Fish Citations

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Channel Catfish

Date of Catch	Angler	Waterbody	Weight	Length
1/10/2001	Casey Griggs	Private Pond		34 1/2
1/11/2001	Patrick Ashley	James River	25 lbs.	36 3/4
2/4/2001	John Smith	James River	26 lbs.	35
2/10/2001	Tim Delveaux	Hells Point Creek	13 lbs., 13 oz.
2/14/2001	Brian Joyner	Blackwater River	12 lbs., 04 oz.
2/21/2001	William Brandon	Chickahominy Lake	12 lbs., 04 oz.	30
2/21/2001	Roy Cook, Sr.	Chickahominy Lake	18 lbs., 08 oz.	33
2/21/2001	Clyde Nicholson	South Fork Shenandoah River	12 lbs., 08 oz.	30
2/23/2001	Charles Temple Jr.	James River	26 lbs., 04 oz.	38
2/23/2001	David Prewitt	Lake Smith	12 lbs., 09 oz.
2/26/2001	William Brandon	Chickahominy Lake	18 lbs.	30
3/1/2001	Clyde Nicholson	South Fork Shenandoah River	13 lbs., 12 oz.	30 1/4
3/3/2001	Demetrius Robinson	Burke Lake	20 lbs.	34
3/5/2001	Aubrey Howerton	Private Pond	13 lbs., 07 oz.	33 1/4
3/11/2001	Brian Joyner	Nottoway River	17 lbs., 10 oz.
3/12/2001	James Ryder Jr.	Lake Anna	24 lbs., 15 oz.	38 1/2
3/17/2001	Michael Shifflett	South Fork Shenandoah River	14 lbs., 10 oz.	32
3/17/2001	Timothy Jarrell	Private Pond	13 lbs., 06 oz.	37 1/2
3/17/2001	Justin Griffiths	Private Pond		31
3/18/2001	Michael Shifflett	South Fork Shenandoah River		31
3/21/2001	Don Ehlers	South Fork Shenandoah River		30 1/4
3/22/2001	Clyde Nicholson	South Fork Shenandoah River	12 lbs., 10 oz.	30
3/24/2001	Gwen Christian	Private Pond	17 lbs.	31
3/24/2001	Allen Roberts	Potomac River	16 lbs., 08 oz.
3/30/2001	Richard Montgomery	All Other Waters	12 lbs., 12 oz.	30 1/2
3/30/2001	Richard Montgomery	All Other Waters	12 lbs., 02 oz.	31 1/2
3/30/2001	Richard Montgomery	All Other Waters	12 lbs., 09 oz.	30 1/2
3/30/2001	Frank Wright Jr.	Lake Gaston	22 lbs., 04 oz.	34
3/30/2001	John Harper, Jr.	Lake Gaston	14 lbs.	30 1/2
3/31/2001	Christopher Casserly	James River	16 lbs.	34
3/31/2001	Thomas Terry	Potomac River	12 lbs., 02 oz.
3/31/2001	James Dunnivan	Potomac River	13 lbs., 12 oz.	31 1/2
4/5/2001	Peter Sweeney	Chickahominy River	17 lbs.	34
4/7/2001	Donald Shinn Jr.	James River	19 lbs.
4/8/2001	Michael Kinnett	Potomac River	12 lbs., 14 oz.	32 1/4
4/12/2001	Charles Temple Jr.	James River	25 lbs., 14 oz.	36
4/12/2001	Jeffrey Gilleo	James River	19 lbs., 04 oz.
4/13/2001	Kenneth Herring, Jr.	Mattaponi River	16 lbs., 10 oz.	34
4/13/2001	Ronald Clarke	James River		30 3/4
4/14/2001	Allen Roberts	Potomac River	12 lbs., 10 oz.
4/14/2001	Allen Roberts	Potomac River	14 lbs., 02 oz.
4/14/2001	Thomas Terry	Potomac River	12 lbs., 03 oz.
4/14/2001	Robert McIvor	Mill Creek		30 1/2
4/15/2001	Gregory Saunders	New River		30
4/19/2001	Michael Dolph	Rural Retreat Lake	13 lbs., 12 oz.	32
4/21/2001	Donald Vardsveen	Private Pond		25 1/2
4/21/2001	Donald Newbold	James River	17 lbs., 08 oz.
4/21/2001	Shane Canestra	Potomac River	15 lbs., 14 oz.	33 3/4
4/22/2001	Gene Brockwell	James River	19 lbs.
4/22/2001	Everette McKenney	James River	12 lbs., 08 oz.
4/25/2001	Zachary Humphrey	Back Bay		31
4/27/2001	Robert Shenk, Jr.	Shenandoah River	13 lbs.
4/27/2001	Lloyd Seely	Private Pond	12 lbs., 02 oz.
4/27/2001	Brian Sexton, Sr.	New River	13 lbs., 08 oz.	32 1/2
4/28/2001	Vivian White, II	Private Pond		30 1/2
5/2/2001	Matthew Lyall	Shenandoah River		30 1/2
5/2/2001	Jason Horton	Potomac River	12 lbs., 05 oz.
5/4/2001	Jonathan Willis	Jackson River		31
5/4/2001	Bobby Rosenbaum	Claytor Lake	13 lbs.	30
5/4/2001	Larry Higgins	Shenandoah River	14 lbs., 05 oz.	31 1/2
5/5/2001	Joseph Damato	Potomac River		30
5/5/2001	Harvey Hazelgrove	Mattaponi River	12 lbs., 02 oz.	30 1/4
5/5/2001	Joseph Gormley	All Other Waters	13 lbs., 08 oz.	32
5/6/2001	Thomas Thompson, Sr.	Pamunkey River	19 lbs., 08 oz.	37
5/6/2001	William Cox	James River	22 lbs., 04 oz.	34 1/2
5/7/2001	Thomas Barden, Jr.	Private Pond	13 lbs., 12 oz.
5/10/2001	Bruce Warf, Jr.	Douthat Lake	15 lbs., 04 oz.	31 1/4
5/11/2001	Carroll Adkins	Buggs Island Lake	21 lbs.	34
5/12/2001	Austin Bailey	Private Pond	12 lbs.
5/12/2001	James Johnson	Claytor Lake	13 lbs., 04 oz.	30 1/2
5/15/2001	Chad Ball	Middle Fork Holston	12 lbs.	31
5/15/2001	Charles Blum	Beaverdam Swamp Reservoir	12 lbs.	30
5/15/2001	Charles Blum	Beaverdam Swamp Reservoir	12 lbs.	29
5/19/2001	Robert Watkins	Claytor Lake	14 lbs., 10 oz.	29 1/2
5/25/2001	Dino Hallmark, Sr.	Hells Point Creek		35 1/2
5/25/2001	Dino Hallmark, Sr.	Hells Point Creek		34 3/4
5/25/2001	James Hall Jr.	All Other Waters		30 1/4
5/26/2001	James Publicover	All Other Waters	14 lbs., 08 oz.	37 1/2
5/26/2001	Daryl Ambrose Sr.	Private Pond		31 1/4
5/26/2001	Edward Howard	Lake Moomaw	13 lbs., 01 oz.	30 1/2
5/26/2001	Vance Willis	Private Pond	12 lbs.	31 1/2
5/26/2001	Louise Dean	New River	13 lbs., 08 oz.	31
5/27/2001	Michael Miller	Shenandoah River	13 lbs.	31 1/2
5/28/2001	Al Scott	Private Pond	18 lbs., 06 oz.	30 1/2
5/29/2001	Edward Decker	Private Pond		32
6/1/2001	David Johnson	Claytor Lake	15 lbs., 12 oz.	29 1/2
6/1/2001	Matthew Buikema	Private Pond		31
6/2/2001	Chad Strayer	Private Pond		31
6/4/2001	Jerry Johnson	Lake Gaston	13 lbs., 07 oz.	31 1/2
6/4/2001	Jerry Johnson	Lake Gaston	13 lbs., 04 oz.	31
6/4/2001	Kevin Cook	New River	14 lbs., 01 oz.	31 1/2
6/6/2001	Robert Daniel Jr.	Douthat Lake	20 lbs., 02 oz.	33 1/4
6/11/2001	Jerry Coggeshall	James River		31
6/13/2001	Clabron Roberts, Jr.	James River	15 lbs.	36
6/16/2001	Henry Roadcap	All Other Waters		40 1/4
6/16/2001	Timmy Worrell	Claytor Lake	13 lbs., 03 oz.	31
6/17/2001	Michelle Donivan	Lake Frederick	13 lbs., 07 oz.	30
6/17/2001	Fredrick Payne	Smith Mountain Lake	14 lbs., 03 oz.	30 3/4
6/19/2001	Kenneth Brockway Sr.	Sandy River Reservoir	13 lbs.	30
6/19/2001	William Allen	Chickahominy Lake	14 lbs., 05 oz.	43
6/20/2001	John Belcher	Private Pond	13 lbs., 15 oz.	30 3/4
6/20/2001	Doug Dellinger	Private Pond	16 lbs., 12 oz.	31
6/22/2001	Matthew Massaro	Private Pond	13 lbs.
6/23/2001	Dean Clark	All Other Waters	12 lbs., 03 oz.	31
6/23/2001	Eugene Keene, Sr.	New River	13 lbs., 04 oz.	33
6/24/2001	Rodney Snapp	Shenandoah River		32
6/24/2001	Logan Joseph	All Other Waters	14 lbs., 08 oz.	31 1/2
6/25/2001	Eugene Keene, Sr.	New River	13 lbs., 07 oz.	33 1/4
6/26/2001	Charles Blum	Beaverdam Swamp Reservoir	17 lbs., 15 oz.	33
6/26/2001	Jacob Lewanski	Private Pond		31 1/4
6/28/2001	Louise Dean	New River	12 lbs.	31 1/2
6/28/2001	Manuel Adams	Buggs Island Lake	16 lbs., 08 oz.	33
6/30/2001	Henry Roadcap	All Other Waters		32
7/1/2001	Christopher Champion	James River	28 lbs., 08 oz.
7/2/2001	Claude Monger Jr.	Private Pond		30
7/3/2001	Curtis Waller, V	Appomattox River	17 lbs., 08 oz.	36 1/2
7/5/2001	Brandon Waters	Shenandoah River	16 lbs., 08 oz.	32 1/2
7/7/2001	Alan McDilda	Claytor Lake		30 1/4
7/12/2001	Steve Smith	Potomac River	12 lbs., 04 oz.
7/13/2001	Matthew White	All Other Waters		31
7/13/2001	James Wilson	Buggs Island Lake	16 lbs.	31
7/15/2001	John Carneal	Pamunkey River	23 lbs., 15 oz.	35 1/2
7/15/2001	Edward Smith	Pamunkey River	15 lbs., 15 oz.	32
7/18/2001	Jason Clayton	James River		35 1/4
7/18/2001	Jason Clayton	James River		32 1/2
7/18/2001	Jason Clayton	James River		38 3/4
7/18/2001	Bruce Burks	Claytor Lake	12 lbs., 12 oz.	31
7/20/2001	Ronald Lawson	South Fork Shenandoah River		32
7/21/2001	Christopher Stanley Sr.	Lake Pelham	12 lbs.	31
7/21/2001	Lawrence Parker	South Fork Shenandoah River	14 lbs., 08 oz.	32
7/22/2001	Larry Shamburg	Burke Lake	20 lbs.	35 1/2
7/24/2001	Terry Ward	Chickahominy River	15 lbs., 08 oz.	35 1/4
7/25/2001	Sal Cannella	Chickahominy Lake	27 lbs.	30
7/25/2001	Adam Argenbright	Mill Creek	15 lbs.	32
7/27/2001	Lawrence Parker	South Fork Shenandoah River		30 1/2
7/27/2001	James Thompson, Jr.	Shenandoah River	12 lbs., 03 oz.
7/28/2001	Larry Swisher Jr.	Sherando Lake		30
7/29/2001	John Payne	Lake Smith		30 1/2
7/29/2001	Andrew Bower	Chickahominy River	14 lbs., 08 oz.	33
7/30/2001	Jeffrey Somers	Private Pond	13 lbs.	31
7/31/2001	Dexter Harris	Claytor Lake		30 1/2
8/2/2001	James Bernard	Buggs Island Lake		31
8/3/2001	Cynthia Jackson	Mattaponi River		31
8/4/2001	Matthew Sale	Private Pond	24 lbs., 01 oz.	32
8/5/2001	John Payne	Lake Smith	13 lbs., 12 oz.	34
8/6/2001	Nathan Street	Claytor Lake		32 1/2
8/7/2001	Tommy Potts	Shenandoah River		30 1/2
8/11/2001	Ty Travis Donald	Rappahannock River	21 lbs.	37
8/12/2001	David Foutz	James River		31
8/12/2001	Michael Campbell	All Other Waters	15 lbs., 04 oz.	35
8/13/2001	Joseph Fowler	Claytor Lake		30
8/13/2001	David Williams	Shenandoah River	14 lbs., 08 oz.	32
8/13/2001	Dexter Harris	Claytor Lake		31
8/13/2001	Harry Rixey	James River		31 1/2
8/15/2001	Cabell Powell, III	Private Pond	16 lbs.	30 1/4
8/18/2001	Michael Tilley	Mattaponi River	16 lbs.	31 1/4
8/18/2001	Tony Baker	North River	13 lbs.	30 1/4
8/18/2001	Thomas Heishman	Rappahannock River	21 lbs., 01 oz.	38 1/2
8/18/2001	Joseph Fowler	Claytor Lake		30 1/2
8/19/2001	Zachary Smith	Douthat Lake	13 lbs., 04 oz.	31
8/19/2001	William Charles	Chickahominy Lake	18 lbs., 03 oz.	33
8/23/2001	Austin Martin	Private Pond		33 3/4
8/25/2001	Kaleb Jessee	Private Pond		30
8/25/2001	Gregory Gallihugh	Chickahominy River		31
8/25/2001	Dexter Harris	Claytor Lake		30 1/4
8/26/2001	Danny Towe, Sr.	All Other Waters	12 lbs., 03 oz.	33 1/4
8/28/2001	Randy Ritter	All Other Waters	13 lbs.	30
8/28/2001	Charles Blum	Beaverdam Swamp Reservoir	13 lbs., 09 oz.	30
8/30/2001	David Hiner Jr.	Staunton River	23 lbs., 08 oz.	39 3/4
9/1/2001	William Charles	Chickahominy Lake	18 lbs., 01 oz.	33 1/2
9/1/2001	Richard Flinn	Potomac River	12 lbs., 08 oz.
9/1/2001	Thomas Drummond, Sr.	Lake Moomaw		31
9/1/2001	James Funkhouser Jr.	Shenandoah River		30 1/4
9/3/2001	Jason Artrip	Claytor Lake	13 lbs., 08 oz.	31
9/5/2001	Andrew Carroll	Private Pond		30 1/2
9/6/2001	Bobby Rosenbaum	Claytor Lake	12 lbs., 12 oz.
9/6/2001	Lorraine Pace	New River	16 lbs., 15 oz.	32
9/8/2001	David Hiner Jr.	All Other Waters	22 lbs., 04 oz.	38
9/8/2001	Dino Hallmark, Sr.	Hells Point Creek		35 1/2
9/8/2001	Dino Hallmark, Sr.	Hells Point Creek		32
9/15/2001	Chris Dahlem	James River		31
9/16/2001	Ranel Johnson	Beaverdam Swamp Reservoir	14 lbs., 05 oz.	30
9/16/2001	Woodrow Cosby	Beaverdam Swamp Reservoir		30
9/17/2001	Gerry Dooley	Mill Creek Reservoir	16 lbs., 12 oz.	32
9/19/2001	Charles Blum	Beaverdam Swamp Reservoir		30
9/21/2001	James Funkhouser Jr.	South Fork Shenandoah River		30 1/2
9/22/2001	Wade Hugh	Lake Brittle	18 lbs., 12 oz.	34 1/4
9/29/2001	Michael Shifflett	South Fork Shenandoah River	12 lbs., 10 oz.	30
10/1/2001	Robert Hummer Jr.	Briery Creek Lake	13 lbs., 08 oz.	32 1/4
10/4/2001	Jason Horton	Potomac River		30 1/2
10/6/2001	David Johnson	Claytor Lake	14 lbs., 12 oz.	31
10/7/2001	Robert Jennings	Back Bay	12 lbs., 08 oz.	31
10/8/2001	David Fagg, Jr.	Claytor Lake	18 lbs., 08 oz.	32
10/11/2001	John Cook Sr.	Chickahominy Lake	14 lbs., 05 oz.	31 1/4
10/11/2001	Ryan Thomas	Pamunkey River	12 lbs.	30 1/4
10/20/2001	Lawrence Parker	South Fork Shenandoah River	12 lbs., 04 oz.	30 3/4
10/20/2001	Dean Clark	Private Pond	13 lbs., 08 oz.	36
10/21/2001	Richard Brewer	Chickahominy Lake	12 lbs.	30
10/23/2001	Clyde Nicholson	South Fork Shenandoah River	13 lbs., 08 oz.	30
11/2/2001	Charles Blum	Beaverdam Swamp Reservoir		30
11/2/2001	Lawrence Parker	South Fork Shenandoah River		30 1/2
11/4/2001	Troy Barnes	James River		38
11/10/2001	Jesse Todd	Pamunkey River		31
11/15/2001	Charles Benfield, Jr.	James River	19 lbs.	32
11/16/2001	Karl Millsap	Chickahominy Lake	12 lbs., 08 oz.	32
11/17/2001	James Funkhouser Jr.	Shenandoah River	12 lbs., 08 oz.	31
11/17/2001	Lawrence Parker	South Fork Shenandoah River		30
11/20/2001	William Charles	James River	29 lbs., 04 oz.	34 3/4
11/24/2001	Brian Joyner	Nottoway River	13 lbs.
12/2/2001	Paula Cobb	James River	22 lbs.	37
12/2/2001	Paula Cobb	James River	30 lbs.	41
12/17/2001	Charles Markley	Smith Mountain Lake	12 lbs., 08 oz.	31
12/22/2001	Steve Rice	Chickahominy Lake		32
12/23/2001	Robert Koch Jr.	Chickahominy River	17 lbs., 04 oz.	34
12/28/2001	Charles Temple Jr.	James River	18 lbs., 01 oz.	32

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