Rich Welden
Wins Lake Anna tournament
I've only fished Lake Anna four times since 1998 and have always focused on the Pamonkey creek, Terry's and Foremost Run areas on the Northwest side of Lake Anna for my tx successes. This past club tournament was no exception.
The water at the extreme ends of those creek arms, to include Foremost Run (at the entrance to Terry's Run) is usually stained which makes catching bass in those areas easier than the clearer water areas throughout the lake. Additionally, there are large flats located in those areas which tend to warm up faster. On tx day water temp was 74 degrees at noon while other areas in
the lake were 70-71. I think this was key due to the low to mid 40 degree temperatures over the past few nights.
My partner and I started in Foremost Run around 0900 and
focused on topwater and chatter baits. I caught my first keeper fish on a
white and chartruese buzz bait around a dock with reeds near at about 0930. Ilya
then caught his only keeper fish (1.14lbs) near an adjacent dock on a white chatter
bait w/silver blade. We then circled between three docks for the rest of the day
where I was able to pick up three more keeper fish. Other lures that worked for
me were a green pumpkin 4" Senko which was wacky-rigged and skipped under
the docks to produce three other keeper bass. Over all, the day was nice and the
company nicer. I ended up with 5.03 lbs for first place and Ilya took seconds place
and lunker with his sole 1.14lb Largemouth
Other photos from the Lake Anna club tournament
Results and points
| First | Last | Lunker | Total | Big Dawg | |||
| Name | Name | # Fish | Penalty | Lbs / oz | Lbs / oz | Points | |
| 1 | Rich | Welden | 4 | 1 - 13 | 5 - 03 | 20 | |
| 2 | Ilya | Sergeyko | 1 | 1 - 14 | 2 - 2 | -- | |
| 3 | Ed | Malone | 1 | 1 - 7 | 2 - 1 | 18 | |
| 5 | George | Loope | 1 | -3 lbs | 1 - 01 | 0 | 17 |
| 5 | Bob | Bokulic | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | |
| 5 | Charlie | Jackson | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | |
| 5 | Dean | Garrish | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | |
| 5 | Kevin | Mahonney | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 |











