Lake Anna _ Feb 8th

Thanks to all for your support and welcomes to the forum. I hope to go again on Tuesday.

I'm new here so if I do something that I'm not suppose to just let me know. I just started fishing Lake Anna. I'm trying to figure out the crappie here and haven't had much luck. Can anyone tell me where I need t be at to find them? I keep hearing upper lake but I'm not sure where that is. I usually put in at christopher run. I'm going out tomorrow (for my birthday) to see if I can find them. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Welcome. I've only been on Anna twice in my life and both times for stripers. But bridge pickings are a great place to start a search in winter or summer. Perfect structure and normally provide plenty of depth. Now they might be at 3' or 15', but I'd bet there are some there. Bridge pillings also give a great, defined sun/shade line when the fish do come up. Something the like baits moving into the Shad, sometimes they hammer them when they hit the sunny side. Ole Dave at Buggs Island proved that to me.

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Originally Posted by Ranger690

Bridge pillings also give a great, defined sun/shade line when the fish do come up. Something the like baits moving into the Shad, sometimes they hammer them when they hit the sunny side. Ole Dave at Buggs Island proved that to me.

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I found this true last year on the hot side of Anna. Not crappie, but we hammered the LM on one of the canal bridges two days in a row doing the exact thing you mentioned. Fishing soft jerk type baits they would get destroyed as soon as they left the shade of the bridge and hit the sunny water.

Stitch, sorry for the late reply but ive been working the past couple of days long hours. I have been catching a lot fish infront of tims restaurant in the north anna arm of the lake. Tha but this week they had moved on probably to shallower water and I didn't find them again. I figure they were I In transition. However they were biting small minnows and electric blue jigs pretty good. I went twice this week and nothing much but small crappie. White perch are really hitting blood worms.

Never fished Anna But I would look in the backs of the creeks and see if there are shad flicking on the surface start there. Also the fish turn on after 3 pm in the late winter. Some of my best days were in feb and fishing 3 ft in 5 feet of water. Good luck!!!