Fish Citations

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Flathead Catfish

Date of Catch	Angler	Waterbody	Weight	Length
2/10/2002	William Robertson	New River		40
2/17/2002	Warren Cole	All Other Waters	34 lbs.
3/4/2002	Christopher Maye	Chickahominy River	30 lbs., 07 oz.
3/8/2002	Matthew McMillan	Buggs Island Lake	45 lbs.	44 1/4
3/30/2002	Keith Wall	Buggs Island Lake	40 lbs.	44 1/2
3/30/2002	Jerry Thornton	Dan River	35 lbs., 07 oz.	40 3/4
4/1/2002	Thomas Francis Jr.	Buggs Island Lake	26 lbs., 10 oz.
4/1/2002	Thomas Francis Jr.	Buggs Island Lake	25 lbs., 07 oz.
4/2/2002	Kenneth Reddle	Occoquan Reservoir	32 lbs., 07 oz.	42
4/6/2002	Garland Guill Jr.	Buggs Island Lake	39 lbs., 08 oz.	45 1/2
4/13/2002	Mickey Gray	Dan River	27 lbs., 04 oz.
4/14/2002	James Moon	Staunton River	32 lbs.	41
4/16/2002	Leroy Johnson	Buggs Island Lake	45 lbs.	43
4/19/2002	Gary Smith	Buggs Island Lake	32 lbs.
4/19/2002	Landon Mason	Buggs Island Lake	39 lbs., 08 oz.	44 1/2
4/19/2002	William Price	Buggs Island Lake	30 lbs.
4/20/2002	Thomas Newton	Buggs Island Lake	29 lbs., 07 oz.	40
4/20/2002	Billy Boatman, Sr.	All Other Waters		41 1/2
4/20/2002	William Gingras, III	Dan River	30 lbs., 09 oz.	41 1/2
4/20/2002	Gary Smith	Buggs Island Lake	38 lbs.	40
4/21/2002	Josh Mull	Buggs Island Lake	25 lbs., 04 oz.
4/21/2002	James Mayhew	Dan River	39 lbs., 12 oz.
4/22/2002	Amy Atkinson	Dan River	30 lbs., 09 oz.	41 1/2
4/26/2002	Reginald Matthews	Dan River	31 lbs., 08 oz.
4/26/2002	Jerry Thornton	Dan River	32 lbs.	41 1/4
4/26/2002	Charles Campbell	Buggs Island Lake	46 lbs.
4/27/2002	Thomas Newton	Buggs Island Lake	25 lbs., 11 oz.
4/28/2002	Julian Hamlet	Buggs Island Lake	27 lbs.
4/29/2002	James Martin	Dan River	32 lbs.	42
5/3/2002	Christopher Saunders	Buggs Island Lake	25 lbs.
5/3/2002	Jerry Thornton	Dan River	34 lbs.	42
5/3/2002	Mickey Gray	Dan River	25 lbs.
5/3/2002	Gene Woodruff	Buggs Island Lake	41 lbs.	42
5/4/2002	Bobby Davis, Sr.	Staunton River	38 lbs.	52
5/4/2002	Kenneth Willis	James River	32 lbs.	43 1/2
5/6/2002	Paul Rigney	Dan River	38 lbs.	43 1/2
5/6/2002	Paul Rigney	Dan River	28 lbs.	41 3/4
5/8/2002	Michael Wheeler	Dan River	28 lbs., 08 oz.	44
5/8/2002	Johnnie Womack, Jr.	Dan River	30 lbs.
5/10/2002	Walter Puckette, III	Staunton River	27 lbs., 06 oz.
5/11/2002	Jeffrey Smith	Dan River	27 lbs.
5/13/2002	Barry Carr	Dan River	44 lbs., 01 oz.
5/14/2002	Barry Carr	Dan River	38 lbs., 03 oz.
5/15/2002	Jerry Pulliam	Dan River	37 lbs.
5/15/2002	Barry Carr	Dan River	34 lbs., 15 oz.
5/15/2002	Barry Carr	Dan River	25 lbs., 02 oz.
5/17/2002	Leonard Cook	Dan River	30 lbs., 06 oz.
5/17/2002	Sandy Stallings	Dan River	30 lbs., 12 oz.	41 1/2
5/18/2002	Barry Carr	Dan River	31 lbs., 02 oz.
5/18/2002	William Mason	Buggs Island Lake	36 lbs.	43 1/2
5/19/2002	Edward Botkin	Dan River	44 lbs., 02 oz.	43
5/19/2002	Edward Botkin	Dan River	54 lbs., 06 oz.	46 1/2
5/19/2002	Edward Botkin	Dan River	40 lbs., 09 oz.	41 1/4
5/19/2002	Gary Smith	Dan River	32 lbs., 08 oz.	40
5/21/2002	Paul Rigney	Dan River	27 lbs.	41 1/4
5/26/2002	William Mason	Buggs Island Lake	26 lbs., 08 oz.	40 1/2
5/27/2002	Shannon Henderson	Dan River	35 lbs.	42
5/27/2002	Penny Purnell	Buggs Island Lake	34 lbs., 08 oz.	40
5/27/2002	Teresa Wyatt	Dan River	32 lbs.	42
5/27/2002	Kevin Hall	James River	31 lbs., 08 oz.
5/28/2002	Paul Rigney	Dan River	25 lbs., 08 oz.	40 1/2
5/29/2002	Leroy Johnson	Dan River	44 lbs.	43
5/30/2002	Paul Chappell	Dan River	25 lbs., 12 oz.
5/31/2002	H. Steve Tollerson	Dan River	26 lbs.	41
6/1/2002	Darwin Schaeffer	Buggs Island Lake	32 lbs.
6/2/2002	Richard Rhodes	James River	25 lbs., 04 oz.
6/2/2002	Richard Rhodes	James River	25 lbs., 02 oz.
6/2/2002	Richard Rhodes	James River	28 lbs., 08 oz.
6/2/2002	Dean Holubik	James River	32 lbs., 04 oz.
6/3/2002	Paul Link	Dan River	27 lbs.
6/3/2002	Paul Link	Dan River	34 lbs.
6/3/2002	Paul Link	Dan River	25 lbs., 2 oz.
6/4/2002	Derek Mayhew	Dan River	26 lbs., 04 oz.	41
6/5/2002	Richard Rhodes	James River	25 lbs.
6/5/2002	Paul Link	Dan River	28 lbs.
6/5/2002	Gregory Faris	Dan River	36 lbs.
6/5/2002	Jacob Rhoten	James River	26 lbs., 08 oz.
6/9/2002	William Mason	Buggs Island Lake	28 lbs., 13 oz.	41 3/4
6/15/2002	Bryan Mayhew	Staunton River	32 lbs.	44
6/15/2002	Clarence Logan, Jr.	Staunton River	41 lbs., 04 oz.	46
6/15/2002	Darwin Schaeffer	Buggs Island Lake	32 lbs., 14 oz.
6/16/2002	Paul Link	Dan River	26 lbs.
6/16/2002	Paul Link	Dan River	30 lbs.
6/16/2002	Christopher Stanley, Jr.	Buggs Island Lake	28 lbs.	42
6/17/2002	Tony Angel	Staunton River	25 lbs., 10 oz.
6/17/2002	Wallace Carroll	Staunton River		40 3/4
6/19/2002	Richard Gallagher, Jr.	Buggs Island Lake	28 lbs., 04 oz.	40
6/19/2002	Lawrence Gilbert Jr.	Dan River	30 lbs., 04 oz.
6/22/2002	Michael Hatcher	Smith Mountain Lake	32 lbs., 04 oz.	46
6/25/2002	Rigos Horta, II	Staunton River	25 lbs., 15 oz.	41 1/4
6/25/2002	Allen Peck	Smith Mountain Lake	32 lbs., 04 oz.	43
6/26/2002	Jason Pinter	James River	25 lbs., 04 oz.
6/26/2002	Eugene Chandler, Sr.	Dan River	27 lbs., 12 oz.	41
6/28/2002	Eugene Chandler, Sr.	Dan River	35 lbs.	42
6/28/2002	Eugene Chandler, Sr.	Dan River	31 lbs.	40 1/2
6/29/2002	Charles Jones	James River	26 lbs., 08 oz.
6/29/2002	Darwin Schaeffer	Buggs Island Lake	25 lbs., 08 oz.	37 1/2
6/30/2002	James Curry	James River		40 1/2
6/30/2002	William Curry	James River		41
6/30/2002	Danny Hensley	Dan River	28 lbs., 10 oz.	41
7/1/2002	Jason Vernon	Dan River	40 lbs.	42 3/4
7/1/2002	Paul Bowling	Dan River	32 lbs.	41 1/4
7/2/2002	Howard Freeman	Staunton River	28 lbs., 09 oz.	40
7/2/2002	Michael Freeman	Staunton River	26 lbs., 09 oz.
7/4/2002	Paul Chappell	Dan River	27 lbs., 02 oz.	44
7/4/2002	Robert Long	Staunton River	32 lbs.	41 1/2
7/5/2002	Robert Deacon	James River	25 lbs.
7/5/2002	Robert Sowder	Dan River	29 lbs.
7/5/2002	Paul Bowling	Dan River	29 lbs.	40 1/2
7/7/2002	David Holcomb	Dan River	25 lbs.
7/7/2002	H. Steve Tollerson	Buggs Island Lake	41 lbs., 12 oz.	46
7/10/2002	Steven Waller	Staunton River	34 lbs.	42
7/12/2002	Larry Hart	James River		40
7/13/2002	Richard Clegg	Buggs Island Lake	37 lbs., 03 oz.	40 1/4
7/14/2002	Doug Wilburn	James River	25 lbs.	41 1/2
7/15/2002	Ronney Wyatt	Staunton River	36 lbs.	41
7/17/2002	Eugene Chandler, Jr.	Dan River	35 lbs.	41
7/17/2002	Eugene Chandler, Sr.	Dan River	30 lbs.	40
7/17/2002	Dillon Rapalee	James River	27 lbs., 08 oz.
7/17/2002	Derek Mayhew	Staunton River	27 lbs., 08 oz.	41
7/18/2002	Derek Mayhew	Staunton River	27 lbs.	42 1/2
7/19/2002	Eugene Chandler, Jr.	Dan River	32 lbs.	40 1/2
7/21/2002	H. Steve Tollerson	Buggs Island Lake	25 lbs., 08 oz.	39 1/2
7/21/2002	Jeffrey Carney	James River		41
7/21/2002	Ronald Hedrick	Staunton River	27 lbs.	42
7/27/2002	Clarence Logan, Jr.	Staunton River	28 lbs., 04 oz.
7/27/2002	Julian Hamlet	Staunton River	26 lbs., 08 oz.
7/28/2002	Norman Shifflett	James River	28 lbs., 04 oz.	40 1/2
7/28/2002	Andrew Spade, Sr.	Carvins Cove Lake	26 lbs., 01 oz.
7/30/2002	Derek Mayhew	Staunton River	34 lbs.	45 1/2
7/30/2002	Derek Mayhew	Staunton River	32 lbs.	43
8/2/2002	Charles Overby	Staunton River	26 lbs., 08 oz.
8/2/2002	Alan Overby	Staunton River	28 lbs., 08 oz.
8/2/2002	Derek Mayhew	Staunton River	29 lbs., 08 oz.	43 1/2
8/2/2002	Derek Mayhew	Staunton River	29 lbs.	43
8/3/2002	Michael Freeman	Staunton River	33 lbs., 15 oz.	42
8/3/2002	Nathan Pearson	Staunton River	25 lbs.
8/3/2002	Steven Waller	Staunton River	31 lbs.	41
8/4/2002	James Cannoy Jr.	Buggs Island Lake	35 lbs.	44 1/2
8/4/2002	David Gibson	Staunton River	29 lbs., 01 oz.	41 1/2
8/8/2002	Robert Hubbard	Staunton River		40 1/2
8/9/2002	Gary Waller	Staunton River	40 lbs.	40
8/9/2002	Russell Minter	Dan River	29 lbs.	42
8/10/2002	Darwin Schaeffer	Buggs Island Lake	27 lbs.	39 1/4
8/11/2002	Steven Waller	Staunton River	28 lbs.	40 1/2
8/11/2002	Michael Crosby	Lake Brittle	29 lbs., 09 oz.
8/12/2002	Derek Mayhew	Staunton River	28 lbs.	41
8/13/2002	Danny Ray Walker	Buggs Island Lake	33 lbs.	45
8/17/2002	Charles Partin	James River	26 lbs.	40 3/4
8/17/2002	Wayne Tabor, Jr.	James River		40 1/4
8/17/2002	Darwin Schaeffer	Buggs Island Lake	31 lbs.	41
8/17/2002	William Mason	Buggs Island Lake	32 lbs.	43 1/2
8/23/2002	Steven Waller	Staunton River	27 lbs.	40 1/2
8/24/2002	Tamara Hamilton	Staunton River	30 lbs., 08 oz.	42
8/24/2002	Jason Shelton	Staunton River	25 lbs.	40 1/4
8/24/2002	Rassie Wright Sr.	Claytor Lake	35 lbs., 04 oz.
8/24/2002	James Mayhew	Buggs Island Lake	25 lbs., 05 oz.
8/24/2002	James Mayhew	Buggs Island Lake	25 lbs.
8/25/2002	Keith Martin	Claytor Lake	27 lbs., 12 oz.	38 1/4
8/25/2002	Ronald Hedrick	Staunton River	26 lbs.
8/28/2002	Richard Starmer	Buggs Island Lake	25 lbs., 04 oz.	40
8/30/2002	Shaun Dearden	Staunton River		40
9/1/2002	Steven Waller	Staunton River	26 lbs.	40
9/1/2002	James Mayhew	Buggs Island Lake	29 lbs., 12 oz.	43 1/4
9/2/2002	Clarence Stevenson	Dan River	34 lbs., 08 oz.	41
9/2/2002	Lodias Smith	James River	25 lbs., 08 oz.	40 1/2
9/3/2002	Robert Eades	Staunton River	27 lbs., 06 oz.	39 1/2
9/6/2002	Todd Jessee	South Holston Reservoir	26 lbs., 10 oz.
9/7/2002	John Richards	Staunton River		40 1/2
9/8/2002	Sherman McKenna	James River		40 1/4
9/15/2002	Chad Bean	James River		47
9/15/2002	Ronald Hedrick	Staunton River	25 lbs.	40 1/2
9/18/2002	Rassie Wright Sr.	Claytor Lake	28 lbs., 12 oz.	42
9/20/2002	Harry Shafer, Jr.	James River	25 lbs., 08 oz.
9/21/2002	Jeff Crickenberger	Smith Mountain Lake	27 lbs., 09 oz.	38 1/2
9/24/2002	Earl Richardson	Buggs Island Lake	46 lbs.	50 1/2
9/28/2002	James Boothe	Buggs Island Lake	28 lbs., 10 oz.	42 1/4
9/28/2002	Robert Taylor	James River		40
9/28/2002	James Hughes, Jr.	Smith Mountain Lake		41 1/2
9/28/2002	Harry Shafer	James River	27 lbs.
9/29/2002	William Hill	Buggs Island Lake	27 lbs., 08 oz.
10/1/2002	William Hill	Buggs Island Lake	26 lbs.
10/2/2002	Gary Counts	Flannagan Reservoir	29 lbs.	40 1/2
10/4/2002	Davy Tilley	Buggs Island Lake	30 lbs., 06 oz.	42 1/2
10/5/2002	Mark Howerton	Buggs Island Lake	30 lbs.	43
10/11/2002	James Boothe	Buggs Island Lake	32 lbs., 04 oz.	42
10/11/2002	Davy Tilley	Buggs Island Lake	26 lbs., 06 oz.
10/21/2002	William Hill	Buggs Island Lake	38 lbs., 08 oz.	44 1/2
10/22/2002	Mark Howerton	Buggs Island Lake	30 lbs.	43 1/2
10/25/2002	William Windsor	Smith Mountain Lake	25 lbs., 08 oz.
10/26/2002	John Howerton	Buggs Island Lake	39 lbs., 2 oz.
11/2/2002	Theodore Kesler	James River	25 lbs., 02 oz.
11/2/2002	Mark Howerton	Buggs Island Lake	42 lbs.	46
11/12/2002	George Winfield, Jr.	James River	26 lbs.	39
11/29/2002	Thom Hagen	James River	25 lbs.
12/23/2002	Rolf Hohlbauch	James River	26 lbs., 06 oz.

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