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For those of you who may be wondering who operates this website. Let me introduce myself first. My name is Valerie (Val) Aubrey and I am a Chico, California native. My family has fished this lake since the mid 1940’s. I was dragged up here by my parents Joe and Jeanne Williams since infancy. We fished many different methods and never had a problem catching our limits of large trout.
I grew up fishing Eagle Lake in particular and have been doing so for the last 46 years. I’m told that I could reel in a fish before I could walk, but you know how parents talk about their kids. I take pride in knowing the lake and like to share my knowledge in hopes of teaching people to respect the area and what effort it takes to maintain the fishery. You wouldn’t believe how some folks treat this area when they come up on a vacation. We literally pick up 3 to 4 garbage bags full of litter including beer cans, off the shoreline on any given year. We hope those folks stay away.
My roots go slightly deeper than that though, my uncle, John Williams paved both Eagle and Merrill Campground originally and also repaired banking issues that came up after the first paving of County Rd. A-1 (from Susanville). After that we had nice campgrounds to stay in.
The lake was open to fishing year round during those years. It didn’t matter that it was winter, we just wore more clothes. We spent nearly every weekend and hunting season at the lake. Both my sister and myself were good students and thought it was great to get out of a few days of school during hunting season. We were very fortunate to have grown up fishing and hunting here at the lake. We feel that we had the best years of Eagle Lake in the days when it wasn’t so well known.
In the late 1980’s my husband Randy Aubrey (a Marysville, Ca. Native and Founder of Project Eagle Lake (rainbow) Trout) and I began guiding fishing trips while working with my good friend J. Fair (as his employee). In 1991 we moved to Spalding permanently and started our own guide service called Golden Bear Guide Service, named after our two golden retrievers Bear and Goldie. We retired from guiding in 1997 due to medical reasons, but we can still spend a little time on the pond.
After being disgusted with old fishing reports from other fishing publications we decided to do one better and offer a place where Eagle Lake anglers could access current, accurate fishing information anytime of the day or night...24/7. As everyone that has ever fished this lake knows, it isn’t easy to catch your first Eagle Lake Trout...on Eagle Lake that is. We update the fishing report as often as we can, minimally 4 to 5 days a week but we need to have some time off too.
Little did we know that we would be popular. We opened our site up in spring of 2004 and hope you enjoy and learn from what you see and read. All of our copyrighted information is free on this site. If you use it, please say where it came from.
We do our best to help you be able to catch fish and make sure you have all the right tackle and set-ups to do so. Thank you for you continued support. If you are interested in being one of our Proud Sponsors please email val@localnews1.net
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