In 1977 Art Wilcox wrote a small publication Fishing the Lassen Country. The publication’s main focus is the area surrounding Lassen Volcanic National Park. Wilcox did make an exception and included Eagle Lake and below are his tips for fishing that lake.
“Eagle Lake is not within the Lassen area, but is near enough to be appropriately included. This beautiful, natural lake, and its big, one of kind specie of trout is about an hours drive from Chester. The turn-off north from 36-44 is three miles west of Susanville. The 12 miles of this road, Highway A-1, are paved but has some 12 percent grades. They do not appear to bother those towing large trailers and boats in and out, so must be of no consequence. Four campgrounds, including the huge 204 space Merrill, are located at the South end of the lake. There is a store and full service marina, accommodating all types of boats. Some people fish by wading out and casting hardware or nitecrawlers. Trolling is far more effective. Nitecrawlers behind attractor blades to be the most popular method of rigging, but all sorts of lures and combinations of terminal gear are used. The fish are large. Three or four will usually. make up the weight limit. Tackle should be considered accordingly. Don’t fool with four pound test line here, unless you are an expert with a fish on light equipment.”
Tim
I’d like to encourage you to take a look at your terminology in this article and take another look at your information. There is no such thing as a “weight limit” for trout. There is just a limit on the number of fish you can keep, per person, which is two. Saying “three or four” will make up the weight limit may cause people to believe you can keep 5 fish like other bodies of water but this is false, eagle lake carries special regulations and you are aloud to keep two fish only, regardless of weight. Also making the claim that trolling is more effective is not always true, a good bank angler can at times out preform any boat fisherman.