Fish Citations

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Smallmouth Bass

Date of Catch	Angler	Waterbody	Weight	Length
1/3/2018	Timothy Dixon	New River		21
2/19/2018	William Dalton Jr.	New River		20 1/2
2/20/2018	Richmond McDaniel, Sr.	Rappahannock River		20 1/2
2/24/2018	Justin Largen	All Other Waters	4 lbs.	20
2/24/2018	Thomas Fontenot	Rappahannock River		20 1/4
2/25/2018	James Skinner	Rappahannock River		20
2/25/2018	James Skinner	Rappahannock River		21 1/4
2/25/2018	William Gallimore	Claytor Lake		20 1/2
2/25/2018	Thomas Fontenot	Rappahannock River		21
2/25/2018	Thomas Fontenot	Rappahannock River		20
3/1/2018	Mason Hallberg	Rappahannock River		20 1/2
3/1/2018	Richmond McDaniel, Sr.	Rappahannock River		20
3/1/2018	Richmond McDaniel, Sr.	Rappahannock River		20 1/2
3/10/2018	Kellam Brooks	Rappahannock River		21 1/2
3/18/2018	Eric Cockerham	New River		20
3/18/2018	Cabell Powell, III	James River		20
3/19/2018	Jerry Lynn Gray	James River		21 1/2
3/24/2018	James Leicester	Smith Mountain Lake	4 lbs., 4 oz.	20
3/29/2018	Zachary Puffenbarger	New River		26 3/4
3/30/2018	Christopher Bolt	Smith Mountain Lake	4 lbs.	20 1/2
3/30/2018	Christopher Bolt	Smith Mountain Lake	4 lbs.	20 1/4
3/31/2018	Scott Deffenbaugh	Maury River	5 lbs.	20
3/31/2018	Brady Lowe	Private Pond	5 lbs., 8 oz.	20 1/4
3/31/2018	Cindy Deffenbaugh	Maury River		20 1/2
3/31/2018	Cindy Deffenbaugh	Maury River		20 1/4
3/31/2018	Rowan Tanner	Smith Mountain Lake		21
4/5/2018	Randall Grove	North Fork Shenandoah River		20
4/6/2018	Creig Rogers Jr.	Smith Mountain Lake		21 1/2
4/6/2018	Tyler Jackins	Smith Mountain Lake	4 lbs., 8 oz.	20 1/2
4/7/2018	Douglas Odell	New River		20
4/7/2018	Douglas Odell	New River		20 3/4
4/8/2018	Lucas Hash	New River		20 3/4
4/8/2018	Marcus Long	Shenandoah River	6 lbs.	23
4/9/2018	William Shelhorse	New River		20 3/4
4/21/2018	Chip Jones	New River		20
4/21/2018	George Christian	James River		21
4/21/2018	Mark Bailey	New River		20 1/4
4/21/2018	Timothy Abbott	Lake Moomaw		20
4/21/2018	Curtis Hicks	Carvins Cove Lake		20
4/21/2018	Steven Stacy	All Other Waters	4 lbs., 3 oz.	20 1/4
4/24/2018	Gregory Anderson	New River	5 lbs., 4 oz.	21
4/25/2018	Shane Crawford, Jr.	Potomac River		20 1/4
4/27/2018	Dudley Redden	All Other Waters		20
4/27/2018	Timothy Abbott	Lake Moomaw		20
4/28/2018	Michael Minnick	Lake Moomaw		20 1/4
5/3/2018	Matthew Chapman	Shenandoah River	4 lbs., 12 oz.	20
5/4/2018	Christopher Bolt	Smith Mountain Lake	4 lbs., 10 oz.	20
5/4/2018	Landon Rogers	South Fork Shenandoah River	4 lbs., 13 oz.	21
5/4/2018	Chris Moxley	Private Pond	3 lbs., 4 oz.	20 1/4
5/5/2018	David Marsico	Smith Mountain Lake	4 lbs., 4 oz.	20
5/5/2018	Nick Lawson	New River		20 1/2
5/6/2018	Steven McMillan	Smith Mountain Lake		20
5/6/2018	William Davis	Smith Mountain Lake	5 lbs., 8 oz.	21 1/4
5/6/2018	Chris Rice	James River	4 lbs.	20 1/2
5/6/2018	Chris Rice	James River	4 lbs.	20 3/4
5/8/2018	Louis Don	South Holston Reservoir	5 lbs., 5 oz.	22
5/8/2018	Carroll Coleman	New River		20
5/8/2018	Carroll Coleman	New River		20 1/4
5/9/2018	Eugene Hamm	New River	4 lbs., 11 oz.	20
5/9/2018	Alan Harrington	North Fork Holston River		20
5/11/2018	Ted Calhoun	New River		20 3/4
5/12/2018	Benton Boyd	New River	5 lbs., 9 oz.	21 3/4
5/12/2018	Benton Boyd	New River	4 lbs., 12 oz.	21
5/12/2018	Kevin Kimm	Potomac River	4 lbs., 8 oz.	27 1/2
5/12/2018	William Goodwin	New River	4 lbs., 1 oz.	21
5/12/2018	Weston Hartman	Carvins Cove Lake		20
5/13/2018	Ted Calhoun	New River		20
5/17/2018	Dennie Thompson	Smith Mountain Lake		20
5/27/2018	Evan Hockenberger	New River		22 1/4
5/27/2018	Ted Calhoun	New River		23 1/4
5/28/2018	Juan Caravaca-Guasch, Sr.	South Fork Shenandoah River		20 1/2
5/30/2018	Ted Calhoun	New River		20 1/2
6/2/2018	Robert Hively	All Other Waters	3 lbs., 2 oz.	20 1/4
6/3/2018	Kendall Hall	Maury River	6 lbs., 1 oz.	21 1/2
6/4/2018	Joseph Martin	Smith Mountain Lake	5 lbs.	20 1/2
6/8/2018	Spence Francis	Smith Mountain Lake		20
6/9/2018	Chad Newman	New River		20
6/9/2018	Eric Cockerham	New River		21 1/2
6/11/2018	Tyler Justus	All Other Waters		20 1/2
6/15/2018	David Crosswhite	Smith Mountain Lake		20 3/4
6/15/2018	John Schutte	New River	4 lbs.	20
6/15/2018	John Schutte	New River	4 lbs.	21
6/16/2018	Larry Frazier	New River		20 3/4
6/17/2018	Edward Smith	Shenandoah River		21 1/4
6/17/2018	Chris Rice	James River	3 lbs., 8 oz.	20
6/17/2018	Cheryl McClellan	All Other Waters		22
6/17/2018	Douglas Odell	New River		21
6/18/2018	Tyler Justus	All Other Waters		20
6/20/2018	Tyler Justus	All Other Waters		21
6/21/2018	Nancy Martin	Smith Mountain Lake	5 lbs.	20
6/24/2018	John Olinger	New River		20 1/2
6/26/2018	Nathan Lesnak	Maury River	5 lbs., 8 oz.	22 1/4
6/29/2018	Tyler Justus	Dismal Creek		20
6/29/2018	Corey Rhoades	New River		22 1/2
6/29/2018	Douglas Odell	New River		20 3/4
6/30/2018	Charles Stanley	Shenandoah River		20 3/4
6/30/2018	Kendall Hall	Maury River	5 lbs., 9 oz.	21
7/1/2018	Matthew Rice	James River		20 1/2
7/2/2018	April Reedy	North Fork Shenandoah River		20 1/2
7/2/2018	Gabe Overstreet	Smith Mountain Lake		20 3/4
7/3/2018	Cody Rhoades	New River		20
7/4/2018	Ronald Hale	James River		20 1/4
7/4/2018	John Van Wyck IV	Shenandoah River		20
7/4/2018	Don Ehlers	South Fork Shenandoah River		20
7/5/2018	Douglas Odell	New River		21 1/4
7/6/2018	Mike Ostrander	James River		20 3/4
7/7/2018	Douglas Odell	New River		21
7/7/2018	Brayden Huffman	Jackson River	5 lbs., 3 oz.	20
7/7/2018	Hunter Street	New River	2 lbs., 1 oz.	20 1/4
7/8/2018	Hunter Street	New River	3 lbs., 8 oz.	21 1/4
7/8/2018	Matthew McGraw	Jackson River		2 1/2
7/9/2018	Duane Barlow	South Fork Shenandoah River	4 lbs., 8 oz.	21 1/2
7/10/2018	Stephen Cromer, Jr	Claytor Lake		21 1/2
7/13/2018	Christopher Rhoades	New River		20
7/14/2018	Eric Cockerham	New River		20 1/4
7/14/2018	Douglas Odell	New River		20 1/2
7/14/2018	William Lyne, III	James River		20 1/2
7/15/2018	Douglas Odell	New River		20 3/4
7/15/2018	Stephen Cromer, Jr	Claytor Lake		22
7/18/2018	Christopher Maslow	James River		20
7/19/2018	Christopher Deane	James River		20 1/2
7/20/2018	Michael Williams	South Fork Shenandoah River		20 1/4
7/20/2018	Ryan Delgado	North Anna River	4 lbs., 10 oz.	20 3/4
7/22/2018	Eric Cockerham	New River		21
7/26/2018	Nathan Sowder	New River		20 1/2
7/26/2018	Eric Cockerham	New River		20
7/28/2018	Joshua Schaaf	New River	3 lbs., 9 oz.	20
8/5/2018	Cody Wilson	Lake Moomaw	3 lbs., 2 oz.	21
8/10/2018	J. Patrick Frazier	New River		25
8/11/2018	Rebecca Mills	James River	5 lbs.	21 1/4
8/11/2018	Bradford Whitacre	Holiday Lake	3 lbs., 15 oz.	21 1/2
8/11/2018	Henry Clee	Smith Mountain Lake	5 lbs., 13 oz.	22
8/13/2018	Alan Harrington	Middle Fork Holston		20
8/15/2018	Joshua Persinger	Lake Moomaw		21
8/17/2018	William McCoy	New River	5 lbs., 1 oz.	21
8/18/2018	Jesse Boyd	New River	3 lbs., 9 oz.	20
8/19/2018	Matthew McGraw	Jackson River		20 1/2
8/20/2018	James Mabry	Carvins Cove Lake		20 1/2
8/24/2018	Jeremy Busam	Lake Moomaw		20 1/2
8/24/2018	Freddie Childs Jr.	New River		21 1/4
8/25/2018	Keith Manuel	Smith Mountain Lake		20 3/4
8/25/2018	Michael Treadway Sr.	Claytor Lake	3 lbs., 14 oz.	21
8/26/2018	John Van Wyck IV	Shenandoah River		20
8/26/2018	Cary Fulp	New River		20 1/2
8/28/2018	Raymond Hitney	New River		21
8/29/2018	Duane Smith	New River		20 1/2
8/30/2018	Carroll Coleman	New River		20
8/31/2018	Thomas Cormier	Rappahannock River		20 1/4
9/2/2018	Jeffrey Webb	Chickahominy River		23 1/2
9/3/2018	Brian Bristow	Claytor Lake	4 lbs.	20 1/2
9/6/2018	John Glover	New River	4 lbs., 8 oz.	20
9/8/2018	Natalie Solomon	Potomac River	5 lbs.	21
9/8/2018	Eric Cockerham	New River		20 3/4
9/8/2018	Randall Grove	North Fork Shenandoah River		20 1/4
9/13/2018	Curtis Hicks	James River		20
9/21/2018	Eric Earls	Lake Moomaw		20
9/28/2018	David Crosswhite	Smith Mountain Lake		20
9/30/2018	Bruce Branham	Smith Mountain Lake		20 3/4
9/30/2018	Kyler Jenkins	Smith Mountain Lake		20 1/2
10/4/2018	Jody Cussins	North Fork Holston River		20
10/5/2018	David Crosswhite	Smith Mountain Lake		20 3/4
10/6/2018	Wesley Conley	New River		20
10/6/2018	Britton Tran	James River		21
10/6/2018	David Onks III	Rappahannock River		21 1/4
10/7/2018	David Crosswhite	Smith Mountain Lake		20 1/4
10/8/2018	Bruce Branham	Smith Mountain Lake		20 1/2
10/9/2018	James Mabry	Carvins Cove Lake		20 1/4
10/10/2018	Anthony Koch	James River		20 1/4
10/20/2018	Jason Money	Potomac River	3 lbs., 11 oz.	20
10/20/2018	Eric Cockerham	New River		21
10/22/2018	Matthew Chapman	Shenandoah River	5 lbs., 2 oz.	20 1/4
10/24/2018	John Schutte	Claytor Lake	4 lbs., 8 oz.	21 1/2
10/28/2018	Tyson Uzzell	Lake Moomaw	5 lbs., 11 oz.	21 3/4
10/29/2018	Donald Jenkins	Shenandoah River		20
10/31/2018	Joe Burwell, Sr.	New River	5 lbs., 8 oz.	22 1/4
11/1/2018	Joe Lucus	James River		20 3/4
11/2/2018	Kellam Brooks	Rappahannock River		20
11/5/2018	Timothy Dixon	New River		21 1/4
11/14/2018	Charles Kinzer, Jr.	New River		20 3/4
11/19/2018	Timothy Dixon	New River		20
11/23/2018	Kellam Brooks	Rappahannock River		20 1/4
11/25/2018	Joe Burwell, Sr.	Smith Mountain Lake	6 lbs., 6 oz.	22
11/26/2018	Timothy Dixon	New River		20
12/1/2018	David Shannon	Lake Moomaw		20
12/2/2018	Thomas Fontenot	Rappahannock River		20 1/4
12/5/2018	Timothy Dixon	New River		20 1/4
12/8/2018	Stacy Bolt	Smith Mountain Lake	4 lbs.	21 1/4
12/9/2018	Molly Fontenot	Rappahannock River		21 1/2
12/9/2018	James Skinner	Rappahannock River		20 1/4
12/9/2018	James Skinner	Rappahannock River		20 1/4
12/9/2018	Thomas Fontenot	Rappahannock River		21
12/9/2018	Thomas Fontenot	Rappahannock River		20 1/2
12/12/2018	Earl Martin Jr.	New River	4 lbs., 4 oz.	20 1/2
12/13/2018	Earl Martin Jr.	New River	4 lbs.	20 1/2
12/19/2018	Timothy Dixon	New River		21 1/2

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