It was a long day on the kayak today! I fished in Sturgeon Creek from 8am-4pm while bass boats came and went the entire time. The pleasure boats, however, did not come and go, they seemed to continuously come and stay and make huge wakes. Why people pick small creeks to "recreate" in when they have the main lake all to themselves is beyond me, but it pretty much shut off the fish by 1:30, so I fished a couple protected areas. Fish were guarding fry  or very halfheartedly guarding an area that I assume had a bed, most of these fish would not bite, the few that did show interest would charge the bait then come to a dead halt when you would normally expect them to eat it. I saw several fish in the 4-6lb class but no dice. Put 10 bass in the kayak, two "nice" ones, a 3.02 and a 2.44. The 3.02 is my biggest ned rig fish to date. 

I wrapped up the day at Dike 3 where I caught 4 largemouth and 4 stripers. The stripers were schooling on herring so I rigged a super spook jr on a spinning rod with 8lb line (so I could reach them if they started blowing up at an iffy distance) and had a blast. 3 of them surpassed the 20" size limit so they came home with me!

You can see Ned in his top lip

Skinny 2.44

And this was too cool not to share, I think it is a Green Sunfish x Pumpkinseed hybrid. Lake Anna has numerous sunfish hybrids, I bet one out of every 10 you catch there is a combination of two species.

That pan fish is beautiful! Belongs in a aquarium.

Sounds like a great day. (Except for the idiots in the pleasure boats, with no concern for others).  Nice looking catches.

Nice!

nicely done! not resting after winning the state champ i see!!

14 hours ago, buzzed bait said:

nicely done! not resting after winning the state champ i see!!

No breaks!

Great job ETS, I caught a couple of those at dike 2 last summer and you are correct, they truly are a beautiful species and actually put up a good fight all the way back to the boat !!

Awesome report man !!!

 

Awesome! Always nice to take some fish home too. 

I think that's a pure green sunfish, in spawning colors. They begin spawning about the time of the largemouth peak spawn.