Eagle Lake Musky trip

[MarkH024]

Hey BR, been a while since posting here. Had a recent trip up to Canada. Results were so-so.  Weather was not very cooperative with rain, high winds, and unseasonably cooler.  The water was super murky. This is my 4th visit to Eagle and probably worst trip overall in terms of fishing both big fish and quantity.  But anytime fishing is a great time.  Here is a few of the musky highlights. Enjoy!

 

 

[Bluebasser86]

The one time that I've been to Canada, we went to Eagle Lake. I was only 13 then. We didn't catch any muskie, but neither my dad or I had ever fished for them. My dad is a walleye guy, but we didn't catch many of those either. Mostly we caught pike while we were trying to fish for everything else, and a lot of perch while walleye fishing. Crazy how dirty the water was though. 

[MarkH024]

Did you stay up in the north end of the main lake?  I stay mid lake and fish there and South. Better for musky numbers down that way.  We usually move A LOT of fish. The one in my avatar was 46.5" from 2 years ago and that same trip my partner got a 50". The guys I go with have been going for over a decade and have had several trips with 50"+ fish.  It's a premier spot for musky no doubt, just didn't have the right hand of cards this time.

 

If you ever go back, PM me, and I'll put you on some spots Clayton.

[Bluebasser86]

We stayed at Andy Meyer's Lodge. They had some replicas of giants in the lodge. I think the biggest was a 56" fish? I think we're going to try to go to Canada again next year but probably do LOTW this time since it has a better walleye population to keep my dad happy. Obviously a terrific muskie and smallmouth lake as well. 

[slonezp]

Looks like the second one scared the crap out of you when it hit. Nice of you to let the guy in front catch one. I haven't been to Eagle Lake since the mid 80's, probably before you were born. We used to stay at Temple Bay Lodge. 

That's me with my dad and grandfather.

[RoLo]

Awesome!   

 

Roger

[Further North]

On 7/3/2017 at 11:38 AM, Bluebasser86 said:

We stayed at Andy Meyer's Lodge. They had some replicas of giants in the lodge. I think the biggest was a 56" fish? I think we're going to try to go to Canada again next year but probably do LOTW this time since it has a better walleye population to keep my dad happy. Obviously a terrific muskie and smallmouth lake as well. 

Plenty of muskies in Lake of the Woods.

 

Whitefish Bay and Sabaskong Bay are two places to start, there's been a 50" plus fish caught in Whitefish Bay every time I've been up there, the last 4 years...

 

Headed up next Saturday for a week with a bunch of dedicated musky guys, hope we see a lot of fish.

[Willy006]

On 7/3/2017 at 10:48 AM, MarkH024 said:

Did you stay up in the north end of the main lake?  I stay mid lake and fish there and South. Better for musky numbers down that way.  We usually move A LOT of fish. The one in my avatar was 46.5" from 2 years ago and that same trip my partner got a 50". The guys I go with have been going for over a decade and have had several trips with 50"+ fish.  It's a premier spot for musky no doubt, just didn't have the right hand of cards this time.

 

If you ever go back, PM me, and I'll put you on some spots Clayton.

Hello Mark,

saw your post here and I am trying to track you down. Eagle Lake musky fisherman here who is looking for some good insight on the lake. Your YouTube videos there with Rick and the 50" is awesome. You seem to know your stuff up there. If you've got some time, please shoot me an email at wswita@gmail.com and lets chat. I'm in need of some good/better musky spots on the lake

Thanks

-Will

[Ogandrews]

On 4/9/2020 at 6:46 PM, Willy006 said:

Hello Mark,

saw your post here and I am trying to track you down. Eagle Lake musky fisherman here who is looking for some good insight on the lake. Your YouTube videos there with Rick and the 50" is awesome. You seem to know your stuff up there. If you've got some time, please shoot me an email at wswita@gmail.com and lets chat. I'm in need of some good/better musky spots on the lake

Thanks

-Will

I’m not the guy your trying to reach but I am a very avid musky fisherman. I haven’t fished eagle yet but the guy that taught he most of what I know goes every year. Eagle lake musky, along with a lot of lakes with both musky and lake trout, do a lot of feeding in deep water. Back in the day Larry Ramsel did a tracking study and found that the majority of the 50”+ fish had 2 different habitats that were usually close to each other. They would have a deep water area where they could drop into 40 or so fow and feed on cisco and whitefish. They would be in this water when they were actively feeding. They would then go into quite shallow warm water to recover and digest. One of the results of the study was that the fish would digest in the much warmer water to speed their metabolism up and in part their digestion. They found that while these shallow water fish were easy to find and would once in awhile follow a bait, they would practically never eat a bait. It is really too bad that they don’t allow night fishing on eagle as that would be your best chance of hooking into a world record class fish. If you haven’t already booked a trip at eagle I would recommend looking into Rowan lake to the south. It is a little bit smaller ( still a big lake) than eagle but has just as good if not better fish of a lifetime potential and allows night fishing. It also doesn’t get fished as much as eagle which is a great thing for big fish.