A lot of the bass have gone to their summer pattern. Deep water near creek and river channels. During July and August you will find these feeding on the banks during the first two hours in the morming and the last two in the evening. My favorite lure for this is a STILLWATER POPPER. During the day fish deep with a Shakey Head on 8lb or 10lb SEAQUAR INVIZX FLUOROCARBON. I also like the BAGLEY SHAKEY HEADS. I recomend a carolina rig for deep fish. Be sure and use a FLUOROCARBON LEADER. Good Luck!

Striper can be found from the first bridges above the splits, all the way to the damn. Most are being caught on live bait useing free lines and down rigs. Others are being taken by trolling deep diving baits like DD 2/2 and Red Fins. Some are also useing buck tails and sassey shads. Good Luck!

It’s amazing how quickly June has arrived! It seems like just last week I was wearing layers in 40 degree water looking for shocked or dying shad to help locate a monster bass… Anyway, we are headed into the early summer fishing patterns on Lake Anna and the fish are on the move. To deeper water that is, as the boat traffic picks up and the water temps reach into the upper 70’s and 80’s the fish will retreat to deeper water, only returning to the shallows to gorge themselves in the mornings and evenings.

 Bass:

Post spawn is in full effect, spreading the bass out into many different places. Some are already into deep haunts, others schooling together near secondary points and humps. If you find schooling bass you can limit out very quickly. If you “hop” from point to point throwing swim baits, crank baits and spinner baits, you can find a school of bass in the 2-3 pound range. Many times it will take 10 points to find one “good one”. It’s really a matter of being on whatever point they decide to feed on, whenever they decide to do so. There are also some more localized fish in deeper cover (15-30 ft). Tactics change dramatically when you decide to target these fish. You will want to use lighter line (8lb) and soft plastics. Shakey heads and texas rigs are king when targeting deeper cover. Locate deeper brush or dock pilings and reduce your retrieve to a crawl… The slower the better. Be very deliberate in where and how you present your bait, it could make the difference between catching fish or just catching a mean sunburn!

Striper

 June marks the beginning of my favorite time of the year to catch high numbers of stripers. We have already been employing casting and trolling techniques to land 15-20 fish in the 5-12 lb range in an afternoon…. And it only gets better. The stripers will form huge (hundreds, maybe thousands of fish) schools in 30-40 ft of water during the day and move up on nearby humps and flats in the morning and evening. Zara Spooks, Poppers, jerkbaits and swimbaits will catch shallow feeding fish in the morning and evening. Catching a big, angry, aggressive striper on a top water plug is by far the most exciting fishing on Lake Anna. By the time the sun gets high and some of the boats are out and about, the fish go deep. There are two main ways to catch deeper stripers, one is to troll crankbaits (dd22’s, stretch 20’s etc.) and  swimbaits while the other is to hang live bait over the schools. Both are very effective methods to catch limits of Lake Anna Stripers and then some

Crappie

Nice size slabs can be found all over the lake. Bridges, docks, brush piles, beaver huts, and grass are home to thousands of Crappie. One method is to try casting grubs, tubes, and beetle spins as close to whatever cover you are targeting. Another approach is to use a slip bobber above a #6 gold aberdeen hook tipped with a small minnow.