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 of the water, basically threw a live crawdad into my canoe(still had a claw under my battery) and wiggled off my hook. That was pretty funny.

The next two hours were filled with LMB ranging from 5" to 8".

Decided to test out some jiggin', I havn't done that before. Found a decent area hooked up a white jig with some corn and dropped her down about 30'. 15 minutes later I hooked my first Cutthroat Trout (see picture), 14" 2 pounds, beautiful fish. She squirted some eggs in the boat before i tried and tried releasing her. She wouldn't swim away so we had to keep her.

After that i decided to hook up my smaller spinner bait and test my luck towards some weeds, I kept getting little nibbles but couldn't stick anything until.. BAM! This 16" 3 1/2 poundish LMB. For sure the best one i've ever caught.

Great day.

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