Art Conway (804-514-1486) out of Ed Allen’s Boats and Bait reported that
on Wednesday March 25 Chickahominy Lake mid-day surface water
temperatures in the lower lake were in the upper 50’s. The lake level
was about 3 inches above the top of the dam. The water was light to
medium brown, clear at the surface, slightly cloudy in the top 3 feet,
but much more murky for several feet below 3 feet, apparently due to an
algal layer.

A few blue cats, channel cats, and bullheads were scattered in deeper
regions of channels in the main lake, but some were also in some creeks
and on flats. Some crappies have been moving into spawning areas in
creeks during warmer weather, then leaving when cold fronts hit. Today,
we found moderate numbers of crappie spawning around cypress trees in
some creek mouths. Another group had moderate success long line
trolling for crappies in creek mouths. We have not encountered any
white perch for the last month. A very few bluegills and shellcrackers
are starting to show up in mouths of creeks. A few scattered pickerel
and bass have been in creek channels and channel edge flats.

Tom Porter, Sandra Rothrock, and I caught 11 nice crappies and one small
bass today by fishing small minnows under bobbers around cypress trees
in a creek mouth.