Who are We?
New email address valateaglelake@yahoo.com
Mobile email eaglelakefishing@yahoo.com

DOT NET NOTE: For those of you who have known me for many years, yes, I have renewed my California Guide License. My guiding is limited but feel free to contact me and discuss things. My specialty is teaching you how to get the most from your own equipment and suggestions for and/or setting up your rods. I do not advertise and I am not in competition with the other guides; however I am licensed and bonded and I do spend as much time on the water as possible. If you have questions about guides (all use different techniques) feel free to ask us.  Be sure to see my detailed “Tips and Tricks” page that will answer most all of the “frequently asked questions”. Email valateaglelake@yahoo.com or call 530-249-1430 to discuss the matter.

We have now added mobile email  as well as TEXTING for our viewers.  Our viewers and visitors no longer need to depend on provided internet connections.  Unfortunately, there are businesses who don't like our website and block it on their free internet access and wifi networks thus censoring what our viewers (and their customers) can see when they are here.  Blocking our site from their networks is not illegal, just unethical.  If you can not view our site, ask  your provider WHY, 

NOTICE: You will NOT find me hustling for your business in the local bars, restaurants, stores or RV parks as you may many other guides. I believe that “hustling” is un-ethical behavior for a guide and fortunately I have higher standards than that. I was taught to guide the old fashioned way and my teacher was and is the best (J Fair). Our teaching style and commitment to it is becoming a lost art. But, I don’t plan on changing a thing.  No other guides have permission to speak for us or on our behlaf.  If you have any questions, please contact us personally.  We will let you know when we do a seminar just note that we are not trying to sell you a fisihng trip now or in the future.  We teach.

We do not sell ourselves as scientists, nor do we know “everything” scientifically about Eagle Lake…However, our website has a lot of scientific information from the government studies contained within the archeaology documentation available on eaglelakefishing.info. But, we do know a whole lot about catching Eagle Lake trout in their native waters and native feeds! We have many seasons under our belts, countless thousands of hours on the lake, caught many thousands of Eagle Lake trout and have seen this lake through many different phases and circumstances in which variables constantly change. Adapting to those changes is my specialty.

We also take great pride in our victorious battles against governmental pollution because we DARE TO CARE. What we don’t care about is the financial security of the polluters, their social ranking or whether or not they like us. Eagle Lake and protecting her for the future is our main concern. Doing the right thing in Lassen County comes with a price, if we worried about that, nothing would get accomplished.  1) The removal of the creosote barriers from the immediate watershed that were dumped purposely by LNF to leach out creosote for three years before they were to be burned.  2) No longer are people allowed to pour dishwater or wash their hands at the drinking water faucets where the drainage was not into the sewage disposal system...until 2008....it drained into the creek channel and was called "intermittent springs".  As of 2010 the intermittent flows of Merrill Creek were nice and clear....better than in the last two decades...maybe the massive amount of "iron algae" and iron bacteria were not "natural" after all.  3) LNF sewer ponds would be the same for years to come unless we began taking photos of the rotten pond liners with rocks puncturing the liner from below.  Had we not been correct in our observations, these things would not have been addressed.  Why the good old boys wanted to pollute the main source of their income is beyond me.