Fishing Articles

We’ve been getting lots of very good reports from the Virginias lately, bait anglers, lure anglers and a few fly anglers all seem to be doing well. Lure anglers are doing the best early and late in the day with Thomas Bouyants, Kastmasters and roostertails, bait anglers are catching fish throughout the day with power bait, pinched crawlers and mice...
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Did a water column temperature test on Wednesday at 11am. Right smack dab in the middle of the south basin. 67.9 surface 66.9 @ 5ft; 65.6 @ 10ft; 64.5 @ 15ft; 63.2 @ 20ft; 62 @ 25ft; 61.1 @ 30ft; 58.6 @ 35ft; 57.4 @ 40ft; 54.8 @ 45ft. Most of our action was still in the upper 10ft of the...
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5-23-24: Pre Season scouting report: Lake surface temps holding in the low to mid 60’s & even as low as 58/59F this morning. Did rise to 62F+ by 10am. Good temps for fishing!! One noticeable thing is the water color and visibility. Green is our new normal. Looking for bottom in 4ft of water was not happening. This can change...
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    Well howdy do!!!! Looks like a few bigguns are starting to chew! Boat rentals start Friday!     What a stalky Rainbow - 5lb 6oz - caught at Sabrina by Chris Gaskill from Aspendell. ...
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Trout held out right through the end of April but with surface temperatures on the rise we accelerated our schedule and finished planting in the first week of May. At the same time trout started moving to deeper water. It took a week or so for things to stabilize, and now you can catch down below 15ft. There’s very little shore...
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Beautiful day for a little boat ride! Lol covered 26 miles of water today just messing around. We have quite a bit of color to the water & that doesn't change from point A,B or C. I started out by 7:30am with pretty solid mid 62F's surface temps across & up the south basin until I was above slough point....
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