE
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
CUP LAKE
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
DEEP LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
DRY FALLS LAKE
- All species
- Internal combustion motors prohibited. Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
DUNE LAKE
- All species
- Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Year-round
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
DUSTY LAKE
- All species
- Internal combustion motors prohibited. Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
EPHRATA LAKE
- All species
- CLOSED WATERS.
GADWALL LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
GOOSE LAKE, LOWER
- Bluegill
- Year-round
- No min. size. No daily limit. Up to 5 over 6" may be retained.
- Crappie
- Year-round
- Min. size 9". Daily limit 10.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
HAMPTON LAKES
(Lower and Upper)
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
HARRIS LAKE
- All species
- Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Year-round
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
HEN LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
HOMESTEAD LAKE
- All species
- Internal combustion motors prohibited. Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Year-round
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
HOURGLASS LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
LEMNA LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
LENICE LAKE
- All species
- Internal combustion motors prohibited. Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
LENORE LAKE
- All species
- Internal combustion motors prohibited. Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
an area within a 200-yard radius of trash rack leading to the irrigation pumping station (south end of the lake)
- All species
- CLOSED WATERS.
an area approx. 100 yards beyond the mouth of inlet stream to State Hwy. 17
- All species
- CLOSED WATERS.
MARTHA LAKE
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
MERRY LAKE
- All species
- Internal combustion motors prohibited. Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
MOSES LAKE
- Bluegill
- Year-round
- Min. size 8". Daily limit 5.
- Crappie
- Year-round
- Min. size 9". Daily limit 10.
- Yellow perch
- Year-round
- No min. size. Daily limit 25.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
NORTH POTHOLES RESERVE PONDS
those ponds or portions of ponds lying within the North Potholes Reserve
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Day before opening of general waterfowl season
- Statewide min. size/daily limit. Fishing from any floating device except float tubes prohibited.
NUNNALLY LAKE
- All species
- CLOSED WATERS the outlet stream to Nunnally Lake. Internal combustion motors prohibited. Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
PARK LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
PERCH LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
PILLAR LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
PING POND
- All species
- Open for juvenile anglers, senior anglers and anglers with a disability who possess a designated harvester companion card only. Two-Pole not allowed.
- All game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
POACHER LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
POTHOLES RESERVOIR
- Bluegill
- Year-round
- No min. size. Daily limit up to 25 bluegill and crappie combined.
- Crappie
- Year-round
- Min. size 9". Daily limit up to 25 bluegill and crappie combined.
- Yellow perch
- Year-round
- No min. size. Daily limit 25.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
QUINCY LAKE
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
SADDLE MOUNTAIN LAKE
- All species
- CLOSED WATERS.
SAGO LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
SEDGE LAKE
- All species
- Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Year-round
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
SHOVELER LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
SNIPE LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
SPRING LAKES
(Upper and Lower)
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
STRATFORD/BROOK LAKE
Stratford area
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
TERN LAKE
- All species
- Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Year-round
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
VIC MEYERS (RAINBOW) LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit. Except: Eastern brook trout count as part of trout daily limit.
WARDEN LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
WARDEN LAKE, SOUTH
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
WIDGEON LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
WINCHESTER WASTEWAY
that portion within Winchester Game Reserve
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
CRAB CREEK
from mouth to Morgan Lake Rd. in Sec. 36
- All game fish
- Sat. before Memorial Day-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
from Morgan Lake Rd. in Sec. 36 to O'Sullivan Dam (including Marsh Units I and II impoundments)
- All species
- CLOSED WATERS.
from the confluence of the Moses Lake outlets to Sand Dunes Rd. including tributaries
- Bluegill
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit. Except: Combined limit of bluegill and crappie is 25 fish.
- Crappie
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit. Except: Min. length 9". Combined limit of crappie and bluegill is 25 fish.
- Yellow perch
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit. Except: Daily limit is 25 fish.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit for lakes, ponds, and reservoirs apply.
from the fountain buoy and shoreline markers of 150' downstream of the Alder Street fill to Grant County Rd. 7 NE
- Bluegill
- Year-round
- Min. size 8". Daily limit 5.
- Crappie
- Year-round
- Min. size 9". Daily limit 10.
- Yellow perch
- Year-round
- Daily limit 25.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit for lakes, ponds, and reservoirs apply.
above Grant County Rd. 7 and all tributaries except Goose Creek in the city of Wilbur
- All game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
HAYS CREEK
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
PARA-JUVENILE LAKE
- All species
- Two-Pole not allowed.
- All game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
ROYAL LAKE AND ROYAL SLOUGH
including Marsh Unit 4 impoundments
- All species
- CLOSED WATERS.
TEAL LAKE, NORTH & SOUTH
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
ROOSEVELT LAKE TRIBUTARIES
between Grand Coulee Dam and the Canadian border except tributaries listed elsewhere in Special Rules
- All game fish
- Sat. before Memorial Day-Oct. 31
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
- Sturgeon
- Sat. before Memorial Day-Oct. 31
- Closed.
ROOSEVELT LAKE
Grand Coulee Dam to Little Dalles power line crossing including Hawk Creek down- stream of the falls at Hawk Creek Campground and the Spokane Arm upstream to 400' below Little Falls Dam CRC (549)
- Kokanee
- Year-round
- No min. size. Daily limit 6. No more than 2 with intact adipose fins may be retained.
- Trout
- Year-round
- No min. size. Daily limit 5. Only adipose fin-clipped trout may be retained.
- Walleye
- Year-round
- Daily limit 16. No size restriction.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
- Salmon
- Year-round
- Salmon count toward trout daily limit. No catch record card required.
- Sturgeon
- Year-round
- Closed.
BANKS LAKE
- All species
- Chumming permitted.
- Crappie
- Year-round
- Min. size 9". Daily limit 10.
- Yellow perch
- Year-round
- No min. size. Daily limit 25.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
RUFUS WOODS LAKE
from Chief Joseph Dam upstream to State Route 155 Bridge
- All species
- Douglas County shore (State license), on the water (either State or Tribal License accepted), Reservation (Tribal permit required or either license accepted at a signed "Designated Fishing Areas" (DFA) located and marked as such on the Colville Reservation shoreline).
- Trout
- Year-round
- Daily limit 2.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
- Sturgeon
- Year-round
- Closed.
from State Route 155 Bridge upstream to Grand Coulee Dam
- All species
- CLOSED WATERS.
Bluegill
WA Non-game and Food Fish
You may not harvest in freshwater any fish not classified as a Food Fish or Game Fish except for Northern pike.
WA Snagging
You may not snag or attempt to snag fish. It is unlawful to possess a fish taken from freshwater that was not hooked inside the mouth or on the head. The head is defined as any portion forward of the rear margin of the gill plate.
WA Use of Drugs, Explosives or Poisons
You may not use drugs, explosives, or poison that may kill or injure fish and wildlife.
WA Crossbow
You may not use a crossbow to harvest fish or shellfish.
WA Sale or Barter
You may not offer any recreationally-caught fish or shellfish for sale or barter.
WA Possession and Fishing Rules
You may not fish for or harvest fish or shellfish in an area with catch in your possession that does not meet the rules of that area. However, you may pass through such an area without stopping to fish. Also, you may catch fish in one area and land them at a port in a different area even if that different area is closed or has different rules, with the exception of landing halibut in a closed area, or landing bottom fish caught in Oregon.
WA Harvesting another Person's Limit
You may not harvest any part of another person's daily limit, except for persons who possess a Designated Harvester Companion Card unless otherwise specified.
WA Bait
You may not chum (broadcast feed) to attract Game Fish unless authorized by Special Rules. You many not use salmon, herring, or halibut for anything other than human consumption or fishing bait. It is unlawful to possess or use live aquatic animals as bait, except: (1) Live aquatic animals (other than fish) collected from the water being fished; (2) Live sand shrimp; (3) Live forage fish in the Columbia River (downstream of Rocky Point/Tongue Point).
WA Transport of Live Fish
You may not transport live fish or relocate shellfish or shells into state waters without a permit.
WA Use of a Net
You may not use a net, except when using a dip net to land legally-hooked fish, a forage fish dip net to harvest forage fish.
WA Use of Chemicals
You may not use any type of chemical irritant to harvest fish, or shellfish unless a special exception has been made by the Director.
WA Gaff Hooks
You may not use a gaff hook, except to land lingcod (in Marine Areas 1-3 and 4 West of Bonilla-Tatoosh line), halibut, tuna, or dogfish shark that will be retained.
WA Season for Fishing Rivers Streams and Beaver Ponds
Rivers, streams and beaver ponds are open the Saturday before Memorial Day through October 31. Beaver ponds located within or connected to streams listed as open to trout and other game fish follow the same rules as the stream. Lakes, ponds, and reservoirs are open to fishing for game fish (except Dolly Varden/bull trout and grass carp) year-round.
WA Hook and Line Angling
Hook and line angling only. Barbed or barbless hooks may be used, and a hook may be single- point, double, or treble, but not more than one line with up to three hooks per angler may be used.
WA Cooperation with Data Collection
You must cooperate with data collection or other sampling of fish, shellfish or seaweed upon request of Department of Fish and Wildlife personnel. This includes relinquishing any part of a salmon, steelhead, or other species of fish containing coded-wire tags.
No min. size. No daily limit.
For more information please see State of Washington Fishing Regulations
DELANEY SPRING CREEK
- All game fish
- Sat. before Memorial Day-Oct. 31
- Statewide min. size/daily limit. Except: Eastern brook trout count as part of trout daily limit.
FRENCHMAN HILLS WASTEWAYS AND DRAINS
- All game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit. Except: Eastern brook trout count as part of trout daily limit.
GRANT AND ADAMS COUNTIES
all inlets and outlets of lakes, ponds, and reservoirs and all irrigation canals, wasteways, and drains in Grant and Adams counties except for Crab Creek, Rocky Ford Creek and Ponds, Columbia Basin Hatchery Creek, Bobcat Creek, Coyote Creek, Frenchman Hills Wasteway and Drains, Hays Creek, Red Rock Creek, Sand Hollow Creek, Lenore Lake inlet and outlet, and Nunnally Lake outlet.
- All game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide rules for lakes, ponds, and reservoirs apply for all species.
NUNNALLY LAKE OUTLET
Outlet stream of Nunnally Lake
- All species
- CLOSED WATERS.
RED ROCK CREEK
- All game fish
- Sat. before Memorial Day-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
ROCKY FORD CREEK AND PONDS
- All species
- No wading. Fly fishing only. Bank fishing only.
- All game fish
- Year-round
- Catch-and-release.
SAND HOLLOW CREEK
from SR 243 upstream and all tributaries
- All game fish
- Sat. before Memorial Day-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
BEDA LAKE
- All species
- Selective gear rules. Internal combustion motors prohibited.
- Trout
- Year-round
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
BLUE LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
BURKE LAKE
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
CALICHE LAKE, UPPER
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
CASCADE LAKE
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
CATTAIL LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
CLIFF LAKE
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
COOT LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
CRYSTAL LAKE
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
CUP LAKE
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
DEEP LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
DRY FALLS LAKE
- All species
- Internal combustion motors prohibited. Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
DUNE LAKE
- All species
- Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Year-round
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
DUSTY LAKE
- All species
- Internal combustion motors prohibited. Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
EPHRATA LAKE
- All species
- CLOSED WATERS.
GADWALL LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
GOOSE LAKE, LOWER
- Bluegill
- Year-round
- No min. size. No daily limit. Up to 5 over 6" may be retained.
- Crappie
- Year-round
- Min. size 9". Daily limit 10.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
HAMPTON LAKES
(Lower and Upper)
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
HARRIS LAKE
- All species
- Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Year-round
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
HEN LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
HOMESTEAD LAKE
- All species
- Internal combustion motors prohibited. Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Year-round
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
HOURGLASS LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
LEMNA LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
LENICE LAKE
- All species
- Internal combustion motors prohibited. Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
LENORE LAKE
- All species
- Internal combustion motors prohibited. Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
an area within a 200-yard radius of trash rack leading to the irrigation pumping station (south end of the lake)
- All species
- CLOSED WATERS.
an area approx. 100 yards beyond the mouth of inlet stream to State Hwy. 17
- All species
- CLOSED WATERS.
MARTHA LAKE
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
MERRY LAKE
- All species
- Internal combustion motors prohibited. Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
MOSES LAKE
- Bluegill
- Year-round
- Min. size 8". Daily limit 5.
- Crappie
- Year-round
- Min. size 9". Daily limit 10.
- Yellow perch
- Year-round
- No min. size. Daily limit 25.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
NORTH POTHOLES RESERVE PONDS
those ponds or portions of ponds lying within the North Potholes Reserve
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Day before opening of general waterfowl season
- Statewide min. size/daily limit. Fishing from any floating device except float tubes prohibited.
NUNNALLY LAKE
- All species
- CLOSED WATERS the outlet stream to Nunnally Lake. Internal combustion motors prohibited. Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Mar. 1-Nov. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
PARK LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
PERCH LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
PILLAR LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
PING POND
- All species
- Open for juvenile anglers, senior anglers and anglers with a disability who possess a designated harvester companion card only. Two-Pole not allowed.
- All game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
POACHER LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
POTHOLES RESERVOIR
- Bluegill
- Year-round
- No min. size. Daily limit up to 25 bluegill and crappie combined.
- Crappie
- Year-round
- Min. size 9". Daily limit up to 25 bluegill and crappie combined.
- Yellow perch
- Year-round
- No min. size. Daily limit 25.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
QUINCY LAKE
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
SADDLE MOUNTAIN LAKE
- All species
- CLOSED WATERS.
SAGO LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
SEDGE LAKE
- All species
- Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Year-round
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
SHOVELER LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
SNIPE LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
SPRING LAKES
(Upper and Lower)
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
STRATFORD/BROOK LAKE
Stratford area
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
TERN LAKE
- All species
- Selective gear rules.
- Trout
- Year-round
- Min. size 18". Daily limit 1.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
VIC MEYERS (RAINBOW) LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit. Except: Eastern brook trout count as part of trout daily limit.
WARDEN LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
WARDEN LAKE, SOUTH
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
WIDGEON LAKE
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
WINCHESTER WASTEWAY
that portion within Winchester Game Reserve
- All game fish
- Mar. 1-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
CRAB CREEK
from mouth to Morgan Lake Rd. in Sec. 36
- All game fish
- Sat. before Memorial Day-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
from Morgan Lake Rd. in Sec. 36 to O'Sullivan Dam (including Marsh Units I and II impoundments)
- All species
- CLOSED WATERS.
from the confluence of the Moses Lake outlets to Sand Dunes Rd. including tributaries
- Bluegill
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit. Except: Combined limit of bluegill and crappie is 25 fish.
- Crappie
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit. Except: Min. length 9". Combined limit of crappie and bluegill is 25 fish.
- Yellow perch
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit. Except: Daily limit is 25 fish.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit for lakes, ponds, and reservoirs apply.
from the fountain buoy and shoreline markers of 150' downstream of the Alder Street fill to Grant County Rd. 7 NE
- Bluegill
- Year-round
- Min. size 8". Daily limit 5.
- Crappie
- Year-round
- Min. size 9". Daily limit 10.
- Yellow perch
- Year-round
- Daily limit 25.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit for lakes, ponds, and reservoirs apply.
above Grant County Rd. 7 and all tributaries except Goose Creek in the city of Wilbur
- All game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
HAYS CREEK
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.-Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
PARA-JUVENILE LAKE
- All species
- Two-Pole not allowed.
- All game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
ROYAL LAKE AND ROYAL SLOUGH
including Marsh Unit 4 impoundments
- All species
- CLOSED WATERS.
TEAL LAKE, NORTH & SOUTH
- All game fish
- 4th Sat. in Apr.- Sept. 30
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
ROOSEVELT LAKE TRIBUTARIES
between Grand Coulee Dam and the Canadian border except tributaries listed elsewhere in Special Rules
- All game fish
- Sat. before Memorial Day-Oct. 31
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
- Sturgeon
- Sat. before Memorial Day-Oct. 31
- Closed.
ROOSEVELT LAKE
Grand Coulee Dam to Little Dalles power line crossing including Hawk Creek down- stream of the falls at Hawk Creek Campground and the Spokane Arm upstream to 400' below Little Falls Dam CRC (549)
- Kokanee
- Year-round
- No min. size. Daily limit 6. No more than 2 with intact adipose fins may be retained.
- Trout
- Year-round
- No min. size. Daily limit 5. Only adipose fin-clipped trout may be retained.
- Walleye
- Year-round
- Daily limit 16. No size restriction.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
- Salmon
- Year-round
- Salmon count toward trout daily limit. No catch record card required.
- Sturgeon
- Year-round
- Closed.
BANKS LAKE
- All species
- Chumming permitted.
- Crappie
- Year-round
- Min. size 9". Daily limit 10.
- Yellow perch
- Year-round
- No min. size. Daily limit 25.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
RUFUS WOODS LAKE
from Chief Joseph Dam upstream to State Route 155 Bridge
- All species
- Douglas County shore (State license), on the water (either State or Tribal License accepted), Reservation (Tribal permit required or either license accepted at a signed "Designated Fishing Areas" (DFA) located and marked as such on the Colville Reservation shoreline).
- Trout
- Year-round
- Daily limit 2.
- Other game fish
- Year-round
- Statewide min. size/daily limit.
- Sturgeon
- Year-round
- Closed.
from State Route 155 Bridge upstream to Grand Coulee Dam
- All species
- CLOSED WATERS.
FAQ about Lower Goose Lake fishing
- Smallmouth bass - 9 members reported to have caught this fish
- Largemouth bass - 8 members reported to have caught this fish
- Bluegill - 1 members reported to have caught this fish
- @devinreice reported a nice Largemouth bass.
- @devinreice reported a nice Smallmouth bass.
- @devinreice reported a nice Largemouth bass.
- @devinreice reported a nice Largemouth bass.
- @chasestg12 reported a nice Bluegill.
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