Fish Citations

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Flathead Catfish

Date of Catch	Angler	Waterbody	Weight	Length
1/2/2000	Aubrey Howerton	Buggs Island Lake	27 lbs.	38
1/4/2000	Kenneth Dalton	James River	26 lbs., 08 oz.
1/8/2000	David Thompson	James River	25 lbs., 08 oz.	40
1/8/2000	Kenneth Daniel	Buggs Island Lake	32 lbs.	40
2/8/2000	Warren Cole	Buggs Island Lake	28 lbs.
2/11/2000	Kenneth Daniel	Buggs Island Lake	28 lbs.	40 1/2
2/13/2000	Kenneth Daniel	Buggs Island Lake	34 lbs.	42 3/4
2/26/2000	Elbert Dennis Jr.	James River		40
3/3/2000	William Gee	Smith Mountain Lake	29 lbs., 15 oz.
3/19/2000	Warren Cole	Buggs Island Lake	35 lbs.	42
3/25/2000	Christopher Hill	Occoquan Creek	42 lbs.	46 3/4
4/3/2000	Eugene Reaves Jr.	Dan River	25 lbs., 04 oz.
4/8/2000	Richard Stecker	James River	27 lbs.
4/11/2000	Kevin Matthews	Dan River	34 lbs.	38
4/15/2000	Charles Wolcott, Jr.	Buggs Island Lake	31 lbs., 12 oz.	40
4/21/2000	Edward Riffle	Occoquan Creek	42 lbs., 04 oz.	46
5/3/2000	James Gray Jr.	Smith Mountain Lake	26 lbs.
5/5/2000	Robert Cole	Dan River	31 lbs.
5/6/2000	James Gray Jr.	Smith Mountain Lake	25 lbs., 03 oz.
5/7/2000	Robert Jones	Dan River	34 lbs.	43
5/13/2000	Jerry Thornton	Dan River	41 lbs., 04 oz.	43
5/13/2000	Jerry Green	All Other Waters	25 lbs., 08 oz.
5/14/2000	Warren Cole	Dan River	35 lbs.	43
5/14/2000	Warren Cole	Dan River	27 lbs.
5/15/2000	Linda Puryear	Buggs Island Lake	35 lbs.	42
5/19/2000	Warren Cole	Buggs Island Lake	31 lbs., 08 oz.
5/19/2000	John Loyd, Sr.	James River	25 lbs., 08 oz.	41 3/4
5/25/2000	Jerry Pulliam	Dan River	30 lbs.
5/26/2000	William Brown, Sr.	Staunton River	25 lbs.
5/27/2000	Warren Thompson, Jr.	Occoquan Reservoir	48 lbs.	45 1/4
5/27/2000	Jerry Thornton	Dan River	34 lbs.	42
6/1/2000	Derek Mayhew	Dan River	33 lbs.	42
6/2/2000	Kevin Johnson	Dan River		42
6/2/2000	Dan Watson, Sr.	Dan River	31 lbs., 12 oz.	42
6/2/2000	Jerry Thornton	Dan River	40 lbs.	42 1/2
6/2/2000	Bobby Bates, Sr.	Dan River	31 lbs., 10 oz.	42 1/2
6/2/2000	Bobby Bates, Sr.	Dan River	26 lbs., 02 oz.	43 1/4
6/2/2000	Bobby Bates, Sr.	Dan River	28 lbs., 12 oz.	41 1/2
6/2/2000	Julian Hamlet	Staunton River	25 lbs.	36 1/4
6/3/2000	Thomas Patterson, Jr.	Dan River	28 lbs.
6/3/2000	Derek Mayhew	Dan River		40 1/4
6/3/2000	Walter Moseley	Staunton River	29 lbs., 12 oz.	40
6/4/2000	Michael Mills	Staunton River	27 lbs., 08 oz.
6/4/2000	Michael Mills	Staunton River	34 lbs., 08 oz.	41
6/4/2000	Warren Cole	Dan River	25 lbs., 08 oz.
6/4/2000	Gary Smith	Dan River	33 lbs., 08 oz.
6/4/2000	Jerry Thornton	Dan River	25 lbs., 06 oz.	34 1/2
6/4/2000	Bobby Bates, Sr.	Dan River	44 lbs., 02 oz.	47 1/2
6/5/2000	Paul Rigney	Dan River		40 1/2
6/5/2000	Derek Mayhew	Dan River		40 1/2
6/5/2000	Phillip Roark, Sr.	Dan River		40 1/2
6/8/2000	Robert Barnes	James River	25 lbs.	40
6/8/2000	Thomas Patterson, Jr.	Dan River	25 lbs., 08 oz.
6/9/2000	James Moore	Blackwater River	29 lbs.	40 1/4
6/10/2000	Jerry Thornton	Dan River	25 lbs.	35 1/2
6/10/2000	George Talbott, Jr.	Staunton River	26 lbs., 01 oz.	38
6/11/2000	Steven Dunn	Staunton River	34 lbs., 06 oz.	41
6/11/2000	Derek Mayhew	Dan River	28 lbs.	40 1/4
6/11/2000	Derek Mayhew	Dan River		40 1/2
6/14/2000	Bradley Weston	Buggs Island Lake	40 lbs., 08 oz.
6/14/2000	Christopher Gauldin	Dan River	28 lbs.	38 1/2
6/14/2000	Christopher Gauldin	Dan River	34 lbs.	39 1/2
6/16/2000	Jerry Thornton	Dan River	26 lbs.	36
6/16/2000	Jerry Thornton	Dan River	36 lbs.	41
6/17/2000	Barney Young, Jr.	Dan River	36 lbs., 08 oz.	40 1/2
6/17/2000	Gary Smith	Dan River	26 lbs.
6/20/2000	Christopher Gauldin	Dan River	37 lbs.	41
6/22/2000	Ronnie Eastwood	Dan River	25 lbs.
6/22/2000	Derek Mayhew	Dan River		40 3/4
6/22/2000	Derek Mayhew	Dan River		41 1/2
6/23/2000	Robert Bentley	Staunton River	25 lbs.
6/24/2000	Gary Smith	Dan River	25 lbs.
6/24/2000	Jeffrey Smith	Dan River	30 lbs.	40 3/4
6/24/2000	Kevin Hammock	Dan River	37 lbs., 12 oz.	43
6/25/2000	Barney Young, Jr.	Dan River	26 lbs.	38
6/25/2000	Thomas Mattox Jr.	Claytor Lake	29 lbs., 08 oz.
6/26/2000	Christopher Gauldin	Dan River	30 lbs.	38
6/27/2000	Robert Campbell	James River	26 lbs., 08 oz.
6/27/2000	Brian Yoder	Staunton River	25 lbs.
6/28/2000	Michael Wheeler	Dan River	25 lbs.
6/28/2000	George Dalton, Jr.	Staunton River	27 lbs., 09 oz.
6/29/2000	Barney Young, Jr.	Dan River	29 lbs.
6/29/2000	Christopher Gauldin	Dan River	36 lbs.	44
6/29/2000	Christopher Gauldin	Dan River	30 lbs.	36
6/29/2000	Christopher Gauldin	Dan River	28 lbs.	38
6/29/2000	Christopher Gauldin	Dan River	30 lbs.	38
6/29/2000	Lawrence Gilbert Jr.	Dan River	30 lbs.	38
6/29/2000	Larry Chattin	Dan River	26 lbs.
7/2/2000	Michael Jamerson	Dan River	30 lbs.	40 1/2
7/2/2000	Shannon Byers	James River	50 lbs., 01 oz.	43
7/3/2000	Kevin Hammock	Staunton River	31 lbs., 08 oz.	41 1/2
7/3/2000	Aaron Driskill	James River	30 lbs.
7/3/2000	Warren Cole	Dan River	27 lbs.
7/4/2000	Jerry Thornton	Dan River	27 lbs., 06 oz.	39
7/7/2000	Jerry Thornton	Dan River	28 lbs., 08 oz.	38
7/8/2000	Gary Smith	Dan River	42 lbs., 08 oz.	40 1/4
7/12/2000	James Goodman Jr.	Dan River	26 lbs.
7/13/2000	Barry Stout	Dan River	25 lbs., 03 oz.	37 1/4
7/13/2000	Jerry Grubbs	James River	27 lbs., 03 oz.	39
7/14/2000	Gary Smith	Dan River	30 lbs.
7/14/2000	Gary Smith	Dan River	29 lbs.	38
7/14/2000	Jeffrey Smith	Dan River	28 lbs., 08 oz.
7/14/2000	Jeffrey Smith	Dan River	29 lbs., 08 oz.
7/14/2000	Steven Moore	James River	27 lbs.
7/14/2000	Bruce Weaver, Sr.	James River	25 lbs., 12 oz.
7/15/2000	Sherman Calloway Jr.	All Other Waters	31 lbs., 04 oz.	42
7/15/2000	Thorton Campbell Jr.	James River	33 lbs., 08 oz.
7/16/2000	Gary Smith	Dan River	34 lbs.	38
7/17/2000	James Goodman Jr.	Dan River	28 lbs.
7/18/2000	Phillip Roark, Sr.	Dan River		40
7/20/2000	Robert Haley	Dan River	27 lbs., 02 oz.	40 1/4
7/20/2000	Robert Haley	Dan River	35 lbs., 06 oz.	41 1/2
7/21/2000	Jeffrey Smith	Dan River	30 lbs., 08 oz.
7/21/2000	Phillip Roark, Sr.	Dan River	25 lbs.	40
7/22/2000	Joseph Fowler	Claytor Lake	26 lbs., 04 oz.	40
7/22/2000	Paul Rigney	Dan River		40 1/2
7/22/2000	Paul Rigney	Dan River		41 1/4
7/22/2000	Derek Mayhew	Dan River	26 lbs.	40 1/4
7/22/2000	Derick Kemp	New River		43 1/4
7/22/2000	Russell Parker	Dan River	28 lbs.	39
7/23/2000	Eugene Reaves Jr.	Dan River	34 lbs.
7/23/2000	Eugene Reaves Jr.	Dan River	38 lbs.
7/23/2000	Carrie Browning	James River	25 lbs.	38
7/23/2000	James Goodman Jr.	Dan River	35 lbs.	41 1/2
7/24/2000	Eugene Reaves Jr.	Dan River	31 lbs.
7/26/2000	Phillip Roark, Sr.	Dan River	29 lbs., 08 oz.	41 1/2
7/27/2000	Jessica Shorter	Staunton River	28 lbs.	40
7/28/2000	James Boothe	Smith Mountain Lake	25 lbs., 04 oz.	36 1/2
8/5/2000	James Stover	Smith Mountain Lake	26 lbs., 03 oz.
8/5/2000	Jared Strickler	James River	27 lbs., 04 oz.	39 1/2
8/6/2000	Draper Mitchell Jr.	James River	35 lbs., 02 oz.	36 1/2
8/6/2000	Draper Mitchell Jr.	James River	38 lbs., 04 oz.	32 3/4
8/8/2000	Phillip Roark, Sr.	Dan River		43
8/8/2000	Nicholas Cossitt	James River	29 lbs., 05 oz.	41
8/12/2000	Jerome Adler	James River	25 lbs.	38 1/2
8/13/2000	Bobby Woolwine, Sr.	Flannagan Reservoir	25 lbs., 03 oz.	40
8/17/2000	Ryan Peck	James River	25 lbs., 10 oz.
8/19/2000	Barry Williams	Staunton River	28 lbs., 13 oz.	42
8/20/2000	Robert Eades	Staunton River	25 lbs., 05 oz.	38 3/4
8/22/2000	Gary Dickerson	Dan River	40 lbs.	44
8/22/2000	Kenneth Coffey	Mill Creek	30 lbs., 08 oz.
8/22/2000	James Hale	Smith Mountain Lake	28 lbs., 13 oz.	41
8/25/2000	Derek Mayhew	Dan River	28 lbs.	40 3/4
8/26/2000	Hugh Williams	Staunton River	38 lbs.	42
8/28/2000	James Stover	Smith Mountain Lake	25 lbs., 15 oz.	40
8/30/2000	Keith Diggs	Smith Mountain Lake	26 lbs., 01 oz.	41
8/31/2000	Teresa Roberson	Smith Mountain Lake	27 lbs., 02 oz.
9/2/2000	Clarence Logan, Jr.	Briery Creek Lake	26 lbs., 06 oz.
9/7/2000	Preston Garrett	James River	29 lbs.
9/18/2000	Rassie Wright Sr.	Claytor Lake	29 lbs.	42
9/22/2000	Kenneth Oakes	Buggs Island Lake	29 lbs.
9/24/2000	Harold Hill	Claytor Lake	43 lbs., 11 oz.	44 1/2
9/26/2000	Lonnie Spradlin	Smith Mountain Lake	30 lbs.	40
9/28/2000	Raymond Crowder, Jr.	James River		44
10/7/2000	James Gray Jr.	Smith Mountain Lake	30 lbs., 08 oz.	42
10/11/2000	James Gray Jr.	Smith Mountain Lake		40
10/15/2000	James Randolph	James River	25 lbs.
10/16/2000	Wallace Solomon	Buggs Island Lake	41 lbs.	41
10/21/2000	Bruce Barbour	James River	26 lbs.	40
10/22/2000	West Donley	Occoquan Reservoir	32 lbs.	43
11/18/2000	Walter Martin	All Other Waters	37 lbs.
11/19/2000	Thomas Rainey	Lake Chesdin	30 lbs., 08 oz.	40
11/29/2000	Donald Mountcastle	Smith Mountain Lake	26 lbs., 06 oz.	41 1/2
12/2/2000	Sherman McKenna	James River	28 lbs.	42
12/3/2000	Joshua Mays	James River	27 lbs., 08 oz.
12/3/2000	Sherman McKenna	James River	25 lbs.	39
12/3/2000	Sherman McKenna	James River	28 lbs.	40
12/4/2000	Jimmy Hendricks	James River	27 lbs.	39 1/2
12/6/2000	Sherman McKenna	James River		40 1/4
12/6/2000	Nathan Hargis	James River	30 lbs., 08 oz.	39 1/2
12/6/2000	Nathan Hargis	James River	25 lbs.	38 1/2
12/7/2000	Shannon Middleton	James River		40
12/8/2000	Shannon Middleton	James River	30 lbs.	43 3/4
12/8/2000	Nathan Hargis	James River	25 lbs., 12 oz.	39
12/9/2000	Anthony Martin Jr.	James River	28 lbs.	40
12/9/2000	Sherman McKenna	James River	29 lbs.	42
12/12/2000	Mark Dalton, Sr.	James River	25 lbs., 03 oz.	39 1/4
12/14/2000	Roy Burks	James River	26 lbs.	39 1/2
12/16/2000	Kevin Patterson	Smith Mountain Lake	31 lbs., 08 oz.	43
12/18/2000	Nathan Hargis	James River	25 lbs., 04 oz.	39 1/2
12/21/2000	Nathan Hargis	James River	29 lbs., 08 oz.	42
12/29/2000	Mark Dalton, Sr.	James River	26 lbs., 04 oz.	40 1/4

Years Available

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