Eagle Lake, ON

[cupper]

I've read quite a bit about this lake and how it is a fabulous musky fishery. I had the opprotunity to fish it last August for the first time. Both my buddy and I were rookies to the lake and had no success. Follows by small fish, but no hook-ups and no follows to make note of. We tried lots of different presentations (speed, slow, plastics, bucktails, jerkbaits, trolling, etc...) with no success. We focused most of our attention to weeds, but I am thinking that rocky main-lake points were the way to go at that time of year... unfortunately time ran out before I could test my theory. It's been bugging me ever since and I was wondering if I could strike up a little discussion about Eagle Lake with any of you who have fished it and had success. What time of year was it and what patterns were working for you? Any good stories from this massive body of water?

Since we can't satisfy our musky-jones by fishing we might as well do our best by talking about it.

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fish!?... nope, just weeds.

[MuskyBrian]

Ha, your asking the WRONG guy here, because I am not a fan of Eagle Lake at all. I frequently visit the Vermilion Bay area, and a few of the locals refer to it as the "Dead Sea" I will say this, your theory is right. Eagle can be tough in general, but trying to find Muskies in the weeds in August is even harder. Your right about the main lake points, but the best spots are the little ones...The pocket of tiny weeds in front of a rock, or the patch of High Grass at the fringe of the Island.Avoiding the temptations of the vast large weedbed is key. A lot of spots on Eagle you cant see on a map but rather with your own eyes while you are cruising around.

Eagle is a fantastic TROPHY musky fishery, but as for numbers it is not. If you would have driven up the road from Eagle about 10 minutes to some of the other lakes, you would never want to fish Eagle again. I know on a few of the lakes I frequent Andy Meyers Lodge brings multiple boats out there a day,which tells me a lot of his clients are struggling on actually Eagle Lake. But that's just my 2 cents, I only go out there in late fall in hopes of giant 50+ inch fish, besides that there's far better water in Canada

[cupper]

Thanks for your insight Brian. What are some of your favorite bodies of water in that area and places to stay? I know you've mentioned Lac Suel, Wabigoon, and Crow Lake in other posts.

[MuskyBrian]

Right by Eagle Lake you have Canyon Lake (it doesnt get much better then that), The Indian chain of Lakes, The Cliff Lake Lake System up on Red lake Road, Lake Of the Woods to name a few are my favorites, any of these Lakes put Eagle to Shame from my experiences, unless you are searching for that one monster fish of a lifetime!