Any Va Members Fish Lately?

[bigbasshunter]

Been fishing outta Occoquan River right off the Potomac. The action has been unbelievable until the coldfront late-night. Did manage a few males today all who had bloody mouths. A few other fish that have been boated include 2 nice perch, 2 baby striped bass and a 15lb snakehead. I did hook into a monster female that snapped my line at the boat. Felt like a log, put up an amazing fight. Her mouth was the closest to a bucket mouth I have ever seen. I would guess she was easily in the double digits. I have and will be on the hunt for her again.

[Rocky1965]

Bright and early this mornin(6:35am) in Beautiful Chantilly, landed her on a Crankbait...startin my day off right before I head out to work!

[MikeW]

i fished for ~4-5 hours on occoquan friday afternoon out of fountainhead and got owned. very frustrating day. had a few bites from small bass on senkos wacky rigged, but could not figure out what the larger ones were biting on. i went upstream past the dam and pretty much worked the whole north shoreline starting at the huge bend. i tried some suspending jerkbaits too and texas rigged worms(from the advice of a guy who had been fishing out earlier) without the weight to no luck.

[justin apfel]

Frog bite is on big time in Virginia Beach right now. Averaging around 10 hits each time I go out. Other than that, fish are keeping close to cover. I fished the Newport News reservoir lately and the fish I caught were on Missle Bait's D Bomb. I was hitting them off trees and got most hits on the initial drop.

[Aluma-Bass]

Our club fished Diascund, my first time there! Big lake for electric only! We finished 2nd with just under 10lbs, 1st had 12lbs. We didn't catch much in the morning till i realized the fish were still on beds, then it was on! 4 outta 5 keepers came off beds! It was a fun day! Biggest fish of the tourney weighed was about 4.5lbs by another team.

[quanjig]

Mike W, the fish on the res are in full lovin' mode!! you need to look in the creeks and guts and look for the beds. I was out Saturday and must have seen 30 beds in all areas. Some had fish locked on, others were "in the act!" If you find vacant beds or beds with only the male, be assured the girls are lurking nearby. It is a tricky time out there right now, I've never done very well with spawners but you can catch them, they just have to be in the right mode, not mood! You should be able to tell if the bedders will bite within the first few minutes you locate and cast to them. Look for aggressive behavior toward your bait, are they chasing away small blugill, will they nose down and eyeball your offering?? If this is the case, it's just a matter of finding the trigger, bait, retrieve, wait time! It's all a brilliantly devised puzzle laid out by mother nature with an awesome backdrop of springtime!

[bigbasshunter]

Excellent tips as always quanjig

[MikeW]

Thanks for the tips! The fish that I could see weren't being very aggressive to what I was throwing at them, yet not more than a few feet away I saw one large bass go completely vertical almost a foot out of the water, as well as another bass come up and swallow an injured perch. quite the sight.

Having done some more research on bass beds and what to look for as well, hopefully I can get back out there before they start moving back to the deeper water.

[quanjig]

You will have plenty of opportunities with the full moon and another wave of spawners. Water came back up to full pool with the rain this week, the fish you did find on beds may be a little more difficult to spot but they are still there and the water didn't get very dirty. Good luck and let us know how you do!!

[Bigbarge50]

Water temps might help keep some fish pre spawn with the weather.....

I am going to bust out the drop shot rig for the first really solid attempt at it and see if I can wiggle enough to lure in a bedding bass. If only the weekend weather holds.

[DRegan]

Fished a 10 acre pond in Goochland last week. Day started out great, landing about 20 smaller bass in the first hour...guy fishing with me picked up about 5 in that time. I caught almost the entirety of them off of poppers before eventually pulling a few off of some senkos.

Fished for bout 3-4 hours...between the two of us we cleared 50 fish. All smaller, biggest only bout 2lbs. I did latch into a BIG ONE though. Got him to the boat...saw his belly come up when he went parallel with the boat...would have been the biggest fish I've ever landed, so it was appropriate that he somehow tossed the hook a foot from the boat.

Just got my new kayak last week...so I'm looking to tear up some waters if this weather ever breaks! Wanted to hit Swift Creek Res today, wish the outside temp would wake up.

[Sam]

My wife broke her hip and I am home nursing her back to health so no fishing for me for a while.

Please keep posting your adventures as I enjoy reading them.

I hope she is feeling better by May 19 so I can fish my club's tournament on Lake Gaston but for now that is up in the air.

[bigbasshunter]

My wife broke her hip and I am home nursing her back to health so no fishing for me for a while.

Please keep posting your adventures as I enjoy reading them.

I hope she is feeling better by May 19 so I can fish my club's tournament on Lake Gaston but for now that is up in the air.

Ouch, our prayers are with you and your family.

[Bigbarge50]

My wife broke her hip and I am home nursing her back to health so no fishing for me for a while.

Please keep posting your adventures as I enjoy reading them.

I hope she is feeling better by May 19 so I can fish my club's tournament on Lake Gaston but for now that is up in the air.

Here's hoping for a speedy recovery Sam. Sending some positive thoughts your way.

[endless]

4.8 on wacky at Caroline pines today. The water temp said 77 degrees. Caught 5 today this was the biggest. All came in the shallows fishing drops on wacky. Bama Bug was the color. The 4.8 came off a stump I seen near the bank. I lost several on Ragetail Toads and one on a crack. Lost another possible 4lb on wacky and few other small ones. I fished the three lakes in Caroline Pines.

[Sam]

Endless, you did great!

I have to drive to Lebanon, Virginia today for 1PM and 2PM meetings followed by an 8PM appearance in front of the board so I will have about 5 hours to kill between the 2PM and 8PM meetings.

Will try to find a place to do some bass fishing, if possible.

Will let you know if I find a place. If not, maybe the local high school will have a home baseball game or i can hit the local Wal-Mart for a wild and crazy time.

[endless]

Thanks and have fun Sam!

[Nitrofreak]

Nice job Endless !!!!

I have a day off tomorrow, I am going to Anna to perform a break-in run on a boat I just finished, I hope to get in a little fishing while I am there, if all goes well.

It will be the first time since May of last year I have been on Anna...Phew, that's way too long.

Sam,

How is your wife getting along?

Hope she is recovering well.

[Sam]

Endless, no fishing yesterday. Was in meetings all day.

Got home at 1:30AM this morning.

Waiting for the 900 pounds of Louisiana crawfish to be delivered to my house and then heading to throw a bunch into a pond and do some fishing.

http://www.wxrisk.com/ says that we are going to get some strong storms in central Virginia around 3 to 9PM to day. This is the guy who has been hitting the weather on the head.

You may want to get him added to your Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/#!/WxRisk) and also tag him in your favorites.

Will let you guys know if I luck out this afternoon and nail a 10 pounder!!!!!!!!

[KLUGMO]

Hey All, this is KLUGMO. I live on Lake Louisa. Sat. I caught 12 lgm. bass and 1 15" crappie.

Sun. morn caught a 6.6 lb lgm. at picnic area behind my house. Wonderful fishing lake if you can

get off it before the yankers come out at 9:00am.

I will be retiring in a year or so and want to move to a lake on the east coast with GREAT

striper, lgm. bass and big cats and over 18-20,000 acres. I know Smith Mountain comes to

mind but cant move there because wifes family lives there. (dont ask)

I need a replica of that lake on east coast somewhere. Lake Norman is great but the

fishing there is declining with real oxygen problems. Fish kills of 7,000 in recent years.

Anybody have an idea?

[endless]

Welcome to the boards KLUGMO and congrats on the nice catches. Good luck on your new home search!

[Zoff]

Leesville Lake today! Bite was on but nothing over 3 pounds. About 15 or so (stopped counting at 10) LM on a mix of Storm Kickin' Shad, 2.5 and 1.5 Squarebill, Rage Craws, and drop shot... a catfish on a Rage Craw... and a little 4" pumpkinseed that hit my 1.5 KVD Chartreuse Black Back.

Water still trashy as all get out. Boat is filthy and I don't have time to wash it before SML tomorrow.

BTW... nobody to fish with tomorrow. Anybody interested?

[Sam]

Put 40 live Louisiana crawfish into my double secret pond. They went into the grass so they have a chance to make it and add another snack item for the bass.

Speaking of bass, I caught over 20, ranging from dinks to one four pounder and two three pounders.

They hit everything other than a buzzbait. They would hit my frog but no interest in the buzzbait.

All fish were returned healthy back into the pond so they will be there for future fishing adventures.

It was nice to finally wet a line and catch some bass.

Crawfish boil tomorrow so I will gouge myself like a bass on wonderful Louisiana crawfish!

[bigbass101]

wear were u fishing?

[shimmy]

wear were u fishing?

Ha, the kid will learn.