My brothers and I spent the day yesterday on Lake Anna, both the hot and cold side, and we had a blast. The wind was absolutely horrendous, but we made it work and only suffered sore arms and shoulders from paddling. We started the day on the cold side, to target stripers, and I caught a 21" saugeye on an underspin on my first cast in the dark before we even launched the kayaks, pretty cool IMO. We then went on to catch a few stripers and largemouth on Alabama rigs and swimbaits, including one 25" striper. (in the evening we went back out after stripers again and they were really feeding, we caught over 40 stripers total that day)

 

Then it was off to the hot side. We had to paddle over a mile in white capping waves to get to where we wanted to fish, but it was definitely worth it, as we landed well over 40 bass between the three of us. Most of these fish are small, and unfortunately the only two good bites we had (both fish pushing 3-3.5lbs) spit the hook. Nearly all of our fish were caught on 4" keitech swing impacts on 1/8oz jigheads, that is an extremely effective bait there in the clear water. I did have a school with 3-4 bass in the 4-6lb range swim up to look at my kayak while I was pulled off on the bank to re-tie. Once they are looking at you they definitely won't bite, but it's a bummer because I knew what that area held and made two passes fishing it before I saw them! Smart fish!

 

Dinner guests

You guys are hitters  for sure,great report

 

 

Nice fish, makes me want to go fish a steam plant! Thanks for the post 

Awesome! I've been dying to make the trip up there, but it's much bigger than what I normally fish, and it's quite intimidating considering the two hour drive. Nice job!