Son and I got to the launch about sunup. Some guy named George was already there with his game face on.
Fished for striper for the first 1.5 hrs or so. I caught one on a shad rap. Too small to keep. (20") on Norfolk lakes. The water had cooled off about 5° from the rain yesterday, so I figured the striper would be more active, but it was not to be.
Started bait fishing, worms/minnows, and caught a decent mess of crackers and brim. Caught the obligate gar on a minnow, and a good sized catfish.
Bite slacked off, so we trolled bottom bouncers/crawler harnesses in search of perch. (yellow or white) I caught one nice white perch and another striper, and Josh caught....a....crappie? Go figure. On bottom w/nightcrawler in 17' + of water. Left about 1. Ended up keeping about a dozen decent cracker/bream and the one white perch, and the catfish pictured below.
Hopefully Tap will weigh in with his report later. Not a bad day really.

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2008 Virginia Bream Bash Champs

Aint it sumpin!? I'd swore we would have slayed the specks in trees today. But crawler rigs with bottom bouncers did well. Heck they failed me completely the last 2 rounds at Frederick. Nice Cat by the way!

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Nice looking kitty, what did it weigh? got 1 last year about 13.5 they put up great fight on lite equipment

Go figure. It was good to see you and your son. I'm very envious. Two teenage daughters, (no brothers either, three sisters) one out of High School, no son to take fishing. Enjoy your time together.

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Sounds like a pretty good day to me. Glad ya got out and had fun.

Nice Cat ShellQuacker.