Fish Citations

To view citations by species and body of water from 2020 to present day. Visit the Go Outdoors Virginia: Angler Recognition Program website. In the bottom left corner under “Trophy Catch Submissions” you can click to “view all” awarded citations.

JAMES RIVER

Date of Catch	Angler	Species	Weight	Length
1/27/2018	Jason James	Blue Catfish	44 lbs.
1/27/2018	Richard George	Blue Catfish	30 lbs.	38
2/16/2018	Charles Crump Jr.	Blue Catfish	30 lbs., 4 oz.	32
2/18/2018	Kristi Madison	Blue Catfish	32 lbs.
2/18/2018	Kristi Madison	Blue Catfish	32 lbs.
2/18/2018	Kristi Madison	Blue Catfish	44 lbs.
2/18/2018	Kristi Madison	Blue Catfish	31 lbs.
2/18/2018	Kristi Madison	Blue Catfish	47 lbs.
2/19/2018	Neal Ervin	Blue Catfish	67 lbs.	45
2/19/2018	Daniel Ackerman	Blue Catfish		42
2/19/2018	Camrin Stuckey	Blue Catfish		41
2/24/2018	Neal Fox	Blue Catfish	43 lbs.
2/24/2018	Arthur Miller	Blue Catfish	43 lbs.	43
2/24/2018	Charles Boxley	Blue Catfish	40 lbs.
2/25/2018	Steven Moore	Blue Catfish	33 lbs.	38
3/1/2018	Andrew Bagwell	Blue Catfish	39 lbs.
3/1/2018	Andrew Bagwell	Blue Catfish	28 lbs.	38
3/10/2018	Dalton Karnes	Blue Catfish	42 lbs.	43
3/10/2018	Lauren Terrell	Blue Catfish	35 lbs.	43
3/10/2018	Lauren Terrell	Blue Catfish	26 lbs.	39
3/12/2018	Drew Gibbons	Blue Catfish	81 lbs.	52
3/17/2018	Ron Porter	Blue Catfish	41 lbs.	42
3/18/2018	Jarrod Sowell	Blue Catfish	31 lbs.	40
3/18/2018	Michael Minnick	Blue Catfish	37 lbs.	41
3/18/2018	Cabell Powell, III	Smallmouth Bass		20
3/19/2018	Jerry Lynn Gray	Smallmouth Bass		21 1/2
3/19/2018	Adam Rodes	Blue Catfish	53 lbs.	41 3/4
3/19/2018	Adam Rodes	Flathead Catfish	33 lbs.	41 3/4
3/23/2018	James Young	Muskellunge		43
3/24/2018	Bubba Wallace	Blue Catfish	39 lbs., 1 oz.
3/24/2018	Cheryl Smith	Blue Catfish	48 lbs.	45
3/24/2018	Robert Smith	Blue Catfish	39 lbs.	41
3/25/2018	Evan Bowers	Blue Catfish	45 lbs.
3/25/2018	Zac Bowers	Blue Catfish	39 lbs.
3/25/2018	Zac Bowers	Blue Catfish	46 lbs.
3/28/2018	Jacob Dmytryszyn	Blue Catfish	43 lbs.	42
3/30/2018	Jason Burton	Blue Catfish	68 lbs.
3/31/2018	Edward Jordan, Jr.	Largemouth Bass	6 lbs., 10 oz.	22 3/4
3/31/2018	Marcos Lusso	Blue Catfish	55 lbs., 14 oz.	38
4/1/2018	Cabell Powell, III	Flathead Catfish		40
4/2/2018	Kaden Smith	Blue Catfish	45 lbs., 8 oz.	44 3/4
4/2/2018	Kaden Smith	Blue Catfish	33 lbs., 2 oz.	38
4/3/2018	Benjamin White	Blue Catfish	61 lbs.	48
4/3/2018	Benjamin White	Blue Catfish	36 lbs.	40
4/5/2018	Frederick Wentzien	Blue Catfish		42
4/6/2018	Russell Willoughby	Blue Catfish	64 lbs.	48
4/7/2018	Timothy Sanford	Blue Catfish	68 lbs.
4/14/2018	Frank Hart III	Yellow Perch		12
4/16/2018	Lynwood Miles Jr.	Channel Catfish	14 lbs., 3 oz.	33 1/4
4/21/2018	George Christian	Smallmouth Bass		21
4/21/2018	Tyler Downs	Blue Catfish	33 lbs., 8 oz.	38
4/21/2018	Marcos Lusso	Blue Catfish	42 lbs., 3 oz.	42
4/23/2018	Vance Willis	White Perch	1 lbs., 7 oz.	13 3/4
4/28/2018	Caleb Holloman	Blue Catfish	45 lbs.	41 1/4
4/28/2018	Henry Bagwell	Blue Catfish	30 lbs., 8 oz.	37
4/29/2018	Jason Bass	Blue Catfish	55 lbs.	44
4/30/2018	George Jones	Blue Catfish	47 lbs.	42
4/30/2018	George Christian	Flathead Catfish		42
5/1/2018	Aaron Patterson	Largemouth Bass	7 lbs., 5 oz.	23 3/4
5/2/2018	Jarrod Wray	Blue Catfish		45 1/2
5/3/2018	James Wells	Blue Catfish	38 lbs.	39 1/4
5/3/2018	James Wells	Blue Catfish	52 lbs.	44
5/3/2018	Bryan Shifflet	Flathead Catfish	33 lbs.	40
5/3/2018	Bryan Shifflet	Flathead Catfish	29 lbs.	38
5/3/2018	Christopher Shifflett	Flathead Catfish	27 lbs.	40
5/5/2018	Kenneth Murray	Blue Catfish	60 lbs.	56
5/5/2018	Evan Gregg	Blue Catfish	30 lbs.	40
5/5/2018	Tucker Shannon	Blue Catfish	33 lbs., 8 oz.	38
5/5/2018	Jacob Nizon	Flathead Catfish	37 lbs.	41
5/6/2018	Jacob Nizon	Flathead Catfish	30 lbs.
5/6/2018	Jacob Nizon	Flathead Catfish	30 lbs.
5/6/2018	Jacob Nizon	Flathead Catfish	31 lbs.
5/6/2018	Jacob Nizon	Flathead Catfish	33 lbs.
5/6/2018	Jacob Nizon	Flathead Catfish	34 lbs.	39
5/6/2018	Christopher Shifflett	Flathead Catfish	42 lbs.	42 1/2
5/6/2018	Christopher Shifflett	Flathead Catfish	38 lbs.	41 1/2
5/6/2018	Christopher Shifflett	Flathead Catfish	39 lbs.	41 3/4
5/6/2018	Christopher Shifflett	Flathead Catfish	29 lbs.	35 1/4
5/6/2018	Christopher Shifflett	Flathead Catfish	28 lbs.	37
5/6/2018	Bryan Shifflet	Flathead Catfish	30 lbs.	37 1/2
5/6/2018	Bryan Shifflet	Flathead Catfish	33 lbs.	40 1/4
5/6/2018	Chris Rice	Smallmouth Bass	4 lbs.	20 1/2
5/6/2018	Chris Rice	Smallmouth Bass	4 lbs.	20 3/4
5/7/2018	Richard Hykes	Flathead Catfish	29 lbs.	36
5/8/2018	Carl Martin Jr.	Crappie	1 lbs., 8 oz.	15 1/4
5/8/2018	Stephen Miklandric	Flathead Catfish	46 lbs., 8 oz.	45
5/9/2018	Christopher Shifflett	Flathead Catfish	26 lbs.	35 1/2
5/10/2018	Don Crook	Muskellunge		42
5/11/2018	Stephen Miklandric	Flathead Catfish	27 lbs., 10 oz.	39
5/11/2018	Evan Gregg	Gar	8 lbs.	48
5/11/2018	Samuel Bryant	Blue Catfish	27 lbs.	38
5/11/2018	Ronald Bowery	Crappie		15
5/11/2018	Dennis Buisset	Crappie		15
5/13/2018	Christopher Shifflett	Flathead Catfish	30 lbs.	38
5/13/2018	Christopher Shifflett	Flathead Catfish	25 lbs.	37
5/13/2018	Edward Jordan, Jr.	Largemouth Bass	6 lbs., 3 oz.	22 1/4
5/14/2018	Stephen Miklandric	Flathead Catfish	34 lbs., 12 oz.	41
5/30/2018	Dennis Buisset	Largemouth Bass		22 1/4
6/9/2018	Nathan Draper	Muskellunge	17 lbs.	40
6/17/2018	Chris Rice	Smallmouth Bass	3 lbs., 8 oz.	20
6/17/2018	Christopher Shifflett	Flathead Catfish	32 lbs.	40
6/18/2018	Joshua Coffey	Blue Catfish	32 lbs.	41
6/22/2018	Bryan Woods	Muskellunge		43
6/26/2018	Nicholas Eisner	Blue Catfish	35 lbs.	38 1/2
6/26/2018	Daniel Kirby	Blue Catfish	45 lbs.	2 1/2
6/28/2018	Mason Cox	Blue Catfish		41
6/30/2018	Michael Plumb Sr.	Muskellunge		41 1/2
6/30/2018	Michael Plumb Sr.	Muskellunge		40 1/2
7/1/2018	Nicholas Eisner	Blue Catfish	40 lbs.	39 1/2
7/1/2018	Leon Gring	Blue Catfish	38 lbs.	42
7/1/2018	Matthew Rice	Smallmouth Bass		20 1/2
7/2/2018	Braxton Sykora	Blue Catfish	36 lbs.	42
7/2/2018	Dawson Sykora	Blue Catfish	60 lbs.	49
7/3/2018	Tabatha Peer	Blue Catfish	40 lbs.	41
7/4/2018	Gabriel Blanche	Blue Catfish		51
7/4/2018	Ronald Hale	Smallmouth Bass		20 1/4
7/6/2018	Mike Ostrander	Smallmouth Bass		20 3/4
7/12/2018	Michael Beck	Blue Catfish	45 lbs.	47
7/13/2018	Gary Clark II	Gar		41 3/4
7/14/2018	William Lyne, III	Smallmouth Bass		20 1/2
7/15/2018	Timothy Gilmore	Flathead Catfish		40
7/18/2018	Christopher Maslow	Smallmouth Bass		20
7/18/2018	Wayne St. John	Walleye	6 lbs., 5 oz.	25 1/2
7/18/2018	Gabriel Blanche	Blue Catfish		41
7/19/2018	Christopher Deane	Smallmouth Bass		20 1/2
7/28/2018	Andrew Surface	Blue Catfish	71 lbs.
7/28/2018	Patrick Robertson	Muskellunge	14 lbs., 8 oz.	40 1/4
7/28/2018	Michael Fields	Flathead Catfish	25 lbs., 7 oz.	38
7/29/2018	Keith Huskey	Gar		41
7/29/2018	Keith Huskey	Blue Catfish		41
8/3/2018	Evan Barnard	Blue Catfish	35 lbs.	40
8/3/2018	Daniel Webb	Blue Catfish	34 lbs.	42
8/9/2018	James Wells	Blue Catfish	48 lbs.	41 1/2
8/11/2018	Rebecca Mills	Smallmouth Bass	5 lbs.	21 1/4
8/12/2018	Hannah Broadwater	Blue Catfish	35 lbs.	38 3/4
8/15/2018	Richard Morgan	Blue Catfish	37 lbs.	40
8/15/2018	Richard Morgan	Blue Catfish	37 lbs.	39
8/16/2018	Elizabeth Anderson	Blue Catfish	37 lbs.	37 1/4
8/17/2018	Samuel Bryant	Blue Catfish	35 lbs.	39 1/2
8/18/2018	Hunter Landes	Muskellunge	22 lbs.	45
8/18/2018	Brain Shepard	Blue Catfish	35 lbs.
8/18/2018	Brain Shepard	Blue Catfish	47 lbs.
8/23/2018	Jonathan Huffman	Blue Catfish	35 lbs., 15 oz.	45 1/4
8/24/2018	Jessica Knight	Blue Catfish	56 lbs., 13 oz.	50
8/24/2018	Jessica Knight	Blue Catfish	45 lbs., 15 oz.	47 1/2
8/24/2018	Evan Gregg	Blue Catfish	41 lbs.	42 1/2
8/25/2018	Jonathan Huffman	Gar	14 lbs., 9 oz.	42 3/4
8/25/2018	Jonathan Huffman	Blue Catfish	38 lbs., 13 oz.	41 1/2
8/26/2018	Herbert Brown	Flathead Catfish	48 lbs., 12 oz.	44 1/2
8/26/2018	Steven Lunsford	Blue Catfish	50 lbs.	46
8/26/2018	Meghan Lunsford	Blue Catfish	40 lbs.	44
8/28/2018	Elizabeth Anderson	Blue Catfish	50 lbs.	41 1/2
8/31/2018	Madilyn Mozucha	Blue Catfish		38
8/31/2018	Richard Morgan	Blue Catfish	44 lbs.	42
9/3/2018	Michael Hill	Gar		40
9/3/2018	Camden Lunsford	Blue Catfish	38 lbs.	43
9/6/2018	Jonathan Huffman	Blue Catfish	35 lbs., 8 oz.	42
9/6/2018	Jonathan Huffman	Blue Catfish	35 lbs., 4 oz.	40 1/4
9/7/2018	Jonathan Huffman	Gar	12 lbs., 9 oz.	39 1/2
9/7/2018	Jonathan Huffman	Blue Catfish	45 lbs., 12 oz.	41 1/2
9/7/2018	Jonathan Huffman	Gar	14 lbs., 8 oz.	49
9/7/2018	Jonathan Huffman	Blue Catfish	40 lbs., 14 oz.	44
9/7/2018	Jonathan Huffman	Flathead Catfish	29 lbs., 1 oz.	37 3/4
9/7/2018	Darrell Vaughn III	Blue Catfish	53 lbs., 12 oz.	43
9/7/2018	Ryan Willard	Blue Catfish	34 lbs.	40
9/7/2018	Elizabeth Anderson	Blue Catfish	64 lbs.	43 1/4
9/8/2018	Darrell Vaughn III	Blue Catfish	30 lbs., 15 oz.	39 1/2
9/8/2018	Darrell Vaughn III	Blue Catfish	50 lbs., 15 oz.	45 1/4
9/8/2018	Jonathan Huffman	Blue Catfish	66 lbs., 10 oz.	46 1/2
9/8/2018	Jonathan Huffman	Blue Catfish	51 lbs., 10 oz.	45 1/2
9/8/2018	Jonathan Huffman	Blue Catfish	67 lbs., 15 oz.	48 1/2
9/13/2018	Curtis Hicks	Smallmouth Bass		20
9/22/2018	Branden David	Blue Catfish	30 lbs.	42 3/4
10/6/2018	Britton Tran	Smallmouth Bass		21
10/7/2018	Daniel Patterson	Blue Catfish	50 lbs., 4 oz.
10/7/2018	Anthony Gray	Largemouth Bass	9 lbs., 7 oz.	24 1/4
10/8/2018	Richard Grabowski	Blue Catfish	47 lbs.
10/10/2018	Anthony Koch	Smallmouth Bass		20 1/4
10/12/2018	Matthew Ryan	Blue Catfish	44 lbs.	46
10/17/2018	Andrew East	Flathead Catfish	42 lbs.
10/18/2018	Thomas Coley, Jr	Blue Catfish	47 lbs.	42
10/19/2018	Thomas Coley, Jr	Blue Catfish	51 lbs.	46
10/19/2018	Thomas McCoy	Blue Catfish	36 lbs.	41
10/20/2018	Bryce Ferguson	Blue Catfish	48 lbs.
10/27/2018	Daniel Patterson	Walleye	5 lbs., 11 oz.	26 1/2
10/28/2018	David Jones	Blue Catfish	30 lbs., 4 oz.
10/28/2018	Ricky Prillaman	Blue Catfish	34 lbs., 5 oz.
10/28/2018	Mickey Prillaman	Blue Catfish	41 lbs., 4 oz.
10/29/2018	Jonathan Huffman	Flathead Catfish	31 lbs., 14 oz.	40
10/29/2018	Jonathan Huffman	Blue Catfish	71 lbs., 11 oz.	47 1/2
10/29/2018	James Mason	Blue Catfish	35 lbs.
10/29/2018	Blaine Evans	Blue Catfish	32 lbs.
10/30/2018	Jonathan Huffman	Blue Catfish	57 lbs., 1 oz.	48
10/30/2018	Jonathan Huffman	Blue Catfish	87 lbs., 2 oz.	53 3/4
11/1/2018	J. Patrick Frazier	Carp		36
11/1/2018	Joe Lucus	Smallmouth Bass		20 3/4
11/4/2018	Larry Scarborough Jr.	Muskellunge		42
11/4/2018	Larry Scarborough Jr.	Muskellunge		48
11/8/2018	Nancy Fannin	Blue Catfish	58 lbs.
11/8/2018	Robert Fannin	Blue Catfish	37 lbs.
11/12/2018	Joshua Schaaf	Blue Catfish	33 lbs.	38
11/13/2018	Frederick Reid	Blue Catfish	50 lbs.	42
11/13/2018	Frederick Reid	Blue Catfish	58 lbs.	48
11/17/2018	Curtis Colgin	Blue Catfish	33 lbs.
11/17/2018	Curtis Colgin	Blue Catfish	37 lbs.
11/17/2018	Adrian Ellis	Blue Catfish	53 lbs.
11/17/2018	Adrian Ellis	Blue Catfish	43 lbs.
11/17/2018	Adrian Ellis	Blue Catfish	34 lbs.
11/17/2018	Adrian Ellis	Blue Catfish	34 lbs.
11/17/2018	Adrian Ellis	Blue Catfish	33 lbs.
11/17/2018	Adrian Ellis	Blue Catfish	30 lbs.
11/17/2018	Wendy Jones	Blue Catfish	67 lbs.
11/21/2018	Robert "Bobby" Hart, IV	Blue Catfish	30 lbs.	38
11/22/2018	Curtis Colgin	Blue Catfish	39 lbs.
11/22/2018	Curtis Colgin	Blue Catfish	46 lbs.
11/22/2018	Donald Shaneberger	Blue Catfish	38 lbs.
11/23/2018	Curtis Hardison, Jr.	Blue Catfish	35 lbs.	38
11/25/2018	Sam Cosnotti Jr.	Blue Catfish	70 lbs.	50
12/1/2018	Frank Hart III	Blue Catfish	55 lbs.	46
12/2/2018	Don Crook	Muskellunge		46
12/6/2018	James Pearman Jr.	Blue Catfish		38 3/4
12/14/2018	Michael Minnick	Blue Catfish	32 lbs.	28 1/4
12/24/2018	Ethan Newton	Blue Catfish	47 lbs.
12/29/2018	Nicholas Nolasco	Blue Catfish	39 lbs., 9 oz.	41 1/2

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