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By: linty
Posted: 5/17/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
After a friend recommended Badger - I thought I would give it a try. It was a beautiful morning with just a bit of a breeze and plenty of sunshine - we hit the water by about 7:30. The water was clear...
By: climbster22
Posted: 5/12/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Lures were a no-go............. Started to sting em with the old bumble bee................ also used Rob special and had some luck.........
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/2/2009
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Easy day of fishing.
My 2nd trip to Badger this year. Last was opening day.
This day it was my son and I. His 1st trip of the season.
Easy limits, trolling roaster tails, and rapala tigerfire plugs...
By: clyde152
Posted: 4/27/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, what a kick butt day. Went out to badger to do some catching. wasnt too crowded by the evening rained off and on but wasnt nothing to complian i trolled for the first time on this lake with some ...
By: P-FITZ98
Posted: 4/27/2009
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/27/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Opening day!!! This was my second time to Badger and we found a nice underwater shelf and proceded to consistently catch one after another.Only one cut, the rest looked like trips, threw back many din...
By: riprap101
Posted: 7/9/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/8/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Mike and I fished Badger for the first time. Launched the boat around 6:30am. Water temp. was close to 74. Began trolling on top with jointed Rapalas. Caught a handful of small bass (released), not mu...
By: TroutCowboy
Posted: 6/12/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/8/2008
Hot Spots: 3
We hit Badger about 8am and spent the better part of the morning throwing everything we had with little action. Spinners, roostertails, rattlebaits, Rapalas... you name it. We had a few small takers, ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/2/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I arrived at Badger late afternoon around 3:00 pm and talked to the anglers that lined the bank by the boat dock. Many had been there all day and had nothing to show for it. There were about 10 boat...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/1/2007
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/29/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Wow.
Late-season fishing at the ol' fishing 'hole', Badger Lake.
We purposely started out LATE (for us, anyway) and arrived at the lake at 8:00 a.m.
The weather featured high clouds that did ...
By: TroutCowboy
Posted: 9/24/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/23/2007
Hot Spots: 0
what a fantastic day out on badger! coincidentally, i looked back thru the older reports for badger and one year ago TO THE DAY i wrote a similar report after a very successful day. what a bummer that...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/21/2007
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/21/2007
Hot Spots: 0
We did it again! The BBs of BL arrived at Badger early in the morning; while the rest of the county seemed to be draped in fog----- at Badger Lake the lake surface had only gossamer wisps of vapor da...
By: Rooscooter
Posted: 9/21/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/21/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I Decided to go to Badger for the first time this year. I usually try to get out there at least once or twice a year. I got on the water about 10:00 am. It was clear, with a slight breeze out of th...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/16/2007
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/16/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Has Fall fell yet? YOU DECIDE.
The wind picked-up during this latest foray on Badger Lake; it was calm when we launched the boat early in the morning.
We spent the week preparing a bevy (yes, ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/8/2007
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/7/2007
Hot Spots: 0
A sheet of GLASS.
That would describe Badger Lake on this early morning; just before sun-up. Quiet as a church--- except for some early-morning coyotes howling in the distance.
We poked the bo...
By: hinds2912
Posted: 9/3/2007
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/3/2007
Hot Spots: 0
After a quick cruise to the end of the lake and partway back, we found a place to have our picnic and start fishing. The kids ate quickly and grabbed their poles. Within just a few casts the first L...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/30/2007
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/28/2007
Hot Spots: 0
The Other Guy in the Boat (it is HIS boat) got a lighting kit for navigation, so we thought we'd try fishing Badger Lake in the evening--- from sunset until O dark: thirty.
Nice evening conditions ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/7/2007
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/7/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Ah, to be back on the lake early in the morning...
The lake was tabletop smooth as we slipped the boat into the lake as dawn crawled over the cliffs. The sun began to spill over those same cliffs ...
By: zlawman
Posted: 6/25/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/24/2007
Hot Spots: 0
The family and I arrived at the lake about 11:00. It was my kids first time fishing in a boat. It was a nice sunny day except that the wind was blowing which made it tough to fish. We trolled from ...
By: BigDave
Posted: 6/3/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/3/2007
Hot Spots: 0
We caught our limit of Rainbow and Cutthroat trout at Badger Lake in about two hours. We began fishing around noon and used two colors of leaded line with a jackloid and red wedding rings, trolling a...
By: Gone Fishin
Posted: 5/31/2007
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/30/2007
Hot Spots: 0
So two friends and I headed out to badger yesterday, first time with the boat out there. The original plan was to go out and fish for trout or cutthroat but a little exploring of the lake led to othe...
By: T-Bone
Posted: 5/29/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/29/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I began my fishing day at Badger Lake by picking up a kitchen garbage bag load of trash at the access site. High winds and cold early morning temperatures made for some uncomfortable fishing; prior to...
By: sirrahcd
Posted: 5/12/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/30/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Slow day over all, but my 7 year old daughter caught her "second fish" ever. I 5 lb. 6 once rainbow. Made the whole day worthwhile. Fish was caught trolling the shore at about 20 feet using a bumbl...
Posted: 5/7/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/6/2007
Hot Spots: 0
WOW. The BBs of BL got "taken to school" by a bunch of fish that proved to be as stubborn as trying to pry a fat guy off of a bag of pork rinds.
The setup: We arrived at the lake at sunrise (as w...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/29/2007
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/29/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Stellar Day on Badger, large triplods and mid sized planters seem willing to take whatever you offer. April-May this is the best trout lake in Eastern Washington has has been for the past 10 years
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/29/2007
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/28/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Once again Badger lake has come through for us. We showed up about 6 am and we caught our limit of rainbows within 2 hours. The banks were loaded with people, elbow to elbow. Looking around, it...
