Art Conway (804-514-1486) out of Ed Allen’s Boats and Bait reported that
on Wednesday April 29 Chickahominy Lake mid-day surface water
temperatures in the lower lake were in the middle to upper 60’s. The
lake level was about 2 inches above 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 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 and
on some main lake shoreline flats loosely associated with traditional
spawning areas. A few scattered pickerel and bass have been in creek
channels and channel edge flats.

Bill Marley and Dennis York caught 21 crappies and 1 white perch on
small minnows. Alice Anne Potts and her Mom caught 21 bluegills and 15
shellcrackers on red wigglers. Tom Porter and I caught 8 bluegills and
3 shellcrackers (one an 11 inch citation) on red wigglers in a creek and
along a main lake shoreline and 25 crappies and 2 largemouth bass on
small minnows around channel-edge wood cover in the main lake today.