Know Any Good Northern VA Lake Fishing This Weekend?

[slogg9]

I was going to head down south, but the noreaster cancelled those plans. So, I'll be putting the canoe out and trolling tomorrow/sunday in some local lakes. I like to eat my catch, so I was trying to find nearby spots with walleye, pike, pickerel, yellow perch or muskie. I've determined that Lake Brittle in Warrenton has walleye and Abel Reservoir in Stafford has chain pickerel.

Does anyone know of anywhere around here with both? How about muskie, pike, or yellow perch? It'd be pretty awesome to find a spot that has more than one species worth catching and eating.

Lake Anna is always an option, but it's so damn big that you've really gotta get lucky and find which neck of the woods the fish are hanging out in when you're there. I've had very limited success in the 5-10 times I've fished Lake Anna.

I figure rivers and creeks and streams are going to be effed for the next couple days so it's lake/pond/reservoir only this weekend.

Any suggestions?

:helpsmilie:

[timber]

A friend fishes lake Anna all the time, last I heard Christopher run was hot

[slogg9]

Caught two baby walleye in Lake Brittle. Pretty lame. Lots of snags and not much action, but I did run into the Viet Nam vet who holds the catfish record there with I think a 54 or 56 pounder, which is pretty crazy considering how small and somewhat shallow that 'lake' is...

I see Christopher run on the map, any particular area, or that whole finger that feeds into upper lake anna?

[slogg9]

Well, Abel Reservoir was a bust. Lots of tree stuff floating and the bottom was a leaf bed. Saw a few fish jump, but didn't catch anything worth mentioning. Beautiful place though! I fished in a couple lakes in Ontario this summer and this place did actually look like a Canadian lake. Very long and lots of nooks and crannies. Just wish the fish were biting, because it was the best LOOKING place I've fished in a long while. Used up my battery trolling. When I hooked it up to charge it was at 28%!!

Guess I'll hit the Tidewater region next weekend and stay on the CBBT. Lemme know how things are going down there as the week progresses...

[timber]

Caught two baby walleye in Lake Brittle. Pretty lame. Lots of snags and not much action, but I did run into the Viet Nam vet who holds the catfish record there with I think a 54 or 56 pounder, which is pretty crazy considering how small and somewhat shallow that 'lake' is...

I see Christopher run on the map, any particular area, or that whole finger that feeds into upper lake anna?

The cat that the guy caught was planted there if that is how you say it, this is factual, there is\was a guy in nokesville that has a pond about 5acres. They would go to the rapp and the james catch and relocate to his pond, then once or twice a year he would have a cat tourney for cash see the picture?? The point, the cats that were caught out of the pond that were originally in the rapp and the james he did not want them put back so they would take them and put them in brittle, it was blowing the vdgif mind, lol. When they finally figured it out the ran a surv. and caught them putting them in, they did not give any citations but did tell them not to do it anymore because of the enviro impact. This is not one of those hearsay it is fact.

I talked to my friend a few min ago that fishes anna, they caught 28 most around 18-26" and it is the finger that you see. they have been using bucktails trolling with downriggers and then a couple of flat lines as well, kinda the same thing we do on the bay just downsize your baits.

[striper1]

Just go to Burke lake. All kinds of fish there,

Striper1

[farm use]

A few years back we caught Walleye/Sagear in cub run before it dumped into Lake Manassas. Early Spring I think. Water temp around 50.

[warrenahrens]

wrong board....