me and my dad are planning on going to the James river tomorrow, and should be on some good fish. will post pics when we return.

Good luck and I hope to see some pics!

Dang dude, me and my dad should be out there with yall...but instead we're stuck on land trying to fix this stupid m************* trolling motor > >....which we still have no idea what the problem is > >

I heard how ya did, hahaha man you just can't catch a break at that river ;D ;D ;D....but it's ok man I can't even fish in the tourney on the 8th :'(

well BP48 we did pretty good but i forgot to get the camera out the truck before we leftso no pics! :'(

well BP48 we did pretty good but i forgot to get the camera out the truck before we leftso no pics! :'(

You mean HE did pretty good, yer dad kicked yer tail , I'm just kiddin man. But I really do think that part of the river hates you or something.

yeah the lower part does kinda suck for me, but if we get where the smallies are, you better watch out, and i'm pretty good in Gunn's

I have always wanted to fish the James River.     Watched many a Classics held on the James on TV.

Hope ya'll did well.

Matt

I have always wanted to fish the James River.     Watched many a Classics held on the James on TV.

Hope ya'll did well.

Matt

It can be a VEEEERY frustrating river sometimes, but when you get on em you can catch em reel good

So let's get this straight.

Triton9 and his dad hit the lower James and the old man cleans Triton9's clock.

Then Basspro48 is fishing from the bank because he and his dad will not take the trolling motor to Billy Wells on Jeff Davis Highway (233.6726) or Jerry Cooper off Lewistown Road (752.5835) by the future site of of Bass Pro Shop to have the motor repaired or upgraded to a higher thrust.

So what to do?

Try fishing Herring Creek or the Chick River and hit the wood along the bank and the jetties along the shoreline or just throw in the towel and sit in the Barge Pit and try your luck.

And get the trolling motor fixed.

Go Wacky guys, go Wacky!!!!!

We got the trolling motor fixed finally!!!!!! There wasn't even anything wrong with the motor it was a just a short in the stupid battery charger that was tripping the circuit breaker...but yeah we got that fixed and went out on the Pamunkey for a few hours yesterday, caught 2 fish early on a spinnerbait just down from Williams, then went downriver to the thorofare and Holts Creek and didn't get another bite all day...That river drives me nuts sometimes.

Did you all hit Jack, White House or Holts Creeks on the Pamunkey?

I guess I like to fish any wood I can find or any drop offs out from the grass lines in this river.

Up river there are pads and wood in Broad Creek, too.

Ever fish White House or Big Creeks?

Your new boat should draw about 6 inches or less of water so I would think you all would go into the marsh area, depending on the tide and depth of the water when you got there.

I have found the Pamunkey to be good with a moving tide, usually outgoing.

I also had a wiring problem with my trolling motor and missed a tournament. I think the techs at Bass Pro Shops in Hampton cut the wire by accident when they were installing some electronics on my boat.

Gald you got the trolling motor fixed so you can go out and show Triton9 how to fish. ;D

Yeah we fished Holt creek and the Cumberland thorofare downriver, didn't get a single bite in any of those creeks even on the tail end of the outgoing tide and the incoming tide. I caught 2 keepers on the bank that is the first bend downriver from Williams paralleling the grassline with a war eagle spinnerbait but that was it all day.

I've had a fare amount of success in that river over the last 2 years, but it gets brutal during the heat of the summer. I catch twice as many fish in the fall and winter there than I do in the summer.

We fished Chickahominy lake today and managed 4 nice 1.5-2lbers and some dinks, and my dad lost a nice 4lber at the boat. I caught my fish on a t-rigged sweet beaver pitched to cypress trees when the tide was in, but during the outgoing I fished a 4.5" roboworm with a 1/16oz weight along the grasslines. My dad caught his fish on a 5" Berkley finesse worm. And when we were taking the boat out my dad talked to another guy who said he lost a 7lber at the boat and it was his only bite of the day.

Gald you got the trolling motor fixed so you can go out and show Triton9 how to fish. Grin

I hear that ;D