The turnout was back up a little bit this Wednesday compared to last. We had 15 teams show up to fish Eagle Lake just north of Willmar. The lake has a lot of fish in the 3-5 lb range so it's pretty popular. The only problem is that there is pretty much 1 way to catch them and thats docks and trees. When you get 15 boats on a small lake all doing the same thing it gets beat up really quick but there are still fish to be caught. There was 1 monster bag but overall the weights were down quite a bit from the past. Usually at least half the field or more will weigh 9+ lbs for their 3, but last night only 3 teams topped that mark. 1st place was an astounding 13.57 lbs, 2nd was 9.90 lbs, and 3rd was my dad and I with 9.62 lbs. The big fish for the night was 4.87 lbs.
On this lake boat draw can be a pretty big deal but we unfortunately had a pretty bad number to start. I knew being that far back there was no way we could get to the docks I wanted to start on. Sure enough the first 5 or 6 boats all headed to that stretch so we went to our 2nd favorite stretch of docks. It was super shallow and weedy and just didn't look great and getting through all the weeds was really tough but I did manage to get our best fish of the night that was close to 4 lbs. After that we went across the lake to another stretch of docks that hadn't been hit yet and filled out our limit with small fish. At that point every dock in the lake had been fished so it was time to just buckle down and fish behind people. The fishing wasn't great but we managed to upgrade every once in awhile. We probably ended up catching about 8 fish for the night. All of our bites came on Strike King Bleeding Bait tubes skipped under the docks and trees.
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