Fish Citations

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Muskellunge

Date of Catch	Angler	Waterbody	Weight	Length
1/4/2002	Edward Lawton	New River	17 lbs.	41
1/14/2002	Cliff Songer	New River	18 lbs., 04 oz.	42
1/21/2002	Edward Lawton	New River	22 lbs., 08 oz.	43 1/2
1/29/2002	Michael Cromer	New River	15 lbs.	40
2/2/2002	Edward Lawton	New River	19 lbs.	43
2/9/2002	Brandon Smith	New River		40
2/12/2002	Jeffrey Conley	New River	20 lbs., 04 oz.	44
2/12/2002	William King	New River	24 lbs., 07 oz.	45
2/12/2002	Cliff Songer	New River	17 lbs., 08 oz.	42 1/4
2/25/2002	Edward Lawton	New River	16 lbs.	40 1/2
3/8/2002	Steve Woodroof	Smith Mountain Lake	34 lbs., 08 oz.	48
3/8/2002	David Darden	New River		42 1/4
4/5/2002	Billy Thompson	New River	26 lbs., 07 oz.	44
4/14/2002	Fonda Seward, Jr.	Smith Mountain Lake	21 lbs., 03 oz.
5/12/2002	Johnathan Weddle	New River		43
5/21/2002	Edward Lawton	New River	18 lbs., 08 oz.	42
6/7/2002	Kevin Staton	James River	25 lbs.	45
6/7/2002	Todd Pitsenberger	James River		40
6/10/2002	Kimberly Wilson	New River	28 lbs.	47
6/11/2002	Jeffrey Conley	New River	16 lbs.	41
6/16/2002	William Rhoades	New River	25 lbs.	47
6/28/2002	Jeffrey Conley	New River	16 lbs., 15 oz.	41 1/2
6/28/2002	Philip Mabe	New River	35 lbs.	48 1/2
7/3/2002	Carles Arnold	New River	18 lbs., 04 oz.
7/3/2002	William Haines	New River	21 lbs., 02 oz.	41 1/2
7/5/2002	Darren Rader	New River	18 lbs., 04 oz.	44
7/21/2002	Gary Hancock	Rural Retreat Lake		40 1/2
7/26/2002	Don Thomson	Cowpasture River	16 lbs., 12 oz.
8/16/2002	Paul Branham	Flannagan Reservoir	26 lbs., 05 oz.	48
8/18/2002	Carlos Castro	Burke Lake	24 lbs., 04 oz.	44
8/23/2002	Timothy Clemons	New River	31 lbs.	47
8/24/2002	Warren Lee Kuser Jr.	Shenandoah River	20 lbs.	40
8/31/2002	Charles Toney, II	New River	15 lbs.	42
9/12/2002	Gary Howell	New River	17 lbs., 15 oz.	43 1/2
9/14/2002	Franklin Widner	Rural Retreat Lake	21 lbs., 12 oz.	45
10/9/2002	Ronald Smith	Burke Lake	16 lbs., 03 oz.	40
10/10/2002	Jeffrey Conley	New River	19 lbs.	42
10/21/2002	Jeffrey Conley	New River	19 lbs., 08 oz.	41
11/3/2002	Joseph Fowler	Rural Retreat Lake		41
11/12/2002	Joseph Fowler	Rural Retreat Lake		45
11/18/2002	Joseph Lang Jr.	Western Branch Reservoir	31 lbs., 03 oz.	48
11/20/2002	Cliff Songer	New River	21 lbs., 14 oz.	43 1/4
11/21/2002	Joseph Fowler	Rural Retreat Lake		40 1/4
12/2/2002	Glenn Gardner	New River	31 lbs.	48 1/2
12/27/2002	George Witten Jr.	New River	18 lbs., 02 oz.	40 1/2

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