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By: RedderShredder
Posted: 5/9/2024
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/9/2024
Hot Spots: 0
Started off around 9:30am with my brother. Kokanee was the main goal. We motored down to the far end of the lake and started trolling with rods from on the surface down to 40'. The first fish was our ...
By: Conradlam
Posted: 9/22/2021
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/22/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to stay local and fish Badger lake. Although this lake is smallish it does have some deeper 100’+ sections towards the middle bend. I marked two areas that held schools of fish.
We are appro...
By: Dorsal Fishing
Posted: 9/22/2021
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/22/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Took the kiddos down to Badger for the first time since they killed it off. A buddy had told me he caught a few decent kokanee this year. Drug a variety of rigs and ended up having a fantastic time la...
By: Logancoug
Posted: 6/1/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Caught 5 rainbows on a black wooly bugger, family members caught some fish on powerbait and spoons.
By: Kastmaster 777
Posted: 6/2/2019
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2019
Hot Spots: 1
I went to badger lake at about 4:30pm to 7:30 pm. We went down to the outlet end of the lake and kept catching cutthroat fingerling so we went deeper and started catching some larger ones. We used spo...
By: cumminsbassguy
Posted: 9/21/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/14/2015
Hot Spots: 0
the first of many badger reports to come. went out to the lake with the ol lady and baby, for some pre work fishing, tossed a trap, crankbait, jig, senko, dropshot, tube. finally figured out how to ge...
By: cumminsbassguy
Posted: 9/21/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/20/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Hey there everybody! took the kids out to badger for the afternoon. trying to get as much time in that lake as possible before it gets killed off. got to the ramp about 130pm and off the water about 6...
By: benrhoward
Posted: 7/10/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Wife and I went to check this lake out,, We fished on shore at the boat launch, Wife bottom fished with power bait and a worm, small fish biting but she didnt catch any thing, I got a small bass with ...
By: callplatinum
Posted: 5/24/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/24/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Blah,
Still a great lake, but not much of a trout lake any more. I knew what I was in for when I saw the parking lot with only a hand full of trucks and trailers.
Just wanted a relaxing no brain...
By: T-Bone
Posted: 5/7/2014
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Normally I would never post a bank fishing report on Badger Lake, but due to the lake's current sad state; I thought the forum deserved an update: ZERO BITES; ZERO FISH; ZERO FISHERMEN on the bank or ...
By: cdcarpeti
Posted: 4/26/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Nohing but tiny trash fish. Everyone we talked with was disappointed.
By: CoyoteCrazy
Posted: 9/9/2013
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/9/2013
Hot Spots: 1
My uncle was staying at his in-laws cabin on Badger, and since I have never fished it before, and have never caught a cutthroat before I figured I would give it a shot since the are killing it soon. ...
By: dluders
Posted: 9/7/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I got on the water at 6:30 AM (1/2 hour before dawn) and headed north from the Public Launch in my canoe. The lake was almost like glass, and there were few fish rising. I used a 3/8-oz. Chrome Kast...
By: swb69
Posted: 8/31/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/31/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I got on the water at about 1:00 pm. Thought I would give it a try before the state poisons it. I fished from one end of the lake to the other. If I saw a spot that looked liked it should hold fish...
By: Snuffy Knows
Posted: 7/4/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Last cast before dark. brownissh jig results ina twenty minute fight.
By: mbg3262
Posted: 6/6/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 3:30 to 6:30PM - Fly Fishing - not one hit! Nothing! The afternoon was warm, about 81 degrees with some wind. Of all the fly fishers that hit the west end of the lake, only one fish was...
By: raptor662
Posted: 4/27/2013
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/27/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Badger around 5:30-6:00am. 4 boat trailers in the lot and a few bank fishers. The bank fishers were landing fish like crazy.
Went down around mid lake trolling a rapala and landed the first fi...
By: DaveF
Posted: 9/28/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My wife Sherry and I made it out to Badger by 6am this morning. She hooked a 12" rainbow with-in 3 minutes out fom the launch. We fished until 2:30pm with both of us catching our limit of rainbow trou...
By: CommanderCrud
Posted: 8/15/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Was rowing on the lake by 4pm. Hooked three 12"(appx.) LM within the first two hours, (near the closer end of the lake) all of which decided to get rid of the bait before i could bring em' up. Was ...
By: Thirteenrockstar
Posted: 7/18/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
First time fishing in over 20 years and didn't catch a damn thing. All I saw down In the water were schools of tiny trout.
By: CommanderCrud
Posted: 7/14/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/14/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got to Badger around 2pm today, started off by jetting across from the boat launch and throwin' some crankbaits. About 20 minutes later I hooked what i believe was a Small mouth. He jumped up out o...
By: hewesfisher
Posted: 6/28/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/27/2012
Hot Spots: 0
First time to ever fish Badger but took a friend who fishes it regularly and knows the lake well. I was concerned with the barometric pressure change just coming off Tuesday's storm, but we went anywa...
By: Superhawk
Posted: 9/3/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Been fishing Badger for Smallmouth the past couple weeks with good success for smaller fish. Fished after work with the family, mostly dropshotting tubes off rocks and dropoffs. Boated about a dozen...
By: stan42flyer
Posted: 7/8/2011
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
This time, I took the 13 year old grandson with me, again the first ever fishing trip for the two of us. We were on the water from 07:30 to 11:00. Weather was quite windy, never took off our sweat...
By: jordman1234
Posted: 6/27/2011
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to badger lake had a great time with my dad caught about 15+ cutthorat and rainbow. nooked them dead on an apex lure with silver spoons, dad used a seps doger chartreuse caught a cople on that fi...