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Fishing Report
McCotter's Lake Anna Guide Service Fishing Report/Forecast
June June 2008 Lake Anna Fishing Report Jim Hemby - Lake Anna Guide Service STRIPERS: Striper fishing is and will be for the next 2 months HOT. With water temperatures rising into the 80's and the Stripers finishing their spawn the fish are pulling back to their deeper main lake schooling areas and are feeding on schools of Herring and Gizzard Shad fattening up for the summer. The Stripers are migrating into the midlake regions of the lake and feeding on points and midlake humps in lowlight conditions, falling back to to the river channel bends and flats in the 30 foot range during the day. Topwater baits will entice some explosive strikes early in the morning hours. Good baits to throw are Berkley Frenzy Poppers, Pencil Poppers, Redfins and Spooks. For live bait run Water Bugz planner boards early in the morning in the shallow waters and once the sun gets bright pull back to the adjacent flats and put downlines in their faces baited with Herring, Gizzards or Jumbo Minnows and be ready for constant and ferocious action. For artificial during midday, jig a ¾ oz. Hopkins spoon in their face or troll deep diving Redfins with bucktail trailers, Norman DD-22’s, or XPS LEC-15’s and umbrella rigs over 30' flats. Concentrate your efforts within 3 miles either side of the 208 Bridge. Guide Jim Hemby and clients have been catching limits of fish fairly consistently in the past weeks. Paul Henon, George Hussey, Gary Skillicorn, and Tom Welsh caught their limit with Jim. As did, Michael Kohler, Jim Ciulla, Eugene Caine, and David Najeti.
BASS: The Bass have finished their spawn and have retreated to deeper water nearby spawning areas to replenish their energy and feed up for the summer months. The Bass will regain their energy levels and start feeding on the points, humps and flats hitting chuggar and popping baits with vengeance. Work your baits in clear water with slow, rhythmic chuggs giving the Bass time to locate and blow up on the bait. The Bass will come up out of 20 feet of water to take advantage of your offering. When they are not chasing baits the Bass can be caught in main lake brush, rock piles and on primary points using large Berkley Power worms in the cover and Carolina rigged worms or lizards elsewhere covering as much water as you can. Drop Shotting over rocky flats with smaller offerings and shakey jigs around bridge pilings will produce this month. The Bass will also ambush spinner baits and twitch baits around the grass beds in the North Anna. Wilson Bradley of Spotsylvania caught a 6 lb fish. Martin Villa and Jeff Gibson had a 13 lb 8 oz stringer
CATFISH: These fish are extremely plentiful and are feeding everywhere. The larger Cats are just under or behind the schools of Stripers . Anglers are catching fish using Powerbait Catfish Bait on fish finder rigs and the Cats sure are hitting live bait very well. The Catfish show up on your depth finder as arches on or very near the bottom. CRAPPIE: The slabs have pulled out and are being caught on deeper points with brushpiles and on the deeper bridge pilings in the 10 to 20 foot ranges. They continue to hit small minnows and jigs . The fish are also stacking up on ledges in the rivers in the 8 to 15 foot depths. If you fish the “Hot Side” the fish will congregate much deeper under the bridges in 20 to 30 foot depths. Crappie rigs [two hook rigs] tipped with minnows are deadly this month. Simply lower your offerings to the depth of the fish and once you start catching doubles mark your line at that depth and fill your cooler up.
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