UPCOMING BASS TOURNAMENTS
OCTOBER 25, 2015
$110 ENTRY FEE
7AM-3PM or SAFE LIGHT-3:30PM
2015 Anna Point Marina / Fish Tales Angler Appreciation Tournament
Presented By Dubby’s Fishing And Hunting
Dubby Carr, owner and avid tournament angler, is a friend of the marina and also sponsored last year’s inaugural event with a lucrative prize pack. Dubby’s Fishing and Hunting will provide Custom Event T-Shirts to commemorate the exciting 2015 event. Dubby will also provide another fantastic prize pack to be given away again this year.
The Anna Point Marina / Fish Tales Angler Appreciation Tournament is the highlight event of the Lake Anna Bass Tournament Season and this year’s affair should be spectacular, especially with Dubby’s Fishing and Hunting on board as the 2015 Presenting Sponsor.
When you see Dubby on Tournament Day, please give him a big shout out and thank him for his generous support. Dubby’s Fishing and Hunting is located in Harrisonburg, Virginia and has quickly become the premier Sporting Goods Shop in The Shenandoah Valley. With their knowledgeable and friendly staff, Dubby’s is the place to go for all your fishing and hunting needs in the Shenandoah Valley.
Thank you, Dubby, for coming on board and we are honored and thankful to have you as the 2015 Presenting Sponsor
LAKE ANNA CUP
NOVEMBER 1, 2015
Please make checks payable to..
Woods & Waters Magazine
75 Edgewood Dr
Mineral Va 23117 or
Stop by Fish Tales and pay either Chris Craft or
Dave Fauntleroy your entry fee. Boat Number Will Be
Assigned In The Order Entry Fees Arrive.
Entry fees are as follows..
Qualified Team $70
At Large Team $80
Day of Event $85
(a qualified team is any team that fished a Lake Anna
tournament series in 2015 and finished in the top 25 teams)
With the lake being at FULL POOL heading into the fall, great catches are expected. We now have Water Willow and wood with plenty of water on it. The Bass should be aggressive and willing to take a variety of baits. The Crappie and Striper will also begin to feed up for winter.
Bass- Look for fish to be aggressive and chasing pods of baitfish (Threadfin Shad & Blueback Herring) at anytime throughout the day. Top water baits are a very exciting way to catch these feeders, my choices are a Paycheck Baits Repoman, Damiki Rambler, Don Iovino Spash It, Cotton Cordell Broken Back Redfin & Damiki MTB Noisy Buzzbait.
Another great way to catch these fish is with a Damiki Anchovy Shad rigged on a 1/4oz jighead or a Damiki Armor Shad rigged on a Gamakatsu 4/0 EWG Hook. Try a 1/4oz Longbill Scrounger with your favorite soft jerkbait.
If you are not fortunate enough to find schooling action, there are many more ways to catch fish. If you are headed up lake, Dave’s Tournament Tackle Tigershad Spinnerbaits fish over top of and through the Willow Grass will produce violent strikes when the fish are actively chasing.
If they are not active, Jig & Pig Combinations will catch heavy, fat fall fish. Coming to Fish Tales soon is the Doubld D Custom Baits Hybrid Jig, until then get yours at www.double-d-jigs.com If the water is stained, darker colors like Black, Black/Blue Flake and Brown dressed with a Snack Daddy Lures Ditch Chicken. Try throwing a Bullshad Swimbait around flats, docks and willow grass. These big baits can and will draw violent strikes for non aggressive fish.
Lipless crankbaits are great search baits this time of year as well, whether it is a Red Eye Shad, Rat L Trap or any other lipless bait, covering water is the key to finding fish. a slow steady retrieve is my favorite, bumping your bait off of the bottom.
Around midlake, the water clarity will be much better, shakey head rigged plastics and soft jerkbaits skipped up underneath boat docks, shallow running crankbaits and lipless baits fish around docks during the middle of the day when it is bright out are all good ways to entice fish into biting.
Downlake you will find fish underneath boat docks, the water is really clear down there. Lighter line and smaller baits will produce best for you. Try pitching a dropshot with a small finesse worm.
CRAPPIE– At the current time there are stilkl numbers of fish on the uplake bridge pilings. As the water cools down into the low 60’s, they will make a move to shallow water and begin to feed up. Small minnows on jig heads or slip bobbers will work best as long as the fish are deep (8-14 feet), after they move up, 2″ Kalin Curly Tail grubs rigged on a 1/16oz jig head works great.
STRIPER-The Striper can be found throughout the entire lake at this time, look for schooling action early and late in the day. The splits region up to Dillards Bridge on the Pamunkey arm and up the Holiday Bridge on the Anna arm holds the most schools of fish.
If they are actively chasing and swirling on baitfish, my favorite way to catch them is with a Broken Back Redfin waked just under the surface. Once the feed is over, look for the schools with your electronics, after you locate them, drop a Toothache Spoon or Damiki Vault to them and hold on. Casting Bass Assassin Sea Shads or Damiki Anchovy Shads rigged on1/4oz jigheads into the schools of breaking fish will usually attract the bite of larger fish.
Towards the end of October and beginning of November, look for fish from Christopher Run all the way to Goldmine Creek on the Anna arm and from Hunters Landing up to Little Florida on the Pamunkey arm, and behind the bridge in Terrys Run.
Lake Level- FULL POOL
Dike 3- 77
Chris Craft
CCBASSN GUIDE SERVICE
ccbassn@aol.com
540-894-6195
Anna Point Marina
Fish Tales
540-895-5900 ext 5
