Anna report 5/3, 15 fish total for the shortened day.
CARP ARE EVERYWHERE !!!! UGH !!!
Got to my first spot at 6:30am, water temps mid lake 67.8-68.4 fished mid lake most of the morning because it was simply working well, most if not all fish are done with the spawn, didn't see any shallow cruisers at all, the first 2 areas I fished I started shallow and worked my way out, noting fish depth and location, weather was heavy overcast with periods of rain until roughly around 10:45.
Most productive pattern for larger bass was pitching to docks, ( I know, go figure right ) docks seem to have to have deep water fronts, the boat was in at least 19 feet of water, fish came from about 15-17 feet on a Larry Nixon designed Havoc bottom hopper worm, yeilded a 7.2, 4.9 and a 3.11.
Headed to the splits to fish one of the stump fields hoping for a BIG'UN, rigged a 10.5 Zoom ribbon tail worm on a T-Rig as well as a C-Rig, got loads of bites but no hook-ups, downsized and went back to the bottom hopper and picked up all but one of the rest of my fish for the day, 11 fish between 1.2-2.6 and then the sun came out and just like that, it was hard to get a bite, like a light switch, headed up the Anna river arm, seen some more nice ones but just couldn't get even a sniff, water condition up in the arm are partly stained, temp was 69.7 looked pretty much like it does in the summer but a little clearer, skipped a few docks with a Zoom super fluke and missed a nice one pitched a few deeper ones and not even a bite, fished a lot of the grass, especially areas with rock, those were the areas I could see the fish.
Headed up to Pumunkey/Terry Run areas, water condition up there was the same as Anna River Arm, temps were warmer with 71.1, good, abundant schools of bait, didn't get to stay up there too long because storms were in the area, did manage my last fish of the day up there however, found the most active area was where both areas split, just up the inside of the Pumunkey side as well as just up inside of Terry's Run, it seemed the rocky areas were the most productive, several areas held bass but bites were coming off of rock piles, most likely crappie bites is what I assume.
Also caught one turtle, I didn't get a photo of how big it was but I did manage a snap of what he did to my Gama 4/0 heavy wire weighted hook !
Sorry about the photos, I'm just not a selfie taker, I didn't get pics of all my fish today, as you can see by my hair, I just didn't want to risk getting my phone wet.