Chickahominy Tidal Lake

[carp]

I launched out of Eagles Landing Sat. morning with some medium minnows and the tide was on it's way out. The water in front of the store was only about 2-3' most of the way across the lake . I headed up the creeks on the left side and found some good channel edges and my first fish was a good sized Crappie. Continued up the lake along some mud flats and up Shingle Annies Creek, 1 1/2' of water opening up into 6-8' and picked up some nice Pickeral ,a few cat's, and 2 rather large Bowfin. Man, they are hard to get in the kayak .

I only saw 1 power boat , I guess because of the water level dropping and exposing alot of stumps and mud bars. The fish were rolling on the surface and I must have seen 100 clear the water. Best day I've ever had on that lake.

[ekim22]

I would like to put my bass boat in there but I think the reason most aren't is because of the worry about launching/retrieving the boat....specifically, backing the trailer off of the back edge of the ramp!

[carp]

Thats great news to a kayaker

[Jarosh]

Really sucks to hear that the Lock is busted on the lake. From what I've been reading they won't even think about fixing it until late August.