Art Conway (804-514-1486) out of Ed Allen’s Boats and Bait reported that
Chickahominy Lake mid-day surface water temperatures were in the middle
80’s in the central lower lake on Tuesday (8/2/2023), with water below
10 feet in the lower 80’s. The lake level was about 2 inches above the
top of the dam. The water was light brown, clear in the top 1 foot,
moderately cloudy for the next foot, and quite cloudy for the next
several feet in the central lower lake.

A few small blue cats, channel cats, and bullheads were scattered on
flats, along drop-offs, and in channels in the main lake and in some
creeks, and when active were hitting live minnows and cut bait. A
mixture of sizes of crappie were on wood cover on deep flats and on
channel edges in the main lake and were slightly to moderately active,
mostly hitting live minnows, but also occasionally hitting tubes, curly
tail grubs, small swim baits, small Gulp minnows, and wet flies. White
and yellow perch were scattered or in loose aggregates on deep flats,
channel edges, and in channels in the main lake and in a few creeks, and
when active were hitting small baits including live minnows, Gulp
minnows, and swim baits. Many bluegills and a few shellcrackers were on
main lake shorelines and flats and were moderately active, hitting wet
flies and live worms. The larger bluegills had loosely clustered in
typical spawning sites in response to yesterday’s full moon. Some
pickerel and largemouth bass were around cypress trees, on flats, and on
channel edges in the main lake. Other bass and pickerel were in
channels, on flats, or near shoreline cover in major creeks. When
active, bass and pickerel were hitting live minnows, spinnerbaits, swim
baits, stick worms, crank baits, and jerk baits.

Fishing with Art Conway, Sandra Rothrock had 31 bluegills, 2
shellcrackers, 9 crappies, 5 white perch, and 2 largemouth bass. Tom
Porter had 43 bluegills, 4 shellcrackers, 7 crappies, 2 white perch, and
1 yellow perch.