All Others for August 2004


Respondent Name: = Russell Holmes
Respondent Email Address: = rholmes910@aol.com
Place Fished: = Nottaway Lake
Date Fished: = 8/28/04
Time Fished: = 7 - 3:30
Weather Conditions: = Foggy - Sunny
Water Conditions: = clear  2-3' visibility
Water Temp.: = 84
Locations Fished: = Shore line (grass & wood) all away around
Types of fish caught and sizes: = 18 bass (4 were about 1.75 pounds)
1 catfish (2.5 pounds)
1 chain (2.5 pounds)
1 bream (10")
Types of lures/bait: = Senko & Big O
Method/Presentation: = The senkos were fished texas-rig and wacky style and the Big O was fished stop & go retrive
Depths fished: = 1 - 4 feet


Respondent Name: = Jeffrey Banko
Respondent Email Address: = jkbanko@comcast.net
Place Fished: = Nottoway Lake
Date Fished: = 8/6
Time Fished: = 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Weather Conditions: = Cloudy, drizzle, windy
Water Conditions: = Stained 2-3 foot visible
Water Temp.: = 84
Locations Fished: = Up the main lake left bank.
Types of fish caught and sizes: = 4 largemouth, 10 Bream
Types of lures/bait: = All largemouth caught on trick worms, Bream caught on Rooster Tail Spinner
Method/Presentation: = Trick Worm fished on weedless wacky rig.  Rooster tail I would cast let drop for a ten count then slowly retrieve.
Depths fished: = 10-20 feet

Additional Comments: = Pretty tough day. Only largemouth bite could seem to put together was on the wacky rigged
Trick worm and the wind made this real tough to fish.  Did manage to catch some nice Bream though.  Saw them schooling up in the middle of the lake and got them to hit the Rooster tail.


Respondent Name: = Jeffrey Banko
Respondent Email Address: = jkbanko@comcast.net
Place Fished: = Nottoway Lake
Date Fished: = 8/1/04
Time Fished: = 6:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Weather Conditions: = Slight cloud cover, hot...
Water Conditions: = 2-3 foot visibility,
Water Temp.: = 85
Locations Fished: = Stumps fields across to the left of the launch and then southern end of the lake.
Types of fish caught and sizes: = 8 largemouth, 1 pound ave.
Types of lures/bait: = 1 caught on curly tail grub, 3 on wacky rigged Chartreuse finesse worm, 2 caught on Shad Husky Jerk, 2 caught on Zoom Salamander Red Shad.
Method/Presentation: = Slow rolled the grub, pitched the wacky rigged worm to stumps and trees in 8 - 10 foot of water, Husky Jerk was used by jerking twice then reeling, and repeating, Salamander was texas rigged.
Depths fished: = 8 - 16 feet

Additional Comments: = Pretty slow day.  Firend and I fished hard and except for two half hour periods really had no hits.  All fish were caught from 7:00 to 7:30 a.m left side of launch and them from 11:00 to 11:30 southern end.

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