Name: ChickLake (as reported from Conway's River Rat G.S.)
Email: bill@chicklaketackle.com
Date: 02/2706
Time: evening
Chickahominy Lake
sunny, breezy and cool in the low 40's
slight chop clear
Upper Lake and Main Lake
Crappie,White Perch, Pickerel
Small Blade Baits and Jigs, Live Bait rigs and minnows
8-10' in 20' of Water
see below for written report
Capt. Art Conway of Conway's River Rat Guide Service (804-746-2475) reported that Chickahominy Lake water temperatures last week were still in the low to mid 40's. Crappies with a few white perch and an occasional bass and pickerel were still around bait schools in some of the deep holes in the upper lake and a few of the holes in the lower lake. Crappies were near the bottom in some holes and suspended at 8 to 10 feet in 20 feet of water in other holes. Live minnows fished on three-way rigs near the bottom or at the depth of suspended fish caught crappies, white perch, and pickerel. Blade baits like Riverside Rippers and jigging spoons fished with short lifts near the bottom took a few crappies and perch along with some nice pickerel. The larger crappies were less abundant in the deep holes and may be starting to migrate toward spawning areas up the creeks. Some nice pickerel have been taken recently in the larger creeks. Fishing with Capt. Conway, Hollis Pruitt had 15 crappies from 9 to 12 inches and a 23 inch pickerel.
Name: Mike
Email:
Date: 2/25/06
Time: 9-1pm
Mattaponi River
Mild - 58 degrees & windy
clear
1-2 miles downstream of Aylett
1 ring perch
Silver Buddy (gold)
12-25 feet
Tried deep hole jigging for the ring perch on the sharp turns in the river. Marked plenty of fish on the depth finder, just couldn't get them to hit. The one perch I did catch was snagged and small. Saw some guys catching them on minnows. Very, very windy. One gust I experienced had to go 35mph.
Name: Wayne P.
Email: purdum43@aol.com
Date: 02/25/06
Time: 12:00-4:30
Rivanna Reservoir-Charlottesville
Partly Cloudy 55 degrees
slight stain 44 degrees
lower end of lake
14 bass-largest 5-11
Gold 1/4 oz. Silver Buddy
10'-30'
Long casts and hopped along bottom
Located fish with electronics, backed off and worked lure through area.
Name: Andy (stratos976)
Email:
Date: 02/12/06
Time: 12pm-2pm
Lake Anna(hot side)
cold and windy
clear
millpond creek area
1 Lmb 2.6lbs
silver buddy
10-20ft
jigging dround rip-rap, slow-rolling it in same areas
My brother repowered & put console steer in his jon boat, we had to test run it, too cold to be running around so we fished for a little while. Didn't turn out too bad.
Name: Bill
Email: BigFishAddict@aol.com
Date: 02/05/20
Time: 3pm-4pm
An office park lake at Waterford near Brandermill
Cold and Windy
8 Sunfish and 2 yellow ring perch.
Nightcrawler pieces
2'-3'
worm and bobber.
My girlfriend had to go to her new office for an hour today. Decided to tag along since she said there was a lake there. If the fishing is this good on a day like today, cant wait for Spring/Summer. Ive never fished for or caught a yellow ring perch before. Actually never even seen one before today.
Name: Mike
Email:
Date: 2/6/06
Time: 8am
Mattaponi @ Walkerton
Windy...COLD!
visibility 2, maybe 3 feet
Docks & pilings at Walkerton ramps (fished from shore)
ZERO...zip...nothin
4" worm....blue naturally
3-6 feet
SLOW because I had to keep putting my hands in my pocket since they were freezing
Man it was cold this morning. I didn't feel like going through the whole process of loading up the boat and launching so I just rode down to Walkerton to fish around the piers and dock pilings. It was a very high tide and I couldn't cross over the old bridge span since the little bridge connecting that island to the shore had about a foot of water at the base of the steps. Trust me I didn't want to get my feet wet this morning. Didn't catch anything and didn't fish too long. It was way too cold. Ended up just riding around King & Queen, King William, Hanover, & New Kent looking for places to fish...didn't see anything.
Name: Rich k, and Jeff
Email:
Date: 2/4/06
Time: 7:00-12:00
Lower James River
Overcast/rain 58 deg
Outgoing tide muddy and high 48-50 deg
Comstock
18 LMB total 10 for Jeff and 8 for me including a 4.82
Creatures, ring worms
2-12'
Slow
Name: Wayne P.
Email: purdum43@aol.com
Date: 02/03/06
Time: 11:00-4:30
Green Mountain Lake-Private
Sunny 60, Wind 10mph
Dingy 44.5-47.2 degrees
Mid Lake
23 Bass and 9 Crappie, largest bass 7 lbs. 2 oz.
Gold color 1/4 oz. Silver Buddy
9'-12'
Made long casts and hopped along the bottom
I figured with the forecast for normal weather for awhile, I had better take advantage of the nice weather while I can.
Name: Rich K
Email:
Date: 2/2/06
Time: 3:30 - 5:30
Lower James River
Light wind, Slightly O'Cast, 63 deg
incoming tide 48 deg
Appomatox-Comstock
11 LMB
T-Rigged Creatures
2-12'
Slow, dragging the rocky bottom areas
6 keepers best around two lbs, 5 dinks 6-10". Extremely light bite, and very spooky fish.