Fish Citations

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Channel Catfish

Date of Catch	Angler	Waterbody	Weight	Length
1/29/2002	Charles Blum	Beaverdam Swamp Reservoir	16 lbs., 08 oz.	32 3/4
2/6/2002	Kevin Shepperson	James River	14 lbs., 09 oz.
2/9/2002	Frank Beavers Jr.	Rappahannock River	15 lbs., 02 oz.	32
2/16/2002	Maurice Brouillette	Back Bay	17 lbs., 08 oz.	32
3/8/2002	Charles Blum	Beaverdam Swamp Reservoir	15 lbs., 04 oz.	30 1/4
3/9/2002	Gordon Cannon	Hells Point Creek	14 lbs.
3/13/2002	Theodore Kesler	James River	12 lbs., 04 oz.	30 1/2
3/16/2002	Donald Pilgrim	James River	12 lbs., 12 oz.
3/18/2002	Richard Lavender	Hells Point Creek	12 lbs., 12 oz.	30
3/18/2002	Richard Lavender	Hells Point Creek	13 lbs., 12 oz.	31 1/4
3/18/2002	Richard Lavender	Back Bay	13 lbs.	30
3/18/2002	Richard Lavender	Back Bay	14 lbs.
3/18/2002	Richard Lavender	Back Bay	13 lbs., 04 oz.
3/23/2002	John Jensen	Rappahannock River		30 1/2
3/24/2002	Michael Shifflett	South Fork Shenandoah River	12 lbs., 09 oz.	30
3/27/2002	Shane Eaves	Back Bay	15 lbs., 14 oz.	34 1/4
3/30/2002	William Gordon Jr.	Burke Lake	15 lbs., 02 oz.	30
4/1/2002	Kenneth Robinson	Private Pond	12 lbs.	30
4/2/2002	Ronald Haney Sr.	Chickahominy Lake	14 lbs.	30
4/2/2002	David Housden	Shenandoah River		30
4/2/2002	David Housden	Shenandoah River	13 lbs., 11 oz.	30
4/3/2002	Clyde Nicholson	South Fork Shenandoah River	14 lbs., 05 oz.	30
4/6/2002	Clabron Roberts, Jr.	James River	15 lbs.	32 1/2
4/9/2002	Albert Browne	Chickahominy River	15 lbs., 08 oz.
4/11/2002	John Jensen	Potomac River		30 1/4
4/13/2002	Steven Phillips	James River	15 lbs.	33
4/13/2002	Charles Haupt Jr.	James River	13 lbs., 05 oz.	31
4/15/2002	Ronnie Davis Jr.	Chickahominy Lake	14 lbs.	30
4/15/2002	Bobby Rosenbaum	Claytor Lake	12 lbs.
4/15/2002	Timothy Hammock	Buggs Island Lake	15 lbs., 08 oz.	34
4/18/2002	William Brandon	Chickahominy River	13 lbs., 08 oz.	31
4/19/2002	Barry Hunter	Little River		30 1/4
4/20/2002	Chapman Billings	Claytor Lake	18 lbs.	33 1/4
4/20/2002	Jason DeLong	Private Pond		35
4/23/2002	Louise Dean	New River	13 lbs., 08 oz.	32
4/26/2002	Tim Spolarich	Claytor Lake	12 lbs.
4/26/2002	Tim Spolarich	Claytor Lake	12 lbs.	30
4/26/2002	James Funkhouser Jr.	South Fork Shenandoah River	17 lbs., 04 oz.	33
4/26/2002	Kenneth Dalton	Mill Creek	14 lbs., 08 oz.
4/27/2002	Brian Brant	Private Pond		31 1/4
4/27/2002	Larry Taylor	Pamunkey River	17 lbs., 05 oz.
4/27/2002	Geoffrey Filer	Little Creek Reservoir	15 lbs., 08 oz.	32
4/27/2002	Wendi Odum	Claytor Lake	13 lbs.	31 1/2
4/27/2002	George Thomas, Jr.	Potomac River	12 lbs., 04 oz.
4/29/2002	Kenneth Sanders	Claytor Lake	14 lbs., 12 oz.	31
5/3/2002	David Arbaugh	All Other Waters	12 lbs., 04 oz.	30 1/2
5/6/2002	Susan Francis	Bannister River	12 lbs., 12 oz.	30
5/6/2002	Rassie Wright Sr.	Claytor Lake		30 1/2
5/7/2002	Jason Ford	South Fork Shenandoah River	14 lbs., 06 oz.
5/7/2002	Louise Dean	New River		30
5/7/2002	Joshua Widmer	South Fork Holston River		30 1/2
5/9/2002	Michael Breeden	Potomac River	12 lbs., 04 oz.	32
5/11/2002	James Francis	Bannister River	14 lbs., 07 oz.	31 3/4
5/11/2002	Timothy Conley, Jr.	Shenandoah River		30
5/17/2002	Gary Moon, Jr.	Private Pond	14 lbs., 07 oz.
5/18/2002	Kevin Bullock, Jr.	Private Pond	13 lbs.	31
5/20/2002	Clabron Roberts, Jr.	James River	14 lbs.	30 1/2
5/20/2002	Clabron Roberts, Jr.	James River	16 lbs., 04 oz.	32 1/2
5/25/2002	Bobby Rosenbaum	Claytor Lake	12 lbs., 06 oz.
5/25/2002	Aubrey Scruggs Jr.	Staunton River	14 lbs., 08 oz.
5/26/2002	Roger Burnett	Dan River	16 lbs., 04 oz.	32
5/31/2002	Lynwood Spencer	Private Pond	12 lbs.	31
6/1/2002	Randy Horst, Sr.	Shenandoah River	16 lbs.	35 3/4
6/1/2002	Clyde Eppard, Jr.	All Other Waters		31 1/4
6/2/2002	Karen Rogers	Claytor Lake		32
6/4/2002	Clabron Roberts, Jr.	Potomac River	17 lbs., 04 oz.	36
6/4/2002	Clabron Roberts, Jr.	Potomac River	16 lbs., 12 oz.	36
6/4/2002	Clabron Roberts, Jr.	Potomac River	16 lbs., 04 oz.	34
6/4/2002	David Ward	Private Pond	12 lbs., 08 oz.
6/12/2002	Michael Wade	Appomattox River	15 lbs., 08 oz.	33 1/2
6/13/2002	Cody Wallace	Claytor Lake		30 1/2
6/17/2002	Malcolm Ayers	Claytor Lake	13 lbs.
6/17/2002	James Phelps	Buggs Island Lake	12 lbs., 12 oz.	32
6/21/2002	Michael Wade	Appomattox River	14 lbs., 03 oz.	32
6/21/2002	Larry Jordan	Clinch River		30 1/4
6/22/2002	David Johnson	All Other Waters	12 lbs., 09 oz.
6/23/2002	Patrick Barry	Lake Smith	15 lbs., 03 oz.	31
6/24/2002	William Brandon	James River	14 lbs.	32
6/26/2002	Michael Wade	Appomattox River	13 lbs., 07 oz.	31 1/4
6/26/2002	Bernard Lewis	Lake Frederick		32 1/2
6/28/2002	Michael Wade	Appomattox River	13 lbs.	31
6/28/2002	Harold Brown	Shenandoah River	23 lbs., 12 oz.	35
6/30/2002	James Ervin	Private Pond	12 lbs.
6/30/2002	Wayne Tweedy	Buggs Island Lake	17 lbs., 01 oz.	35
6/30/2002	Timothy Gorde	Mattaponi River		32
7/1/2002	Mark Maddox	Smith Mountain Lake		34
7/5/2002	Jeffrey Boyer	North Fork Shenandoah River		31 1/2
7/5/2002	John Carneal	Pamunkey River	14 lbs., 12 oz.	30 1/2
7/5/2002	Randall Muir	Claytor Lake	13 lbs.	30
7/5/2002	Wesley Carneal	Pamunkey River	16 lbs.	31
7/5/2002	Wesley Carneal	Pamunkey River	13 lbs., 12 oz.	32 1/2
7/5/2002	Wesley Carneal	Pamunkey River	17 lbs.	32
7/7/2002	Roger Moschler	James River	16 lbs., 04 oz.	38 1/2
7/7/2002	Eugene Keene, Sr.	New River	13 lbs., 02 oz.	31 1/2
7/7/2002	Joseph Weitz	Mattaponi River		34
7/12/2002	Steven Sullivan	Private Pond		30 1/4
7/12/2002	Erik Heaster	Chickahominy River	16 lbs., 07 oz.	37 1/4
7/13/2002	Wanda Hudson	Buggs Island Lake	15 lbs.	33
7/14/2002	David Hansen	Lake Smith	18 lbs., 10 oz.	36
7/14/2002	David Hansen	Lake Smith	15 lbs., 06 oz.	34
7/14/2002	William Bain, II	Private Pond	18 lbs., 04 oz.	30 1/2
7/15/2002	David Hansen	Lake Smith	25 lbs., 02 oz.	40
7/18/2002	Michael Burns	Private Pond	14 lbs.	32 3/4
7/20/2002	David Johnson	Claytor Lake	13 lbs., 12 oz.	31
7/20/2002	David Johnson	Claytor Lake	14 lbs., 04 oz.	31
7/20/2002	Gary Firebaugh	Private Pond	18 lbs., 08 oz.	31
7/20/2002	Lynwood Spencer	Private Pond	12 lbs., 04 oz.	30
7/21/2002	Tim Spolarich	Claytor Lake		30
7/22/2002	Rigoberto Ruiz	Claytor Lake	14 lbs., 03 oz.	30
7/23/2002	Kenneth Dalton	Mill Creek	15 lbs., 02 oz.	32
7/23/2002	Dallas Jewell	Claytor Lake	12 lbs., 08 oz.	30 1/2
7/25/2002	William Brandon	James River	18 lbs.	34
7/27/2002	Mark Woodward	Buggs Island Lake		31
7/27/2002	Ronald Marrin, Jr.	James River	16 lbs., 02 oz.	32 1/4
7/27/2002	Michael White	Claytor Lake	12 lbs., 12 oz.	30
7/28/2002	David Hansen	Lake Smith	12 lbs., 06 oz.	31
7/28/2002	Michael Johnson	Western Branch Reservoir	13 lbs., 08 oz.	33 1/2
7/28/2002	Rassie Wright Sr.	Claytor Lake	12 lbs., 14 oz.	32
7/31/2002	Ralph Ballard	Buggs Island Lake	15 lbs.	31
8/1/2002	Russell Bennett	James River	15 lbs.	32
8/2/2002	James Funkhouser Jr.	South Fork Shenandoah River		30
8/4/2002	Scott Spencer	Private Pond	17 lbs., 08 oz.	30 1/2
8/4/2002	Rassie Wright Sr.	Claytor Lake		30
8/5/2002	Dallas Jewell	Claytor Lake	12 lbs., 02 oz.	30 1/2
8/5/2002	Darrell Cox	Sandy River Reservoir	12 lbs., 09 oz.	30 1/2
8/5/2002	Bo Harris	Private Pond	13 lbs., 08 oz.	32
8/9/2002	Charles Clear	Chickahominy Lake	12 lbs., 12 oz.
8/9/2002	Christopher Timberlake, Sr.	James River	35 lbs.	35
8/9/2002	Mark Dalton, Sr.	Mill Creek	12 lbs., 03 oz.	30 1/2
8/10/2002	Michael Johnson	Western Branch Reservoir	13 lbs.	32
8/10/2002	Clinton Harrell Jr.	Claytor Lake		30
8/10/2002	Michial Neal	Private Pond		30 1/4
8/13/2002	Dallas Jewell	Claytor Lake	12 lbs., 08 oz.	30
8/14/2002	Tim Spolarich	Claytor Lake	12 lbs.	30
8/16/2002	Marke Irby	Private Pond	13 lbs., 08 oz.
8/17/2002	Mark Graves	Potomac River	12 lbs., 06 oz.
8/19/2002	James Huckstep	Private Pond	20 lbs., 08 oz.	32
8/22/2002	Rassie Wright Sr.	Claytor Lake		30 1/2
8/22/2002	Gary Cope	Claytor Lake	12 lbs., 04 oz.
8/22/2002	Thomas Moore	Diascund Reservoir	17 lbs., 12 oz.	32
8/23/2002	Robert Jimerson Jr.	James River	15 lbs.	34
8/24/2002	Casey Griggs	Private Pond		30
8/26/2002	Ricky Poston, Sr.	Amelia Lake	14 lbs., 04 oz.	30
8/27/2002	Dwayne Dovel	Shenandoah River	14 lbs., 08 oz.	35
8/29/2002	Matthew Alford	Lake Gaston	26 lbs.	35
8/29/2002	Rassie Wright Sr.	Claytor Lake		31 1/2
8/31/2002	Rassie Wright Sr.	Claytor Lake		30 1/2
8/31/2002	David Johnson	Claytor Lake	12 lbs., 15 oz.
9/1/2002	John Payne	Lake Smith	12 lbs., 08 oz.	33
9/1/2002	Joshua Hopkins	Claytor Lake		30 1/4
9/1/2002	Paul Yonts	Private Pond	12 lbs., 08 oz.
9/2/2002	Seth Dalton	Claytor Lake	12 lbs., 03 oz.	30 1/2
9/4/2002	John Andres	Lake Curtis	14 lbs., 04 oz.	30
9/7/2002	Gregory Green	Douthat Lake	15 lbs., 03 oz.	33
9/8/2002	Michael Hanky, Sr.	James River	36 lbs.	46
9/9/2002	Stephen Cromer, Sr.	Claytor Lake	13 lbs., 11 oz.	31
9/10/2002	Lewis Hardbower, III	Potomac River	20 lbs., 08 oz.	34 1/2
9/10/2002	Rassie Wright Sr.	Claytor Lake		30 1/2
9/12/2002	Gene Amstutz	Private Pond		30 1/4
9/12/2002	Estle Hawkins	Claytor Lake	14 lbs., 04 oz.	32
9/13/2002	Dallas Jewell	Claytor Lake	12 lbs., 10 oz.	31
9/16/2002	Dallas Jewell	Claytor Lake	12 lbs., 14 oz.	31 1/4
9/17/2002	Lewis Hardbower, III	Potomac River	17 lbs., 09 oz.	34
9/17/2002	Matt Mathes	Potomac River	24 lbs.	34
9/18/2002	Shannon Jenkins	South Fork Shenandoah River	12 lbs., 08 oz.	31
9/21/2002	David Johnson	Claytor Lake	14 lbs., 04 oz.
9/21/2002	Matthew Gray	James River		31
9/21/2002	Justin Witten	Claytor Lake		30
9/23/2002	Otis Toler	Motts Run Reservoir		31
9/23/2002	Thomas Lawrence, Sr.	Claytor Lake	13 lbs., 14 oz.	31
9/28/2002	Mark Leathers	Waller Mill Reservoir	13 lbs., 02 oz.	31
9/29/2002	Thomas Dennis, Sr.	New River	12 lbs.	31
9/29/2002	Lanny Sparks, Sr.	Claytor Lake	14 lbs., 12 oz.	33 1/2
10/4/2002	Jeffrey Mills	Shenandoah River		30 3/4
10/5/2002	James Fields	Claytor Lake		30 3/4
10/6/2002	John Fox	Private Pond	13 lbs., 08 oz.
10/6/2002	Charles Thomas	Private Pond	14 lbs., 13 oz.	31 1/2
10/6/2002	Gary Harmon	Claytor Lake		30 1/4
10/6/2002	Frances Vermilyea	Private Pond	12 lbs., 03 oz.	30 1/2
10/8/2002	Gary Harmon	Claytor Lake		32 1/4
10/12/2002	James Sarver	Claytor Lake	16 lbs., 12 oz.	33 3/4
10/12/2002	Dallas Jewell	Claytor Lake		30
10/17/2002	Toby Hines	Private Pond		30 1/2
10/19/2002	John Tingler	Private Pond		32 1/2
10/20/2002	Benjamin Davis	Pamunkey River	12 lbs., 03 oz.	30
10/20/2002	Faron Gardner	Claytor Lake		30
10/22/2002	William Hill	Buggs Island Lake	15 lbs.	32
10/22/2002	Joey Liles	Private Pond	13 lbs., 08 oz.	33
10/26/2002	Willie Marbra	Lake Whitehurst	12 lbs., 08 oz.	32
10/30/2002	Stephen Johnson	Shenandoah River		31 1/4
11/3/2002	Roy Cook, Jr.	Chickahominy Lake	12 lbs.	32
11/7/2002	Thomas Orcutt	James River	18 lbs.
11/8/2002	Corey Smith	Private Pond		30 1/2
11/9/2002	Billy Austin	Lake Gaston	12 lbs., 09 oz.	31 1/2
11/11/2002	Ronald Beaber	Private Pond	12 lbs., 08 oz.	32 1/2
11/15/2002	Lanny Sparks, Sr.	Claytor Lake	12 lbs., 01 oz.	31 3/4
11/17/2002	Jarrett Lafferty	Private Pond	15 lbs., 05 oz.	32 1/2
12/12/2002	Brian Crawford	Dan River		30
12/14/2002	Travis Osborne	Shenandoah River		30 1/4
12/18/2002	Brian Crawford	Dan River		30
12/20/2002	John Lukomski III	James River		31 1/4
12/21/2002	Don Ehlers	South Fork Shenandoah River		32
12/23/2002	Stephen Johnson	Shenandoah River		30 1/4

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