Fish Citations

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Channel Catfish

Date of Catch	Angler	Waterbody	Weight	Length
1/9/2003	Travis Osborne	South Fork Shenandoah River		30
1/9/2003	Travis Osborne	South Fork Shenandoah River		30 1/2
2/2/2003	Allen Falls	Chickahominy River		30 1/4
2/14/2003	Richard Campbell	Potomac River	18 lbs., 08 oz.	33
2/28/2003	Jerry Thornton	Private Pond	12 lbs., 11 oz.	31
3/5/2003	Gene Mullinax	South Fork Shenandoah River	12 lbs., 08 oz.	31
3/6/2003	Don Ehlers	South Fork Shenandoah River	13 lbs., 04 oz.	31
3/22/2003	Theodore Kesler	Shenandoah River	12 lbs., 05 oz.	30
3/22/2003	James Corbin	Shenandoah River	13 lbs., 03 oz.	30 1/2
3/23/2003	Dwayne Dovel	Shenandoah River	15 lbs., 02 oz.	33
3/29/2003	Ronald Marrin, Jr.	Private Pond	14 lbs., 02 oz.	32
3/29/2003	Michael Shifflett	South Fork Shenandoah River	17 lbs., 05 oz.	34
3/29/2003	Charles Partin	Private Pond	12 lbs., 04 oz.	31 1/2
4/3/2003	Frankie Morris	Shenandoah River	14 lbs., 04 oz.
4/4/2003	Hudson Jones	James River	15 lbs.	31
4/4/2003	Frances Vermilyea	Private Pond	12 lbs., 08 oz.	32
4/5/2003	Delmas Layden	Beaverdam Swamp Reservoir	12 lbs.
4/12/2003	William Pappas	Lake Prince		30 1/4
4/12/2003	Dwayne Dovel	Shenandoah River	14 lbs., 12 oz.	31
4/16/2003	Shannon Jenkins	South Fork Shenandoah River		30 1/2
4/16/2003	Ron Southwick	Burke Lake	14 lbs., 05 oz.	32 1/2
4/16/2003	Michael Crosby	Lake Curtis	13 lbs., 09 oz.	31
4/17/2003	Christopher Watts	Chickahominy Lake	14 lbs., 12 oz.
4/17/2003	John Payne	Back Bay	14 lbs., 03 oz.	32
4/17/2003	John Payne	Back Bay	12 lbs.	30 1/2
4/17/2003	Dwayne Dovel	Shenandoah River	13 lbs., 10 oz.	31 1/2
4/18/2003	Edward Joachim, II	Chickahominy Lake	12 lbs., 09 oz.
4/22/2003	John Payne	Back Bay	12 lbs., 01 oz.	30
4/25/2003	James Shrader	James River	14 lbs.	32
4/25/2003	Robert Horne	James River	14 lbs.	30
4/27/2003	Tiffanie Frazier	Private Pond	23 lbs.	34
4/27/2003	James Martin	James River	25 lbs., 04 oz.	31
4/28/2003	Thomas Pearce Jr.	Lake Gaston	12 lbs.	31 1/4
4/29/2003	Michael Shifflett	South Fork Shenandoah River	12 lbs., 03 oz.
4/30/2003	Duane Peverill	Private Pond	18 lbs., 10 oz.	34
4/30/2003	Tony Alford	Claytor Lake	12 lbs.
5/2/2003	Dwayne Dovel	South Fork Shenandoah River	15 lbs., 03 oz.	31
5/3/2003	William SanSoucie	Pamunkey River	15 lbs.	32 3/4
5/3/2003	Aaron Hosey	James River		30 1/2
5/4/2003	William Robertson	New River	13 lbs., 04 oz.
5/5/2003	Dwayne Dovel	South Fork Shenandoah River	12 lbs., 02 oz.	30 1/4
5/9/2003	Mary Harlow	Mattaponi River	19 lbs., 11 oz.	32 1/4
5/13/2003	Paul Moore	Lake Gaston		32
5/13/2003	Bob Hall	Private Pond		31 1/2
5/13/2003	Michael Shifflett	South Fork Shenandoah River	14 lbs., 02 oz.	31
5/15/2003	Franklin Dalton	Dan River	18 lbs.	35
5/15/2003	Michael Ustica	Rivanna River		31
5/15/2003	Justin Horton	New River	12 lbs., 04 oz.	30
5/17/2003	Paul Moore	Lake Gaston		36
5/20/2003	Dwayne Dovel	Shenandoah River		30 1/2
5/22/2003	Chad Webb	New River	12 lbs.	31
5/22/2003	Dwayne Dovel	Shenandoah River	12 lbs.	30 1/2
5/22/2003	Dwayne Dovel	Shenandoah River	15 lbs., 03 oz.	32 1/4
5/26/2003	Hansford Arnold, Sr.	New River	14 lbs.	30 1/4
5/28/2003	Vincent Thomas	Burke Lake	17 lbs., 09 oz.	33 1/4
5/31/2003	Charles Stearn	Potomac River	15 lbs.	30
5/31/2003	Louise Dean	New River	14 lbs.	30 1/2
5/31/2003	Justin Horton	New River		30 1/4
5/31/2003	Justin Horton	New River		30
5/31/2003	Justin Horton	New River	13 lbs., 07 oz.	31
6/3/2003	David Johnson	Claytor Lake	13 lbs., 04 oz.
6/7/2003	Richard Flinn	Potomac River	12 lbs.
6/7/2003	Zachary Flinn	Potomac River	14 lbs.
6/7/2003	Arnold Thorne	New River	17 lbs.	37 1/2
6/8/2003	Richard Flinn	Potomac River	12 lbs.
6/9/2003	Jonathan Dalton	Claytor Lake	14 lbs., 04 oz.
6/10/2003	James White	Buggs Island Lake	16 lbs.
6/14/2003	Ricky Simmons Sr.	James River	12 lbs.	30 1/2
6/14/2003	Richard Flinn	Potomac River	15 lbs.
6/15/2003	Richard Flinn	Potomac River	12 lbs., 08 oz.
6/15/2003	Richard Flinn	Potomac River	13 lbs.
6/15/2003	Richard Flinn	Potomac River	12 lbs.
6/15/2003	Katie Rhodes	James River		33
6/15/2003	Kenneth Cosby	Swift Creek Reservoir	18 lbs., 11 oz.	34 1/2
6/18/2003	Matthew Haskins	Lake Gaston	12 lbs., 09 oz.	30 1/2
6/19/2003	Dwayne Dovel	Shenandoah River		30 1/4
6/20/2003	Nathan Street	Claytor Lake		31 1/2
6/22/2003	Andrew Anderson	Claytor Lake	16 lbs.	32
6/22/2003	Roger Lee Wright II	Claytor Lake		31
6/22/2003	John Thompson	Dan River		31
6/22/2003	Paul Moore	Lake Gaston		30
6/23/2003	Joseph Capps	Diascund Reservoir		31 1/4
6/23/2003	Todd Moore	James River	23 lbs.	32
6/24/2003	Michael Crosby	Lake Brittle	21 lbs., 04 oz.	36 1/4
6/25/2003	Clarence Lawson	Claytor Lake	12 lbs., 04 oz.	30
6/26/2003	Louise Dean	New River		30
6/29/2003	Michael Brummitt	Private Pond	19 lbs., 08 oz.	36 1/2
7/5/2003	Joseph Capps	Chickahominy River		30 1/2
7/5/2003	Hank Meyerhoeffer	Private Pond	15 lbs., 14 oz.	32 1/2
7/5/2003	Curtis Eggleston	Private Pond		31
7/7/2003	Justin Jewell	Claytor Lake	13 lbs., 12 oz.	30
7/14/2003	Steven Perez, Jr.	James River		30
7/25/2003	Nathan Street	Claytor Lake		31 1/2
7/25/2003	Michael Shifflett	South Fork Shenandoah River	13 lbs., 03 oz.	31
7/25/2003	Charles Bennett, Sr.	James River		33
7/26/2003	Richard Curtis	Chandlers Mill Pond		30 1/2
7/26/2003	Dennis Cox	Chickahominy River	14 lbs., 12 oz.	31 1/2
7/27/2003	Michael Freeman	Staunton River	15 lbs., 02 oz.	35
7/28/2003	Scott Woodson	Lake Monticello		31
8/2/2003	Jerry Harper	Claytor Lake	12 lbs., 12 oz.	31
8/3/2003	James Dooley	Lake Moomaw	15 lbs., 08 oz.	31
8/11/2003	Dwayne Dovel	Shenandoah River	17 lbs., 01 oz.	33
8/12/2003	David Barnes	Lake Meade	13 lbs., 08 oz.	33
8/15/2003	Tim Spolarich	Claytor Lake		30
8/15/2003	Jay Kinch	All Other Waters		31
8/16/2003	Randall Brooks Sr.	James River	14 lbs., 08 oz.	31 3/4
8/16/2003	Jimmy Dovel	Shenandoah River	12 lbs., 03 oz.	31
8/19/2003	Michael Helsley, Jr.	North Fork Shenandoah River	15 lbs.	31 1/2
8/19/2003	Timothy Childress	Private Pond	13 lbs.
8/20/2003	Sylvia Wright	Claytor Lake		30
8/20/2003	Rassie Wright Sr.	Claytor Lake		30
8/21/2003	Tim Spolarich	Claytor Lake		30 1/4
8/21/2003	Daniel Landes	James River	12 lbs., 08 oz.	31 1/4
8/21/2003	Kouassi Soman	Burke Lake		34
8/24/2003	Tyler Rankin	Private Pond	12 lbs.	31
8/27/2003	Marilyn Edwards	Claytor Lake	16 lbs.	31
8/28/2003	Kouassi Soman	Burke Lake	22 lbs.	36 1/2
8/30/2003	Jeremy Lang	Shenandoah River	12 lbs., 08 oz.	30 1/2
8/30/2003	Jeremy Lang	Shenandoah River		30 1/2
8/30/2003	William Vidallon	Lake Prince		30
8/30/2003	Justin Witten	Claytor Lake		30
9/1/2003	Terrance Edwards	Claytor Lake	14 lbs.	31
9/4/2003	Timothy King, Jr.	Rural Retreat Lake		30 1/2
9/6/2003	Basil Harper, Jr.	Claytor Lake	12 lbs., 03 oz.	32
9/6/2003	Luke Pfister	Lake Moomaw	13 lbs., 05 oz.	30
9/6/2003	Jerry Harper	Claytor Lake		30 3/4
9/7/2003	Tim Spolarich	Claytor Lake		30
9/8/2003	William Harris	Private Pond		36
9/8/2003	Isaac Corbitt, Jr.	Private Pond	15 lbs., 04 oz.	30
9/12/2003	Jerry Harper	Claytor Lake		30 1/4
9/12/2003	Anthony Carr	Claytor Lake	12 lbs., 10 oz.	30 1/2
9/12/2003	Charles Fincham, Jr.	Private Pond	12 lbs.
9/16/2003	Jerry Bullins, Sr.	Claytor Lake	13 lbs.
9/20/2003	Thomas Hardy	Claytor Lake	14 lbs.	32
9/26/2003	William Ware, Jr.	Briery Creek Lake	28 lbs.	42
9/28/2003	Gary Harmon	Claytor Lake		30 1/2
9/28/2003	Kouassi Soman	Burke Lake	21 lbs.	35
10/15/2003	Gregory Morris	All Other Waters	14 lbs., 12 oz.	31
10/15/2003	Walter Walker	All Other Waters	13 lbs., 08 oz.	30
10/18/2003	Albert Browne	Chickahominy River	20 lbs., 07 oz.
10/18/2003	Stephen Miklandric	Burnt Mills Lake	12 lbs., 02 oz.	31
10/19/2003	Dwayne Harris	Chickahominy River	12 lbs.
10/19/2003	Paul Moore	Lake Gaston	25 lbs.
10/25/2003	Edgar Wilson Jr.	Potomac River	14 lbs., 08 oz.	31 1/4
10/25/2003	Michael Ingram	Private Pond	14 lbs.	31
10/25/2003	David Johnson	Claytor Lake	12 lbs., 04 oz.
10/26/2003	David Johnson	Claytor Lake	14 lbs., 02 oz.
11/4/2003	William Brandon	James River	18 lbs., 08 oz.	34
11/5/2003	Gary Harmon	Claytor Lake		31 1/2
11/11/2003	Dwayne Dovel	Shenandoah River	13 lbs., 05 oz.	30
11/11/2003	Charles Blum	Beaverdam Swamp Reservoir	12 lbs., 08 oz.	31
11/17/2003	G. F. Brace	Appomattox River	12 lbs., 15 oz.	31 1/4
11/17/2003	John Woods	Holiday Lake	14 lbs., 04 oz.	32
11/22/2003	Ricky Simmons Sr.	James River	25 lbs., 15 oz.	37 1/2
11/22/2003	Ricky Simmons Sr.	James River	22 lbs., 02 oz.	34
11/29/2003	Ginny Petruska	Private Pond	14 lbs., 03 oz.	31 1/4
12/28/2003	Kenneth Viar Jr.	James River	17 lbs.	36
12/28/2003	Douglas Purcell	Dragon Run	21 lbs., 05 oz.	34 1/4

Years Available

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