Aug 28 2022
TRI VO
Slot Fish
Reservation Number : 33593
Property Name : Culpepper Farms
Reservation Date : 08/27/2022 PM - 08/27/2022 PM
Total Fish/Sizes : 13
Lures Used : Spinnerbait, Crankbait, Chatterbait, Swim baits, Rattletrap
First time to Culpepper and it was a nice short drive compared to others. The property was beautiful. Launched the property's jon boat around 1:30. The 12' jon boat was very nice and new. Loved the stability for standing and side counters to lay your rods flat! You can tell already that the water level was down about 3-4' based on the end of the ramp almost coming out of the water. Glad i didn't take my smaller boat and trailer. I didn't know it was supposed to rain but it rained for an hour after arriving 30 minutes later. Finally, got out around 4 and fished until 7:30. It wasn't hard to fish the entire pond because of the water level. It was a bit of a struggle to find fish because most of the structures were out of the water. Mainly caught fish around shallow rocks and pilings. There's not much structures for the bass to relate to with the water level down. There's grass growing on the areas out of the water which will be a huge benefit when it fills back up. Ended up with 13 bass from 13'-17' and culled 4. The bass were caught shallow. Lost a good one about 6# at the boat playing with it instead of netting it. She was at the dam in 2' of water. Deepest depth I found was 8-9'. Colors most effective were chartreuse and shad. Water was dingy and temp was 87. Thank you owner and PWF!
Aug 29 2022
John Freeman
Slot Fish
Member Since :
2020
Number of Posts :
243
Culpepper is one of my favorite closed to the house lakes. Lake has a bunch of those 14-17’ers in it with a few good ones as well. My 2nd largest of the year came from there this past spring (7lb 1 oz). Last time I was there all fish came from 2’ or less. There may be low O2. There was also an algae bloom last time I was there. I think Tara and Culpepper would benefit from an aereator this time of year. The water dingy kinda like Tara, a turbid healthy system. It will be better over the winter. I could see that rain storm form my house, and was hoping it was heading my way, but didn’t. Good job.