Art Conway (804-514-1486) out of Ed Allen’s Boats and Bait reported that
on Wednesday April 22 Chickahominy Lake mid-day surface water
temperatures in the lower lake were in the middle to upper 60’s. The
lake level was about even with the top of the dam. The water was medium
brown, clear from the surface to about 2 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. Crappies had been moving into spawning areas in creeks
during warmer weather, then leaving when cold fronts hit, but today they
were apparently gone from the creeks and from the cypress trees in the
main lake. Moderate numbers of crappie were on main lake channel-edge
wood cover, especially near creek mouths. Moderate numbers of bluegills
and shellcrackers are in some creeks, mostly on weedy flats. A few
scattered pickerel and bass have been in creek channels and channel edge
flats.

Luke and Scott Schafer and I caught 22 crappies, 1 blue cat, and 3
largemouth bass on small minnows last Friday. Tom Porter and I caught
17 bluegills and 3 shellcrackers on red wigglers in a creek and 20
crappies ranging from 7 to 13 inches and 2 small largemouth bass on
small minnows around channel-edge wood cover in the main lake today.