Art Conway (804-514-1486) out of Ed Allen’s Boats and Bait reported that
on Wednesday June 3, Chickahominy Lake mid-day surface water
temperatures in the lower lake were in the middle to upper 70’s. The
lake level was about 4 inches above 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. Moderate numbers of crappies were on main lake
channel-edge wood cover, especially near creek mouths. Moderate numbers
of bluegills and shellcrackers were in some creeks and on main lake
shoreline flats associated with traditional spawning areas. A few
scattered pickerel and bass have been in creek channels and channel edge
flats.

Ron Floor and I caught 11 crappies, 2 white perch, and a 4-pound
largemouth bass on small minnows. Dave and Jack Pong and I caught 63
bluegills, 1 shellcracker, 2 crappies, 1 white perch, and 2 largemouth
bass on flies. Tom Porter and I caught 14 bluegills, 3 shellcrackers,
and 1 largemouth bass on flies, and 26 crappies and 3 white perch on
small minnows.