Fishing at Liberty Lake, Elko County, Nevada

• Overview

  In Nevada, Liberty Lake falls inside Elko County. It lies 10,066 feet above sea level. This is a pocket water of some 15 acres, and every part of it is reachable from the bank. By elevation it is in the upper part of our Nevada listings. Start from Spring Creek, 14 miles down the road. Elko is 26 miles and Carlin 38 miles. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Liberty Lake

  Our records hold no depth for this water. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Open biodiversity records for Elko County list brook trout, rainbow trout and tahoe sucker. What holds for the county may not hold for this water. On Liberty Lake the first feature you find is usually worth a session.

• Seasonal Patterns

  August is the warm end of the year here, averaging about 62°F, while January sits near 24°F. A hard winter is normal, and the thaw brings a strong few weeks. The open season starts with the thaw, near enough late April. Ice usually gives way near late April, and forms again about early December. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. The season on Liberty Lake follows the weather closely.

• Tackle & Baits

  The rules here are undocumented as far as public sources go. There is no mapped parking or launch close by, which usually means walking in. For the trout, small spinners and a box of nymphs cover both approaches. Season dates differ by species, so read the table. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. Favre Lake, 0.6 miles away, makes the obvious fallback. What applies at Liberty Lake may have changed since it was mapped.