{"id":530,"date":"2012-12-20T18:24:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T02:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flyfishersproshop.com\/blog\/?p=530"},"modified":"2012-12-20T18:24:45","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T02:24:45","slug":"open-winter-fishery-on-leader-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersproshop.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/20\/open-winter-fishery-on-leader-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Open winter fishery on Leader Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;\">WDFW FISHING RULE CHANGE<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife<br \/>\n600 Capitol Way North, Olympia, WA 98501-1091<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wdfw.wa.gov\/\">http:\/\/wdfw.wa.gov<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">December 18, 2012<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><strong>Open winter fishery on Leader Lake<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><strong>Action:<\/strong>\u00a0Open Leader Lake to fishing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><strong>Effective dates:<\/strong>\u00a0Jan. 1 through April 26, 2013<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><strong>Species affected:<\/strong>\u00a0All game fish<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Leader Lake, located 3 miles west of the town of Okanogan on Hwy 20.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><strong>Reason for action:<\/strong>\u00a0This four-month fishery will provide winter angling opportunity in the Omak\/Okanogan area and take advantage of an abundant spiny ray population within Leader Lake. New regulations proposed for Leader Lake would open this water year around, and all public comment has been favorable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><strong>Other Information:<\/strong>\u00a0Statewide gear and freshwater species rules are in effect for all game fish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><strong>Information contacts:<\/strong>\u00a0Bob Jateff, District 6 Fish Biologist, (509) 997-0316, Jeff Korth, Region 2 Fish Program Manager, (509) 754-4624.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Fishers must have a current Washington fishing license, appropriate to the fishery. Check the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/wdfw.wa.gov\/fishing\/regulations\/\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">WDFW &#8220;Fishing in Washington&#8221; rules pamphlet<\/span>\u00a0<\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">for details on fishing seasons and regulations. Fishing rules are subject to change. Check the WDFW Fishing hotline for the latest rule information at (360) 902-2500, press 2 for recreational rules. For the Shellfish Rule Change hotline call (360)796-3215 or toll free 1-866-880-5431.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WDFW FISHING RULE CHANGE\u00a0 Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife 600 Capitol Way North, Olympia, WA 98501-1091 http:\/\/wdfw.wa.gov December 18, 2012 Open winter fishery on Leader Lake Action:\u00a0Open Leader Lake to fishing. Effective dates:\u00a0Jan. 1 through April 26, 2013 Species affected:\u00a0All game fish Location:\u00a0Leader Lake, located 3 miles west of the town of Okanogan on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wdfw-fishing-rule-changes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p27r3u-8y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersproshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersproshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersproshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersproshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersproshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersproshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersproshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersproshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersproshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersproshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}