The Chickahominy River is not bad. In my opinion, coming from Hampton, putting in at Riverfront Park is probably the easiest thing to do, as getting back on the highway to get back to Hampton is simple from there.I would run all the way up to any of the entering creeks in the upper 1/3rd of the chick. Id say…..stay within 4 or 5 miles of the walker dam. For me, Ive caught a heck of alot of fish on topwater frogs or similar baits, pulled across the grass and pads. Youll essentially find the vegitation to be round type pads in super shallow water….followed by hydrilla out in alittle deeper water, followed by arrow head type pads along the deeper edge. Id try and hit it somewhere a couple hours before and a couple hours after the low tide. Id quickly run a topwater weedless bait of your choice across the top.High tide is a pain in the rear. Those fish drive up into those rounded pads….and its just so thick its hard to really target those fish…..but at low tide, when that water pulls out, those fish pull out to the grass and the arrow heads and you can get them to bite. In all likelyhood, youre looking at alot of small fish. I just fished the Bassmaster Weekend Series regional up there…and on day 1, I probably caught (30)…but only had (2) keepers. On day two, I caught 20+ and only had (3) keepers. There were a couple of 8+ lb fish weighed…..but you look at the tourney results, only (12) guys out of 85 had limits both days….and the weights were very low. Cristina Bradley finished 4th in a BassCat and only had 11lbs each day.
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