Any Va Members Fish Lately?

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thanks

[Bigbarge50]

Yeah Quan, I am looking forward to some huntsman action this week too. Brick and you are tearing it up on the res. Sounds like the are working well up the ledges there too.

As for the rowers...... I am no fan of their bullhorn either...... but they fall a very very distant third to the guys on jet skis in Pohick Bay (easily the worst) and the kayak people who paddle right between you and then shore when you are like 15- 20 yards from it. We should be allowed to peg em with a plastic worm or something.

You guys hitting the res after tha rains on friday?

[quanjig]

First tx on Sunday, I have tomorrow off, I have soooo much stuff to do to be ready!! Might fish half day and use the other half to go thru tackle and such. I have a pretty good idea about what I want to do based on my last outing and reports from friends that have also been out during the week. Huntsman on the other hand has been a little disappointing! Only one fish from there this year. I did meet vaparrothead today and we exchanged stories about local spots! I'll let you all know how it goes if I get out tomorrow!

[endless]

Does anyone know if any lilies are coming in yet? I thought I seen some of the bulbs popping up at this pond I fish and might try to buzzbait or spinnerbait them areas tomorrow.

[Nitrofreak]

Endless,

I don't think they are yet, I have planted various lillies and grasses in my gold fish pond, I look at them before I make a lake trip so I know whats going on, the grasses are growing pretty fast, the lillies are just starting to sprout.

[endless]

So you think bass will enter the sprouting area?

[Nitrofreak]

If there is enough cover then maybe, I would concentrate on flats 5 to 15 ft deep heading toward shallower water, I am not familure with the water you are fishing but if I were at Anna this weekend thats what I would be doing.

There are plenty of areas that have grass on the primary points as well as secondary points.

Don't be afraid to get off the banks and fish the deeper water.

[endless]

Where I'm going is about a 90 acre pond and the deepest is 12'. The pond has structure trees on the side of bank and lilies through out. Where the lilies do grow,This brownish grass usually grows within them. Now the pond is pretty clear through out the middle of pond but does have drops from 3' to like 8' or so in spots. I'm thinking of trying cranks out there unless buzzbaits work since it's post to be partly cloudy and 76 degrees. If buzzbaits don't I'll just go to my spinners and chatters. I'm also going to jig the trees. I wouldn't mid trying a spook like lure if topwater is on.

[Nitrofreak]

I would definately fish the drop off's or dips, the jig would be a bruised banana color with a green pumpkin trailer or bama rage tail craw, and spinners would be grey/white or light blue/white with a chartuse trailer fished right off the bottom of even making contact with the bottom, buzz baits would be black if it is overcast.

Thats just me wishing I was fishing though lol.

Good luck and be safe !!!!

[endless]

I don't have any banana color jigs but do have green pumpkin trailers. Most of mine are black and blue and do have 1 green pumpkin but I think that is grass jig so not sure how it will handle trees or wood. Far as spinners and the buzz I got those colors you mentioned.

[Nitrofreak]

It would be worth it to have those colors, next time you go out get a couple, they work well, good luck buddy!!!!

[endless]

Thanks and I hope so!! I will get those colors along with PB&J.What color Cranks you think? Right now I'm rigged with the Bandit200 Tennessee shad But I do have Baby bass

and blue gill I also got other styles of cranks and colors like a sexy shad and green perch, etc.

And topwater frogs would be pointless you think?

[heyitskirby]

Anyone have any thoughts on what this weather is going to do to the spawn?

[Zoff]

Pulled these out of SML today on a KVD 1.5 Squarebill Blackback Chartreuse...

Yeah... they still be a-swimmin in the lake. Smallie went about 5lbs. Didn't weigh the baby striper.

[Wayne P.]

I saw some on deep beds yesterday with my electronics and a lot of bass were in the 3'-5' depths. I caught a bunch of bass Wed and yesterday. The water temp was in the mid 60's in the afternoon.

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I saw some on deep beds yesterday with my electronics and a lot of bass were in the 3'-5' depths. I caught a bunch of bass Wed and yesterday. The water temp was in the mid 60's in the afternoon.

If you don't mind me asking, how deep were the deep beds, and how clear is the water (near where those deep beds were)? Thanks.

[Wayne P.]

Water visibility is about 3"-5" and the bass I saw and caught on beds were in 4'-5' depths. I saw them with Humminbird Side Imaging.

[quanjig]

5-12 on the res yesterday!

[endless]

Today did not go accordingly to plan or even go well. Got up at 6:00 am and when got to Smoots I help out a fellow fisherman there that was with his wife. His trolling motor wouldn't unlocked, so I out my Rem oil(only oil I had) he sprayed it and we finally got it unlocked. Nice couple. Put tools away, jumped in car, backed car down and dropped boat in the water. Went to pull out, dead battery. I've been having problems with this battery ever since I bought it a week ago. Finally got it to start after jumping off one of my boat batteries. Well car started and again went to pull out car is stuck. Just spinning off the gravel rocks they put down. Grrr. No matter what I tried no luck. I just left car on ramp and fish till my buddy came about an hour later. No hits and time to get car out as he pulled up. My car tires was like slicks after I got home so my wife took car to get new tires. What a morning!

[outdoorsman110]

Going out fishing till 8pm with my girl, gonna try a couple lakes and ponds. First stop, the Rappahannock.

[outdoorsman110]

5-12 on the res yesterday!

Go caps! Even though they are losing:(

[outdoorsman110]

Thanks and I hope so!! I will get those colors along with PB&J.What color Cranks you think? Right now I'm rigged with the Bandit200 Tennessee shad But I do have Baby bass

and blue gill I also got other styles of cranks and colors like a sexy shad and green perch, etc.

And topwater frogs would be pointless you think?

When the water is cold, try crawfish cranks that go 8-10 feet, the fish are more aggressive towards the crayfish cranks than the regular fish cranks.

And I wouldn't count out frogs, if there is another cold snap, try going out the morning after the cold snap, the bass go crazy on frogs then.

[Addicted to Smallies]

Hit the local Northern Virginia pond in Reston today and it was a "tale of two ponds." It started off pretty slow with just a couple of small fish, but then it was like someone turned on a light switch, and I had a nice bass on just about every-other cast. Mostly hitting on a spinner-bait (white/red and red) and nothing on soft plastics. They were all about 15 yards off of the bank, just where the water starts to get shallow at about 4 feet. Then, about 30 minutes later, the switch got flipped again and nothing for the next hour, so I packed it in. I noticed the fish are VERY thin in my local pond -- not sure if it's from a problem or just a lack of minnows over the winter.

[endless]

Thanks for the post!! I'm still trying to land something off the spinnerbait.

[deep]

Water visibility is about 3"-5" and the bass I saw and caught on beds were in 4'-5' depths. I saw them with Humminbird Side Imaging.

Thanks.