Walleyes at Liberty

Type: Nontidal
Region: Northern
Location: Liberty Reservoir

I just wanted to share a couple of photos of a near citation (25 ��) Walleye I caught at Liberty Reservoir while fishing on my birthday, Wednesday, June 2.

DNR RESPONSE: Walleye in Liberty Reservoir seem to be only caught occasionally. I don�t get the impression that people go to Liberty to specifically fish for them. Our most recent electrofishing survery (fall 2007) on Liberty only found 2 adults in 30 electrofishing stations, each station follows roughly 1300 ft of shoreline. The walleye population seems to have peaked in the late 1990�s in Liberty Reservoir and we haven�t seen that many since then. Liberty can grown really nice walleye and I have personally observed some 8 lb fish there.

Mark Staley
Central Region Manager
MD DNR Inland Fisheries