Art Conway (804-514-1486) out of Ed Allen’s Boats and Bait reported that
on Wednesday May 6 Chickahominy Lake mid-day surface water temperatures
in the lower lake were in the upper 60’s. The lake level was about 2
inches below the top of the dam. The water was medium brown, clear from
the surface to about 1 foot, 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 associated with traditional spawning
areas. A few scattered pickerel and bass have been in creek channels
and channel edge flats.

Shawn Batey caught 35 crappies and 1 largemouth bass on small minnows.
Tom Porter and I caught 26 bluegills and 12 shellcrackers on flies or
red wigglers in a creek and along a main lake shoreline and 11 crappies,
1 pickerel, and 1 largemouth bass on small minnows around channel-edge
wood cover in the main lake today.