Art Conway (804-514-1486) out of Ed Allen’s Boats and Bait reported that
Chickahominy Lake mid-day surface water was in the middle 80’s in the
lower region of the main lake and in the major creeks on Wednesday
(8/20/2025), and was warming from the top down, since temperatures at
depths of 10 feet or more were in the lower 80’s. The lake level was
about 4 inches above the top of the dam. The water was light brown,
clear to slightly murky in the upper 3 feet and murky below 3 feet due
to an apparent layer of suspended microscopic algae.

A few blue cats, channel cats, and bullheads were scattered on flats,
along drop-offs, and primarily in deeper regions of channels in the main
lake, but no large groups were observed. Small and medium crappies were
on wood cover near channel edges and were hitting minnows under bobbers
and occasionally hitting jigs. White perch were in loose schools
roaming flats and channel edges. A few bluegills and shellcrackers were
in creeks, but most were on shorelines and flats in the main lake. A
few scattered pickerel and bass were in creek channels or on main lake
flats and channel edges. We observed one rare feeding frenzy in which
about a dozen bass scattered along a shoreline flat were leaping into
the air to catch dragonflies.

Fishing with Art Conway, Garry Kwist and Steve Haley caught 1 bluegill,
1 shellcracker, 13 crappies, and 2 largemouth bass. Paul Dugent caught
14 crappies, 1 white perch, and 3 largemouth bass. Brian Dementi, Ben
Harris, and Kasey Starke caught 1 bluegill, 2 crappies, 1 white perch,
and 1 largemouth bass. Sandra Rothrock caught 17 bluegills, 5 crappies,
1 white perch, and 3 largemouth bass.