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I have just returned from my 2015 month-long trip to Eagle Lake. Each year, the experience gets deeper and better for me. Frankly, the musky fishing was generally tough from mid-August to...

I spent the four weeks from August 9th to September 5th on Eagle Lake this year, fishing most days from dawn until dark. It was a tremendous privilege to be out there all that time and I experienced...

John,
I got up to AML for some of the last of the fall fishing last week. It was just me and Herbie at camp, with Julian bringing us food in the mornings and chatting evenings when he could make it...

Cory,
It was really good to see you, too. Congratulations to you for the big one in the heavy blow off Windigo and to Andy! I had a feeling First Island was going to give up a good one sometime...

Again this year I had the privilege of fishing for three weeks. I should start by saying that Eagle Lake is in great shape: the water level is good; weedbeds are quirky, with some old standbys almost...

Herbie,
With a report like that I'm not at all sad that I can finally say, "See you this coming weekend." Can't wait.
Bill

Herbie,
I want to say that this is an emotional event for a lot of us, but I also think it is a great thing for you and for AML. Everybody tells me that Julian is a great guy, whom I look forward to...

Herbie,
Yikes! Brave souls out on the lake in that weather. The only thing that scares me is the thought that I'd be out there trying it, too, if I was there. Hope the cooling off is what the fish...

I am writing to try to continue the glow from my recent three week trip to AML. The lake, the fish, and the folks at AML served up everything I was hoping for. I saw the kinds of wonders that make a...

Bruce,
I have fished flies for muskies and spent quite a bit of time fishing with a partner who was flyfishing exclusively, and I have a few thoughts. First, and if you are the only fisherman in the...

Chuck,
I recently came on an old photo that brought back a lot of memories. The picture itself isn't much...it's a low 40s muskie in the water somehow hooked to the outside of a net...but it was the...

Chuck,
I will arrive on August 18 and stay three weeks. Brother Tom will join me from the 23rd through the 29th. It will be really good to see you and Dan there.
Bill

Dan and Chuck,
My trip is finally getting close enough that I can at last begin to let myself get excited about getting to Eagle Lake and seeing you guys and the other special people there. I got a...

Anybody who has fished with me knows that I suffer from a bad case of big-fish-disease, so I have to fess up to the fact that I hope to have multiple shots at big fish, including some real beasts....

Dan,
When I said that my understanding of the lake increased I guess I had several kinds of things in mind. First was simply getting the direct experience of being out on the lake alone when there...

Somehow I could not face the long, dark winter without a little more fishing, so I pestered Herbie until he let me come up again to camp out with the deer hunters and fish the first few days of...

Don,
You are totally correct: Ron Barefield is a first class guy all the way and a great all around fisherman. I was there the day he first showed up at AML a few years ago and he went out with...

Dan and Chuck, I will keep in touch about next year's plans, and Tom, I am going to drag you up to the lake again. As to my fishing, absolutely every time I begin to think that I am getting some...

Cory, it was really nice to share stories and obeservations and ideas with an exceptional fisherman like you and with the rest of the Muskies Inc. group. That sharing is one of the real benefits of...

Again this year I had the great good luck to fish out of AML from August 20th through September 9th. In an uncertain world, I treasure every moment of it, and, in case you are wondering, it doesn't...

Tom,
Wishing you good luck on your early season trip to Eagle Lake! I hope you also plan to be up there in late August/early September so we can share some fishing. I have a feeling that you are...

Herbie,
I was trying to be conservative. Even I have seen bigger than that and I shudder to think of the ones you've seen. One of us has to get lucky one of these times.
Bill

Last season I wrongly predicted that somebody at AML in 2010 was going to catch one of the huge muskies that haunt our dreams. We caught many big, big ones (check out the AML photo page and compare...

I guess May 10th at 3:00 PM.

Bill Hedden

Herbie,
The last day I was up at Eagle in October Scott Jaeger caught a huge and beautiful tiger muskie. I'd love to see a photo of that fish again if you can post one.
Thanks and Happy Holidays to...