I could be mistaken but I don't believe there are a lot of rainbows in Silver anymore.

yea, im sure the Tiger Musky have killed off most of the trout in this lake. i caught one last summer but it's nothing like it use to be.

Don't put the tigers down too fast yet. The state chose not to plant many trout in Silver right now. They are using the Tigers to thin the perch and pumpkin seed that were getting way out of control.

The numbers of perch and seed are still really high, but the size is getting larger. With the crappie rules, the crappie are getting larger, the LMB are doing well, and I expect in a few years they will again start planting more Browns and Bows again.

I am not exactly a strong supporter of our F&W, but in this case, I think they got it right.

Well I can agree with some of the stuff AA said. I've spent some time on this lake with WDFW biologists and been present when some home owners came to the boat launch to holler at them for planting tiger musky. If they are correct, then it's the land owners we can thank for the trout fishing situation. The water quality is not good enough to plant the huge numbers of fingerling trout this lake used to get. The little fish die. Instead, they plant catchable size trout that aren't so likely to die. The trade off is this: 40,000 fingerlings cost the same a far, far lower quantity of catchable size trout. So the state puts in less trout because the water quality is low. They put the trout in other lakes. Improve the water quality; no more leach fields in shore homes, hook ups to the sewer system, stop over fertilizing the lawns and all that stuff and the quality of the water would improve to the point where that 40,000 fingerlings could go in. But that is NEVER going to happen because the home owners aren't going to pay for that. If you want some great info on what tiger musky can do to improve a trout lake: ask WDFW about Curlew Lake. All the proof is there.
Perch were illegally planted in silver, as were walleye. Several years ago they started showing up in electro-fishing surveys. The population of course is exploding. So there goes the crappie and bluegill sizes. Silver was one of the only lakes in our area that could produce a crappie that could grow to the retainable legal size in their roughly 4 year life span. No longer! The perch are eating them out of house and home. So the size restriction is going to go away because the crappie can't make it with all the competition. If you see or know some one who is a bucket biologist please kick them in the ass.
Tiger musky were originally planted to reduce the quantity of large Tench in silver lake, and to provide people with a trophy sized catch potential. They will have to work hard to keep up with the perch. But since perch and tigers like the same areas of the lake, unlike the trout, it's a safe bet that perch colored lures around weeds will continue to be a perennial favorite.
Our local warm water biologist are an open book when it comes to this type of information. These guys want the facts out there so the "the musky are eating all the ....." statement get replaced with "how can we improve the water quality?"

I have fished this lake quite a bit and never caught a trout out of it. I have had very good days bass and musky fishing and I am looking forward to this year cuz the musky were getting so close to legal size. The comment above was the first I have heard of walleye in the lake. Is there good numbers of walleye or just strays? Im looking for a good walleye lake close to spokane. Any tips on where to find them in the lake?

If you want walleye close to Spokane you can try Liberty Lake. But I prefer to drive to Hunters on Lake Roosevelt. There haven't't been too many walleye pulled out of Silver, they were some bucket biologist project a few years back. I don't know of too many folks hitting Liberty for the walleye either. At least not to many people are mentioning it in their reports here. I lived on Liberty for 3 years and never caught one.