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Post by jt on Jan 4, 2017 12:24:22 GMT -5
Hey guys, I took a photo of this photo that was hanging at Anna Point Marina back in the spring of 2016. I'm just recently learning how to post photos that is why I did not post it sooner. Just thought it would be informative to you guys on this forum. Jim hemby( fishing guide) also Landed a good-sized fish and he has a video posted on his website Lake Anna striper guide, you can Google that  |
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Post by Live Bait JunkEE on Jan 5, 2017 7:26:57 GMT -5
That is my good freind -- I was talking to him throught his catch that day. he was very excited and had fished there for 17 years without every catching a fish over 16lbs. What a fish!!!!!
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Post by jt on Jan 5, 2017 8:37:24 GMT -5
That is my good freind -- I was talking to him throught his catch that day. he was very excited and had fished there for 17 years without every catching a fish over 16lbs. What a fish!!!!! Thanks for the comment, do you know if he was using a gizzard Shad for bait? And where about he caught it? |
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Post by mwardncsu on Jan 5, 2017 9:44:13 GMT -5
I heard he caught it in the mouth  Sorry, that one as too easy....  Very few of those big ones in Anna from what I understand..... seems like you hear about one or two every year or two that exceed 20 lbs. Of course Anna is a very different lake than SML and is managed very different as well - DGIF views it very much as a put & take fishery - discussions with our biologist indicated that the management plan there is they stock X fish a year and expect those all to be caught out of the lake within 3 years. Of course when you see pics of guide trips with twenty, 4-6 lb fish all hanging on the rack or laying on the dock - and hear reports of catching 50 fish a day in the hot summer water, releasing all but the limit, you can understand why. Now, I also realize Anna is a very different lake than SML and I don't know that it has the characteristics or capabilities to grow a larger number of bigger fish even if you wanted it to - it's a shallower lake, warmer temps due to the power plant, etc - does have a bit of a refuge in the river arms but that can only sustain a limited number of fish. But if you want to have bigger fish you have to leave them in the lake long enough to grow to be a bigger fish.....  |
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Post by 31Airborne on Jan 6, 2017 8:48:55 GMT -5
historically the better stripers in Anna come from the splits (confluence of North Anna and Pawmunkey Rivers). there are some fairly deep (altho' not as deep as SML) channels there w/ some hard swings. you'll often find the stripers herding bait into the swings. in the winter you'll often find huge schools of striper hanging around the Dike 3 discharge. the warmer water draws bait and smaller predator fish in. you'll find the stripers lurking outside the discharge current.
mward is correct - when the stripers do go up into the rivers they tend not to stay there for long. they'll eventually eat themselves out of everything.
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Post by Live Bait JunkEE on Jan 6, 2017 17:25:43 GMT -5
That is my good freind -- I was talking to him throught his catch that day. he was very excited and had fished there for 17 years without every catching a fish over 16lbs. What a fish!!!!! Thanks for the comment, do you know if he was using a gizzard Shad for bait? And where about he caught it? That fish was caught on a 6 inch shad (dollar bill) -- I caught one the same week of April 2014 ---- 22 pounds 6 ounces in 2014 -- 12 inch Gizzard (weighed and released alive at Anna Point) and Randy caught his within in 30 yards of the same spot ---- it was NO where near the splits. CURIOUS -- to say the least -- |
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Sorry, that one as too easy.... 
