Chuck , Larry, Don and Daniel Tingler with Enrique Medina

May 24th, 2008 : Sunny and Pleasant, Memorial Weekend, Water Temp 69* and Clear.
Caught bait early and picked the guys up at the dock at 5:30 am. Set up on a point nearby with some fish on it but the fish did not want to eat. Found some other fish on a main lake flat and put downlines in their faces and the madness began. Fish really weren't eating today but more killing the baits. We hit 4 or 5 different places and by 11:30 we had witnessed about 200 strikes, catching a dozen Stripers, a bunch of Catfish and a couple of Bass. Don is pictured holding 2 of the largest Bass he has ever caught.

Bob Glynn with Dan and Bart

May 22nd, 2008: Partly Sunny and Cool, Water Temp 68* and Clear. Caught bait early and picked clients up at 5:30 and headed for a main lake flat. Found fish 30' deep and put downlines in their faces. Took only a couple minutes for the action to begin and by 7 o'clock we had already had over 50 bites. We worked the area for a while and fished a couple other similar areas and then hit a flat that was loaded with fish , put baits on them and all the lines went off for 30 minutes straight. The guys are pictured with the first fish they each caught. Today we had over 175 hits by 11am, loosing count of how many fish we caught. All fish were released today to be caught again.

Dan Torgerson with guests Willie Crum and James Deal

May 20th, 2008 : Rain and cool, Water temp 66* and Stained.
Got out on the water early and caught Herring and Gizzards and picked clients up at 5:30am. Set up a dozen free lines and 3 down lines on a main lake flat and pulled boards over 20 flats and points. By 8 we had only 1 Striper in the boat so I decided to make a move to down lines over deeper flats where I found schools of Stripers. We started getting hits immediatly and continued to till we ran out of bait. We went and caught more bait and set up on another deep flat with no luck there. James is holding a Bass he caught on a downline. Today we had close to 100 hits, catching Stripers, Bass and Catfish.

Goose, Senior. Brad Beckham and Bob Haas

May 16th, 2008: Rain and Clouds, Water temp 69*.

Got out early this morning and caught bait. Went directly to where I found some nice schools of fish yesterday and put an assortment of baits on them. We had 10 hits within 5 minutes , every hit the fish just hitting the back of the bait. I put out some huge Gizzards and pulled them across a flat and Goose put a 10 pounder in the boat. Pulled another 500 yards with no action so I went to downlines. Hit an area full of fish and had another 50 strikes. Went uplake and caught more bait and put out a spread of boards over a flat with fish on it and boated a 7 pounder, worked it for another 45 minutes, nothing. A friend called me over to what he thought were some feeding fish and we put a Striper in the boat. A major storm blew in and we had to get off the water. Today we had 60 to 70 hits , got wet and blown around the lake.

Brian Mohr

May 15th, 2008 : Sunny and Pleasant, Water Temp 69* and Very Stained.
Caught bait this morning and started off on a main lake flat pulling boards. Saw a lot of fish but after an hour only had 2 fish in the boat so we made a move. The rain over the last week has really muddied up the lake and I saw plenty of fish in the upper water column. I decided to run up lake and put the biggest baits I had out on the banks and the move paid off, catching 10 Stripers by noon. Brian is holding a 10 pounder.

Doug Ball

May 12th, 2008. Rain, Cold and Gloomy

Last night Lake Anna lost one of its most well liked and revered fisherman and resident, Striper Fisherman Doug Ball. Doug's laughter and Jolliness will be missed but not forgotten. We would like to express our deepest sympathy to his family and friends.

The Gaines

May 7th, 2008: Sunny and Warm, Water Temp 72* and Clear.
Picked clients up early and went to catch bait. Set up on a main lake flat pulling big Gizzards. Immediately the Stripers started boiling the baits but would not hit them. I put out some smaller Herring but they would not get looked at so we continued to pull the gizzards but only boated 2 fish by 9am. Found a large school of Stripers on a deep flat and put downlines on them but they refused to hit our offerings. After working a couple of large school with no success I made another move and worked another school with limited success. We had 30 hits today catching 8 Stripers, 3 Bass and a couple Cats.