Edward Walden Eagle Lake Fish

[Bill Hedden]

In his Compendium of Muskie Angling History (Volume 1), Larry Ramsell discusses the record muskies that have come out of Eagle Lake. John Coleman's 60.8 pounder in 1939 came out of the big lake somewhere out of Eagle River and a year later Edward Walden caught a 61 pound 9 ouncer fishing out of our own Andy Myers Lodge in Vermilion Bay. Does anybody know where these fish were caught? No doubt Walden's fish, at least, came out of a spot we all fish regularly. For the sake of the history of our sport it would be fun to be able to make a bow to the long time Canadian record when casting to that spot.