Art Conway (804-514-1486) out of Ed Allen’s Boats and Bait reported that
on Wednesday October 28, Chickahominy Lake mid-day surface water
temperatures in the lower lake were in the low 60’s. The lake level was
about 3 inches above the top of the dam. The water was light brown,
clear to very slightly cloudy from the surface to about 3 feet, then
murky below 4 feet. The murky layer which had been present for several
feet below 2 or 3 feet, apparently due to an algal layer, has reappeared
several feet deeper than during the summer.

A few blue cats, channel cats, and bullheads were scattered in deeper
regions of channels in the main lake. Crappies have moved out into
channels and were scattered as singles and small schools, some on the
bottom and some extending well above the bottom. Most bluegills and
shellcrackers also appeared to have moved out into the channels. A few
bass have been on channel edge flats and brush piles and a few have been
in deeper channel holes.

Shallows in many areas in creeks and in some main lake areas are still
difficult to fish due to numerous clumps of filamentous algae floating
at or near the surface or coating the bottom. Shallower areas in most
creeks and unshaded shallow main lake shoreline flats are filled with
hydrilla reaching to the surface.

For crappies, small minnows have been most effective, and with the fish
deep, they are best fished on drop shot or down line rigs. Small white
jigs have been effective for white perch.

Brian and Wayne Dementi and Art Conway had 1 shellcracker, 4 crappies, 2
white perch, 2 blue cats, and 1 largemouth bass. Tom Porter and Art
Conway had 1 bluegill, 14 crappies, and 3 white perch.