Fish Citations

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Striped Bass

Date of Catch	Angler	Waterbody	Weight	Length
1/2/2002	Richard Reed	Smith Mountain Lake	24 lbs.	41 1/4
1/3/2002	Bobby Dale Fowler	Smith Mountain Lake	22 lbs., 04 oz.	42
1/5/2002	Lloyd Douglas Craddock	Smith Mountain Lake	36 lbs., 08 oz.	46
1/9/2002	Faron Gardner	Claytor Lake	20 lbs., 08 oz.
1/10/2002	Lionel Williams, III	Smith Mountain Lake	23 lbs.	41
1/12/2002	Weldon Tobler, Sr.	Smith Mountain Lake	33 lbs., 08 oz.	45 3/4
1/26/2002	Kenneth Short	Smith Mountain Lake		37 3/4
1/26/2002	Henry Wilson, Jr.	Lake Gaston	24 lbs.
1/27/2002	Randy Horst, Sr.	Smith Mountain Lake		37 3/4
1/28/2002	Benjamin Mack, Jr.	Smith Mountain Lake	24 lbs., 10 oz.	40 1/4
1/30/2002	Charles Mitchell	Lake Gaston	22 lbs., 08 oz.
2/2/2002	Ray Arthur	Lake Anna	20 lbs., 08 oz.
2/7/2002	Douglas Biggs	Lake Gaston	20 lbs., 08 oz.
2/9/2002	William Riley	Lake Anna	23 lbs.	36
2/15/2002	Gregory Heath	Buggs Island Lake	20 lbs., 02 oz.
2/16/2002	Edward Robtison	Smith Mountain Lake	22 lbs.	40
2/16/2002	James Cheek	Smith Mountain Lake	21 lbs., 04 oz.	39 1/4
2/16/2002	Jeffrey Eagan	Smith Mountain Lake	20 lbs., 01 oz.	37
2/18/2002	Tommy Ford	Smith Mountain Lake	21 lbs., 13 oz.	36 1/2
2/19/2002	Billy Seymour, Jr.	Buggs Island Lake	20 lbs., 12 oz.
2/23/2002	Gary Joyce	Smith Mountain Lake		37
2/23/2002	Brandon Cross	Lake Chesdin	20 lbs., 01 oz.
3/1/2002	William Jordan	Smith Mountain Lake		37 1/2
3/2/2002	Christian Hellmer	Buggs Island Lake	20 lbs.
3/3/2002	Graham King	Smith Mountain Lake		37 1/4
3/3/2002	James Martin	Lake Anna	20 lbs.	37
3/5/2002	Helene Angle	Smith Mountain Lake	28 lbs., 03 oz.	40 1/2
3/5/2002	Macky May	Smith Mountain Lake	20 lbs., 08 oz.	38 1/2
3/7/2002	Robert Hoffert, Jr.	Smith Mountain Lake	20 lbs., 06 oz.
3/7/2002	Dimick Heller	Smith Mountain Lake	24 lbs., 07 oz.	37 1/2
3/8/2002	Mike Dillon	Smith Mountain Lake	28 lbs.	43 1/2
3/11/2002	Bobby Dale Fowler	Smith Mountain Lake	20 lbs., 02 oz.	38
3/15/2002	Gary Trent	Smith Mountain Lake		38 1/2
3/15/2002	James Smith III	Lake Anna	20 lbs., 08 oz.
3/15/2002	Jimmy Fraley	Smith Mountain Lake	23 lbs., 04 oz.	37
3/16/2002	Macky May	Smith Mountain Lake		37 1/2
3/17/2002	Jeffrey Hundley	Smith Mountain Lake		39 1/2
3/24/2002	Alan Wehner	Smith Mountain Lake		37
3/24/2002	Dennis Oyler	Smith Mountain Lake	22 lbs., 04 oz.	37
3/25/2002	Wayne Dillon	Smith Mountain Lake	21 lbs., 08 oz.
3/28/2002	John Lingerfelt, Jr.	Lake Chesdin	22 lbs., 15 oz.
3/29/2002	Jeffery Haynes	Western Branch Reservoir	21 lbs., 04 oz.
3/30/2002	John Foltz	James River	26 lbs.	41
3/30/2002	Michael Marsh	Leesville Lake	25 lbs., 12 oz.
3/30/2002	James Mayhew	Dan River	21 lbs.
4/1/2002	Christopher Waybright	Pamunkey River	27 lbs.	37 3/4
4/1/2002	Dale Duncan	Claytor Lake	22 lbs.
4/1/2002	Jody Belcher	Smith Mountain Lake		38
4/2/2002	W. Richmond McDaniel	Pamunkey River		39 3/4
4/3/2002	Mark Whitman	Smith Mountain Lake	31 lbs., 06 oz.	41
4/4/2002	Emery Keeter	Lake Gaston	24 lbs., 10 oz.	38 1/2
4/4/2002	Andrew Spade, Sr.	Carvins Cove Lake		37 1/2
4/5/2002	Helene Angle	Smith Mountain Lake	20 lbs.	37 1/2
4/5/2002	Donald See, Sr.	Smith Mountain Lake	23 lbs., 03 oz.	41 1/2
4/6/2002	Herbert Pritchett Jr.	Smith Mountain Lake	24 lbs., 15 oz.	41 1/2
4/6/2002	Michael Millius	Smith Mountain Lake		37 1/4
4/10/2002	Harvey Altice, Jr.	Smith Mountain Lake		38
4/10/2002	Dewayne Lamb	Smith Mountain Lake	20 lbs.
4/10/2002	Dewayne Lamb	Smith Mountain Lake	22 lbs.
4/11/2002	Garry Kendrick, Sr.	Smith Mountain Lake		37 1/2
4/11/2002	Heath Harrison	Lake Chesdin	25 lbs., 04 oz.	36
4/12/2002	John Horton, Sr.	Leesville Lake	22 lbs.	36
4/13/2002	Gary Cook	Lake Chesdin	23 lbs., 15 oz.
4/13/2002	Adrian Updike-Bobbitt	Smith Mountain Lake	20 lbs., 09 oz.	37
4/13/2002	Granvil Griffin Jr.	Smith Mountain Lake	20 lbs., 09 oz.	38 3/4
4/13/2002	Robert Wells	James River	40 lbs.	45
4/13/2002	Charles Haupt Jr.	James River	30 lbs.	41
4/14/2002	Brandon Curtis	Smith Mountain Lake	20 lbs.	37
4/14/2002	Linda Short	Smith Mountain Lake	35 lbs., 12 oz.	42 1/2
4/15/2002	Clyde Harrison	Lake Gaston	23 lbs.	39 1/2
4/16/2002	Glaten Wood	Smith Mountain Lake	27 lbs., 09 oz.	40 1/2
4/17/2002	Thomas Crotts Jr.	Smith Mountain Lake	20 lbs., 06 oz.	38
4/17/2002	Larry Goff	Smith Mountain Lake	23 lbs., 05 oz.	40
4/18/2002	Harvey Altice, Jr.	Smith Mountain Lake	22 lbs., 11 oz.	38 1/2
4/19/2002	Mike Marshall, Jr.	Smith Mountain Lake		37 1/2
4/19/2002	Randall See	Smith Mountain Lake	22 lbs., 09 oz.	41 1/4
4/19/2002	William Braden	Smith Mountain Lake	28 lbs.	42
4/20/2002	David Hull, Jr.	Smith Mountain Lake		37
4/20/2002	Franklin Turner	Claytor Lake	27 lbs., 03 oz.
4/20/2002	Kenneth Lester	Smith Mountain Lake		37 1/4
4/20/2002	Daniel Dean	Smith Mountain Lake	33 lbs.	44
4/21/2002	Ronald Barnette, Sr.	Smith Mountain Lake		37 1/4
4/21/2002	Charles Haupt Jr.	James River	27 lbs.	39 1/2
4/22/2002	Roger Hartsock	Dan River	20 lbs.	35 1/2
4/22/2002	Dearl Brown	Smith Mountain Lake	31 lbs.	41
4/25/2002	Fred Tyree	Lake Gaston	27 lbs., 06 oz.	39 3/4
4/25/2002	Kenneth Short	Smith Mountain Lake	41 lbs., 04 oz.	48
4/26/2002	Bray Diggs, III	Lake Chesdin	22 lbs., 08 oz.
4/27/2002	Randy Michael	Smith Mountain Lake		37
4/28/2002	Randy Michael	Smith Mountain Lake	24 lbs., 14 oz.	41
4/29/2002	Peter Howe	Leesville Lake	28 lbs.	42 1/4
5/4/2002	James Shifflett, Jr.	Smith Mountain Lake	20 lbs., 01 oz.	38 1/4
5/4/2002	Kenneth May	Smith Mountain Lake	24 lbs.	38
5/5/2002	Scott Wood	Rappahannock River	20 lbs., 02 oz.	37 1/4
5/7/2002	Macky May	Smith Mountain Lake		38 1/2
5/7/2002	Joseph Macaravage	Smith Mountain Lake	26 lbs., 09 oz.	43
5/10/2002	Ronald Stackhouse	Lake Gaston	25 lbs., 12 oz.	37 1/2
5/10/2002	Douglas Biggs	Lake Gaston	21 lbs., 05 oz.	37 1/2
5/18/2002	Ray Goldston	Smith Mountain Lake		37 1/4
5/19/2002	James Davis	Smith Mountain Lake	21 lbs., 04 oz.	38 3/4
5/22/2002	Terry Chandler	Smith Mountain Lake	32 lbs.	46 1/2
5/24/2002	Howard Martin	Smith Mountain Lake	21 lbs.	38
5/24/2002	Douglas Young	Smith Mountain Lake	21 lbs., 12 oz.	39 1/4
5/24/2002	Ralph Kristiansen	Smith Mountain Lake		38
5/25/2002	James Davis	Smith Mountain Lake		39 3/4
5/25/2002	Brian Richards	Lake Gaston	23 lbs., 04 oz.	38
5/28/2002	Dan Spradlin	Smith Mountain Lake		37 1/4
5/28/2002	James White	Smith Mountain Lake		38
5/29/2002	Rocky Simonetti	Smith Mountain Lake		37 3/4
5/29/2002	Robert Banocy Jr.	Lake Anna	20 lbs.
5/31/2002	Bryan Gentry	Smith Mountain Lake	25 lbs., 08 oz.	41
6/2/2002	Timothy Burton	Smith Mountain Lake	22 lbs.	39 1/2
6/3/2002	Rocky Simonetti	Smith Mountain Lake		39
6/3/2002	Thomas Compton, Jr.	Smith Mountain Lake		37
6/5/2002	Michael Jones	Smith Mountain Lake	22 lbs.	40
6/6/2002	Laura Jolliff	Smith Mountain Lake		37
6/9/2002	Danny Baugh	Lake Gaston	24 lbs., 09 oz.	38
6/12/2002	Freddie Williams	Smith Mountain Lake	24 lbs., 15 oz.	43 1/2
6/12/2002	Christopher Bowes	Smith Mountain Lake		37 1/4
6/14/2002	Timothy Reynolds	Smith Mountain Lake	20 lbs., 06 oz.	38
6/16/2002	Brandon Russell	Lake Prince	30 lbs.	41
6/17/2002	Richard Brown	Smith Mountain Lake		37
6/19/2002	Joe Brightwell	Smith Mountain Lake	23 lbs., 11 oz.	39 1/2
6/20/2002	Gary Parrish	Smith Mountain Lake		37 3/4
6/21/2002	Jeremy Chinnis	Smith Mountain Lake		38 1/2
6/21/2002	Jerry Hiatt	Smith Mountain Lake	25 lbs.	43
6/21/2002	Tim Hulon	Smith Mountain Lake	22 lbs.	40
6/23/2002	Kenneth Short	Smith Mountain Lake	21 lbs., 03 oz.	40
6/24/2002	Ray Bosworth	Smith Mountain Lake	23 lbs., 02 oz.	39
6/25/2002	Kenneth Short	Smith Mountain Lake	20 lbs., 07 oz.	39
6/25/2002	Kenneth Short	Smith Mountain Lake	24 lbs., 10 oz.	41
6/25/2002	Roger Beavers	Claytor Lake	20 lbs., 06 oz.	37
6/26/2002	Danny Hensley	Smith Mountain Lake	20 lbs.	37 1/2
6/26/2002	James Worrell	Lake Prince	22 lbs., 08 oz.
6/27/2002	Kenneth Short	Smith Mountain Lake	23 lbs., 10 oz.	39 3/4
6/27/2002	Kenneth Short	Smith Mountain Lake	22 lbs., 05 oz.	39
6/29/2002	Kenneth Short	Smith Mountain Lake	20 lbs., 06 oz.	38 1/2
6/29/2002	Dewayne Lamb	Smith Mountain Lake		37
7/1/2002	David Kendrick	Smith Mountain Lake	28 lbs., 12 oz.	42
7/2/2002	Kenneth Short	Smith Mountain Lake	38 lbs., 03 oz.	46 1/2
7/2/2002	John Joyce, Sr.	Smith Mountain Lake	20 lbs.	40 1/2
7/5/2002	Kenneth Short	Smith Mountain Lake	27 lbs., 08 oz.	42 1/2
7/6/2002	Christopher Rotty	Smith Mountain Lake		37 3/4
7/6/2002	Richard Gautier	Claytor Lake	21 lbs., 02 oz.	38 1/2
7/13/2002	Timothy Burton	Smith Mountain Lake	20 lbs., 14 oz.	40
7/14/2002	Mike Fowler	Little Creek Reservoir	20 lbs., 03 oz.	38
7/14/2002	Ronald Davis	Smith Mountain Lake		38
7/14/2002	Dustin Meyermann	Smith Mountain Lake		37
7/16/2002	Philip Gwynn	Smith Mountain Lake		38 1/2
7/17/2002	Freddie Williams	Smith Mountain Lake		40 1/4
7/18/2002	Greg Patterson	Lake Gaston	23 lbs., 14 oz.	37 3/4
7/19/2002	Darrell East	Smith Mountain Lake		37 1/2
7/20/2002	Edward Rousch	Smith Mountain Lake		37 1/4
7/21/2002	Mike Fowler	Little Creek Reservoir		38
7/25/2002	Stephen Hooker	Smith Mountain Lake		37 1/2
7/26/2002	John Robertson Sr.	Little Creek Reservoir	20 lbs., 07 oz.	38
7/27/2002	Michael Travis	Smith Mountain Lake	23 lbs., 08 oz.	38
7/28/2002	Sandra Jessup	Smith Mountain Lake		37 1/4
7/30/2002	Mary Kay Sustek	Smith Mountain Lake		37 3/4
8/2/2002	Garry Kendrick, Sr.	Smith Mountain Lake	21 lbs., 06 oz.	39 1/2
8/14/2002	George Snead, III	Smith Mountain Lake		37 1/4
8/17/2002	Jonathan Metzger	Smith Mountain Lake		38
8/20/2002	Paul Bowling, Sr.	Smith Mountain Lake	24 lbs., 12 oz.	38 1/2
8/23/2002	John Horton, Sr.	Leesville Lake	20 lbs.	39
8/30/2002	Ronald Stafford, Sr.	Smith Mountain Lake		38
9/1/2002	Rex Smith	Smith Mountain Lake	21 lbs., 02 oz.	38 1/2
9/6/2002	John Horton, Sr.	Leesville Lake	25 lbs.	41
9/12/2002	Sonny Smith	Smith Mountain Lake		37 1/2
9/25/2002	Jerry Skinner	Smith Mountain Lake	21 lbs., 08 oz.
9/28/2002	Diana Johnson	Claytor Lake	26 lbs., 06 oz.	40
10/3/2002	Robert Hoyt, Sr.	Smith Mountain Lake	29 lbs., 12 oz.	44
10/8/2002	Michael Smith	Claytor Lake	20 lbs.	38
10/12/2002	Donald Horn	Smith Mountain Lake		39 1/2
10/20/2002	Dennis Calpin	Smith Mountain Lake	21 lbs., 10 oz.	40 1/4
10/28/2002	Carlos Brown, Jr.	Smith Mountain Lake		37
10/28/2002	Eric Shell	Smith Mountain Lake		40
11/1/2002	Curtis Holloman	Roanoke River		37
11/2/2002	John Thomas	Smith Mountain Lake	22 lbs., 14 oz.	38 3/4
11/6/2002	Brian Wallace	Claytor Lake	20 lbs., 14 oz.
11/7/2002	Don Bosko	Smith Mountain Lake		39
11/8/2002	Reece Miller	Smith Mountain Lake	30 lbs., 12 oz.	44
11/8/2002	James Keyton	Smith Mountain Lake		37
11/14/2002	Brian Crawford	Dan River		37
11/14/2002	Gary Shaffer	Smith Mountain Lake		37
11/24/2002	Jonathan Finch	Rappahannock River	20 lbs., 02 oz.	38 1/4
11/28/2002	Richard Hinton	Lake Gaston	20 lbs.	38
11/29/2002	Randall Creasy	Smith Mountain Lake		37
11/29/2002	Joseph Duckett	Leesville Lake	20 lbs., 08 oz.	38
12/3/2002	John Goyne	Smith Mountain Lake		38
12/15/2002	Gary Shaffer	Smith Mountain Lake		37 1/2
12/29/2002	Russell Willis	Smith Mountain Lake		37

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