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Badger Fishing Reports

Badger
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...
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Badger
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...
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Badger
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, ...
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Badger
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...
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Badger
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 ...
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Badger
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...
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Badger
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...
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Badger
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...
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Badger
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, ...
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Badger
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...
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Badger
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...
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Badger
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 ...
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Badger
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 ...
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Badger
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 ...
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Badger
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...
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Badger
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...
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Badger
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...
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Badger
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...
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Badger
By: Dave, of the BBs of BL
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...
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Badger
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
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Badger
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...
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Badger
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/30/2006
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/30/2006
Hot Spots: 0
The Tradition Will Continue… The last day of fishing season this year for the BBs of BL was another one for the books. We arrived at the launch ramp just before dawn; the skies were clear, the wat...
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Badger
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/24/2006
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/23/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Badger delivers again! We fished from 8am-1pm and limited out on rainbows. We must have hooked 25-30 fish, but between losing them at the boat, releasing small ones or them spitting the hook (several ...
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Badger
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/10/2006
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/10/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Had a FANTASTIC afternoon/evening of fishing on Badger today. It seemed like all summer all I could catch was smallmouth & crappie so it was nice to finally find a lake and conditions ripe for ...
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Badger
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/31/2006
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/27/2006
Hot Spots: 0
A BIRTHDAY TRADITION--- with apologies to Moby Dick I drew a breath of clean Columbia Plateau air as I stood on the shore, gazing at the water as if I could sense the excitement beneath its waves... ...
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