Lake Anna Va.

[Nitrofreak]

Update, found very little as far as reports go for her on the public side, mid lake temps are 39.7 to 41.4, partially stained, lower lake temps, 41.4 to 47.9 and clear, scanned a bunch of structure from Sturgeon creek down to Valentine, mid lake included Pigeon Creek, Marshall, Contrary, most of all I scanned was only primary to secondary points, fish were suspended and only found above the splits, didn't venture into the coves and basically stayed near any vertical structure that I could find.

I feel as if I would have ventured further back into these major arms I would have located some fish, saw lots of bait in a stacked position, no fish on any of the breaks or located relating to bottom structure where I was, lots of activity however in the old river arm of Anna River, water temps in the arm near the splits and condition at the end of the day were 41.2 and partly stained, if your going to Anna you may want to check out further beyond the splits or investigate areas deeper than secondary points.

hope that helps. 

Good luck and be safe !!

[Sam]

Nitro, did you hit the rip rap by the Route 208 bridge?

What about the marina across the lake from High Point Marina?

 

[Nitrofreak]

46 minutes ago, Sam said:

Nitro, did you hit the rip rap by the Route 208 bridge?

What about the marina across the lake from High Point Marina?

 

I did Sam, I really didn't fish at all however, my sole intention was to look at and understand what my sonar was sending back, to scan primary and secondary points and to understand why fish were there or not there, I scanned Mitchell's creek which included the 208 rip rap, most of what I had seen were still in the creek channels suspended above it out in the middle of the lake, those were stripers, it wasn't until I went up into Anna arm that I started to see fish relating to structure on the bottom, scattered but a few, I scanned that first point on the left along the old river channel as you make your way back into the arm and found some activity in the middle of the water column along with some scattered bait clusters, I learned more than I thought I would but didn't expect to find zero fish in the lower sections of the lake, I didn't cover it all down there but I covered a lot.

[Sam]

The fish are still in the areas and would expect them to be deep and holding on structure and drop offs.

Interesting you did not find any in the lower sections of the lake. I think they were there, either out farther or taking advantage of any warmer water along the bank.

I plan to do the same thing you did with your sonar this year to try to learn it better.

Good report for those of us who fish One Fish Anna. Thanks.

 

[Nitrofreak]

1 hour ago, Sam said:

The fish are still in the areas and would expect them to be deep and holding on structure and drop offs.

Interesting you did not find any in the lower sections of the lake. I think they were there, either out farther or taking advantage of any warmer water along the bank.

I plan to do the same thing you did with your sonar this year to try to learn it better.

Good report for those of us who fish One Fish Anna. Thanks.

 

Keep in mind that I focused on the points and not the channels and deeper flats out from them, could very well be further out beyond those primary and secondary points, reports (word of mouth) says they are shallow, like fishing really shallow, I didn't venture back into any shallows, again, I am looking to learn as much as I can, I wasn't there to fish, but I did learn a bunch

I probably marked at least 200 spots for later use