Capt. Art Conway of Conway’s River Rat Guide Service (804-746-2475) out of Ed Allen’s Boats and Bait reported that Chickahominy Lake mid-day water temperatures were in the low 60’s in the main lake on Wednesday (10/22/2014). The lake level was a few inches above the top of the dam. The water was light brown and very slightly cloudy in the central lower lake, with murky areas near some shorelines.

Blue cats were scattered throughout the lake and up some creeks. A fair number of crappie were along some shorelines and on the outer regions of some hydrilla flats, while others were scattered on mid-depth wood cover and on channel edges. Active crappie were hitting live minnows, Wright Bait Co. curlytail jigs, small tubes, spinner jigs, blade baits, brightly colored Trout Magnets, and swim baits. Yellow perch were scattered on shorelines and hydrilla flats in the main lake and up some creeks and were hitting live minnows and small jigs. Small to mid-sized bluegill and shellcracker were in widely scattered small clusters along main lake shorelines, with larger fish on hydrilla flats slightly out from the shoreline, around some mid-depth wood cover, or along channel edges. Bluegill and shellcracker were hitting live worms and crickets, flies, small tubes, small Gulp baits, small spoons, brightly colored Trout Magnets, and 1 inch dark Wright Bait Co. curlytail jigs. Bass were next to shoreline vegetation and on mid-depth grass flats and wood cover in the main lake and up some creeks and were hitting poppers, frogs and toads, stick worms, creature baits, shallow crank baits, and live minnows. Pickerel were scattered in the creeks and main lake and hitting stick worms, crank baits, spinnerbaits and live minnows. A few striper are roaming the mid-depth and channel areas in the lake and taking swim baits, blade baits, and jigs.