Eagle

[EYEHUNTER10]

Can you make it out to the center of Eagle lake yet, I have a smaller 4x4 truck. Dont know what kinda inmpact yesterdays snow had out their either, and help much appreciated!

[eyewarrior]

saw several trucks out there today

[Wallsniffer]

You can drive anywhere on the lake....most of the cricks in the area are still running in so I would stay away from them, but there are trucks driving all around eagle.

[EYEHUNTER10]

thx guys I'll prob try it tomorow night, i wonder if i should try at 17 ft or 4o ft+

[jwenzel]

eagle lake.

[J'sBait&Sport]

Nice ....how big was it.

J.

[jaymevb]

i'd be careful around the northeast side. it had pockets of water in the ice quite far from the crick still.

[EYEHUNTER10]

I tried in 25 ft got 4 small eyes, was kinda slow.

[gwiff100]

any hint on those sizes? By the looks if i had to guess would be that we have some 12" and a nice 24"???

anyone in favor for a statewide slot limit??

[jake125]

Personally I would have thrown all those fish back except maybe 2.... The top fish and the last one before the big guy, they looks closer to 14-15. But its not my decision, way to find a couple bigger fish tho

[tencountff]

any hint on those sizes? By the looks if i had to guess would be that we have some 12" and a nice 24"???

anyone in favor for a statewide slot limit??

+1

[jwenzel]

big one was all of 23in and the smallest was 13

[EYEHUNTER10]

14" would be big for eagle ppl all fall kept 11-13 inchers in the boats frankly 13-15" walleyes are perfect for the pan I guess but i haven't manged a 15" all fall out their or winter now. next year should be great! I did get a 27" out of 42 feet of water last year, took a long time too get it to swim back down the hole

[Wallsniffer]

The state did implement the rule a couple of years ago that an angler can only keep 1 walleye over 20" (a rule that is probably broken quite often). And to be honest, keeping 11-13" walleyes is only going to harm a lakes Walleye population if the fish don't spawn in the lake. A slot limit isn't going to protect those small walleyes either, only the larger ones...which means more small ones will be kept!

I love the angler that criticizes one person's fish because they are a whopping 1" smaller than the minimum length for a fish that they would keep! If you were a true sportsman you would let them all go!

Most of the time when you pull a walleye out of 42' of water it is as good as dead as well. Even if the fish did swim away the probability of it living is not good.

[EYEHUNTER10]

yep I usually let all of them go, unless I'm starving, pretty poor fishing on Eagle got some small eyes just before dark then baby crappies after but man for slow, but guess its that time of the year. I was in 34 fow this time

[jentz]

With the looks of the fish pics it ought a be a decent fishery in a couple years if their not in pans.

[mweb_21]

not sure if eagle has a lot of natural reproduction or not, but that also may impact what anglers keep as well with it being less harmful keeping more smaller fish if there is not much succesful spawning. the dnr website should should have some info on that