I have fished eagle lake ca. several times when I lived down there. The eagle lake trout get big. Not only is the average 5 to 8 lbs but these fish have shoulders. They hit hard and fast and are know for going air born. eagle lake is very alkine and mostly very clear. the eagle lake fish can be taken on flys trolled just below the surface. I use my dowm riggers at 3 feet.yes thats three feet. I will troll a fly 200 to 300 ft behind the boat with no weigth or dodger but just clipped in the downrigger at three feet. the north end of the lake is mostly 10 to 15ft deep and very clear so this works great.
as far as goldens go I have to ask why are they being planted. they only do good at very high elevation lakes in the serrias and are protected in most cases. be carefully they are not beening planted in order to impost resrictions on these waters. The same thing is going on in the trucke river near reno. They are trying to reintrudes the cutthout trout that have been replaced with the rainbow 100 yres ago. the cuts grow slower then the the rainbows and they plan to pass a bunch of restrictions to allow the fish to have time to grow. what they are doing is removing a great rainbow and brown trout fishery in order to put in a "native " that will only allow a c & c fishing river its a shame.