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Citation Requirements:
Blue Catfish ... 38" or 30 lbs
Channel Catfish ... 30" or 12 lbs
Flathead Catfish ... 40" or 25 lbs
Sunfish ... 11" or 1 lb
Large Mouth Bass ... 22" or 8 lbs
Small Mouth Bass ... 20" or 5 lbs
White Bass ... 18" or 2 lbs 8 oz
Crappie ... 15" or 2 lbs
Walleye ... 25" or 5 lbs
Striper ... 37" or 20 lbs
White Perch ... 13" or 1 ¼ lbs
Yellow Perch ... 12" or 1 ¼ lbs
Chain Pickerel ... 24" or 4 lbs
Carp ... 34" or 20 lbs
Gar ... 40" or 10 lbs
Bowfin ... 30" or 10 lbs


2009 Catches of the Day
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Adam Morris w/ a 65 on 12/12/09 in Difficult creek. Ice bowl ready.
Fishbud's son Matt Crumpton with a couple of 28" fat stripers caught in Grassy on our hand tied bucktails. This was the greatest Christmas gift to spend quality time with my son...priceless. FB
Scotts pb 52 lbs caught at Goat Island on shad.
Caught 11/25/09 on a gold Hopkins near buoy #4. Fish was released.
Caught on a weedless 1/4 oz. spoon with a gold grub. Birds were working and the fish were hitting live bait. We fished wild eyed shad, but the fish wouldn't hit that, I switched to the spoon and got a hook up on about the third cast and the bite was over.
JP caught these two on crankbaits near the Nutbush Peninsula on 11/29
11-29-09 big Crappie 2.75 caught while fishing with Fishdoc.
Adam Morris w/ a 53 caught on 12/11/09 in some deep water.
Me and Hogg had a great day on buggs. 70lbs, caught near bluestone on shad.
This is a 16 inch Crappie caught on Rudds Creek on October 13, 2009 by Carolyn Moran.
This is Carolyn's 16 inch Crappie, and her husband James caught the little 14 1/2 inch crappie. Caught at Rudds Creek on October 13th with a minnow.
This a 17 inch Large mouth Bass caught at Rudds Creek on October 14th, 2009. We were fishing for crappie and Carolyn Moran caught this instead.
This Is a 14/12 inch crappie caught at Rudds Creek by James Moran on October 14th, 2009
Crappie fishing with the fish Dr .. 10/23/2009
Crappie fishing with the fish Dr .. 10/23/2009
Here is Adam Beaty with one of many stripers caught on 11-10-09. Used live shad and hopkins spoons for bait, caught near junkmans curve while fishing with the Teacher.
Here is Adam Beaty with a Kerr Lake striper, caught on a swim bait at 7:30 am 11-21-09. One of many caught out of the school.
Me and hogg had a great day on buggs, my pb, 64lbs. caught on shad near bluestone
Here is Adam with one of many stripers caught on 10-1-09, all caught on live shad while fishing with the Teacher.
Greg Pulliam caught this 39in. 31 lb. Blue on 10-1-09.
Here is what seems to be an average sized striper here on Kerr lately, the big ones are few and far between. but it beets getting skunked. Caught Oct 3 near Ivy Hill on live bait.
Caught on 10/4/09 using SS Minnows. 30 inches long, first striper of the season from Lake Gaston.
Talked my Dad into going on his first Catfish Trip with me & Trip on 10-10-09. He Caught 4 Flatheads. Little did he know he would catch a 42.6 lb-er big enough to win the KLCA Open!!
Attached is a photo taken on Kerr Lake (in the "Gator Hole") on August 22, 2009. In the photo: JimJam (Jimmy) Clark. Catfish: 39.5" long, 27-28 lbs.
Mike Bird caught this bass with a crankbait on 9-3. I think it is about 3 pounds but did not weigh this beauty. This was my first bass catch as I am new to the fishing game. I am hooked!!
Devins 1st flathead
Greg Pulliam caught this 49 inch gar in the Buffalo area on 9-18 09.
Samantha and Paige Garrard catch their first fish (yes, CATFISH!) aboard the Kerr-Lina Kat with Uncle Phillip and Aunt Diane".
Ed and Kaye with a blue cat 8-29-09 caught at the bridges with a minnow.
Here is Laura Beaty with a nice Kerr lake blue caught on 9-7-09 caught on shad while fishing with the teacher.
Shane and PaPa on dock on Nutbush, Shanes loves to catch fish, Take a Kid Fishing!
Here is Brock Overton with a catfish he got while fishing with Jaybee. Caught on shrimp in Buggs while fishing 8/30/09.
Brock shows it's all about the tackle with this little channel cat!
Hello, my nephew and I caught this 37” catfish and it weighed 21lb. We caught it out from Satterwhite Point on July 30, 2009.
This is Salomon catching a nice Catfish in the cove at Somerset on Sunday evening. NICE!
Here is a picture of a fish that I caught in Kerr. I would like to see if any other fishermen have caught one in Kerr or anywhere else. I have other pictures is you would like to post them
This striper was caught by Georgie Allgood on Aug 23, 2009. While fishing out on the boat at Henderson Point with mom (Sallie), dad (Jimmy), and family friend Brian. The striper was 31 1/2 in. long and 15 lbs.
Evan Warden caught this large mouth bass off of our dock on the main channel across from Bluestone Creek with a live a crawdad. Proud lil brother Noah is at is side!
Tony Brown w/ 2lb. LMB caught 7-18-09 at the bridge on a minnow.
Here is a Fater/Daughter fishing team AKA Deadeye and Pandabear09 inspecting their catch and having a blast.
Matthew Nevils caught these two Bass using live bait near Satterwhite Point on 7-25-09.
This fish was caught by High Pockets 7-25-09 on Kerr Lake around goat island. It was caught trolling for stripers on a Sutton Spoon. It was 48" long and weighed 55lbs.
Hello, My nephew Kyle caught this nice 27” catfish on August 1 2009. We caught it near the water treatment plant.
This 13.3 oz fish was caught by David White fishing with Billy Sizemore, Sat July 18, 2009 using live bait.
Dave with the first two stripers caught july 11th . This turned out to be the best day we ever had on the ROCKCRUSHER. Thanks G - MAN for teaching me the tricks. Yes that is the goat in the background
Three striper and a volunteer channel cat out of Nutbush this morning. Hit a school early and got the three striper on white bucktails with white twister tails, the cat hit a crankbait. Striper were 21", 18", and 18". Could not get the final striper to make my limit, once the boats started zipping around the bite shut off.
Julia Gurnea w/17 inch White Bass caught on a minnow 7-22-09 at the bridges.
The Gurneau family, Vince Julia and Tylia with a 6lb. Channel Cat caught on shrimp 7-22-09 at Goat Island.
Michael Ayscue 10.5 Pounds 43.5 inches long citation Gar Caught July 3 in Bluestone Creek on cut Bream.
Darrell Buchanan of Chatham caught 29 lb. 36 inch blue cat and released back into lake on 7-11-09 at Buggs Island.
Heres peanut with a citation gar caught while noodling at ivy hill. Thats big dog in the background.
My guest David, First time catching stripers on Kerr Lake, July 1st, between #6 & #7, Captain 8Pt.
Two nice cats caught by dave and debra aboard the ROCKCRUSHER.
Scott caught this 3 pounder with a black trick worm on a shakyhead near grassy creek.
My son Ean Karpinski caught a 46 inch Gar off out dock on Sunday 6/28/2009
Caught by Chyanne on 6-22-09 at Nutbush on a worm.
Jimmy Z. with a stringer of fish off a log in Kerr. 7-4-09
Jimmy Z. with a channel cat for dinner 7-4-09
Dave and friend Trevor with 4 of 9 fish cought on june 18 while trolling on the ROCKCRUSHER.
Dave and neice Raeann with 4 rockfish cought 6-16 aboard the ROCKCRUSHER.
Dave and daughter Makayla with her first rockfish caught on the ROCKCRUSHER.
White bass, LMB, Crappie, White Perch and a Channel cat caught 6-28-09 in Buffalo using minnows by Kay O'Ferral.
Figured i post something different on the catch of the day...Hillbilly
27.12lb Flat Head 06/20/2009
30lb flathead caught in the dan, by SEA-PRO.
Dave and the kids sat june 13 aboard the ROCKCRUSHER.
Dave's wife debra jane with a couple hogs caught june 20th aboard the rockcrusher.
Dave's dad and son jeffrey fighting his first striper on the rockcrusher june 18th.
These 3 fish came from grassy this past weekend biggest at 16 in & 1.80 lbs the other 2 14.5 & 1.25 lbs caught back to back to back to nothing. Guess right place right time.
Jeff with a 2.81lb crappie caught on june 6 while camping at longwood park
14 lb. Bluecat caught by Amy Farmer using shrimp at the bridges. 6-13-09
This 3.5 lb. largemouth was caught on a shallow diving crankbait around Satterwaite Point on 6/11.
20lb blue cat caught out of Butchers Creek at 17ft depth by Father and Son team June 15th using BIG live bait. They keep getting bigger every time we come back!
This blue catfish was caught in Rudds Creek, weight was 8lbs, length was 28in. My biggest cat on Kerr to date.
Aaron got this nice striper near nut bush on Kerr lake (think I need bigger bate)
Rich (caption crunch) got this nice 14.5" crappie 4-23-09 Eastland creek on Kerr lake.
Dave Bromberg 6-6-09 2lb. 7oz. LMB caught on plastic worm main lake.
Jeff with a 2 lb crappie caught while fishing grassy creek with minnows.
Here is The Teacher with a fat Kerr lake striper that bit live shad on 5-29-09
I caught it near Satterwhite Point Marina. I am not a professional fisherman but, I do fish allot on Kerr Lake. This is one of my best. It is 17 1/2” and almost 2lb.
Here is The Plumber with a nice Kerr lake striper, caught while fishing with the teacher and Adam, hit live shad near ivy hill on 5-30-09
Kerr Lake sure does have some nice stripers this beautiful Morone Saxatillis made my day, he bite live shad near ivy hill, while fishing with the teacher.
This largemouth bass was caught in Rudds creek on May 30th. Weight was 3lbs, length was not measured.
MOE with a 33lb fathead
33lb blue caught by BAIT-A-HOLICS aboard the SEAARK
Team Mayflower caught plenty of fish on memorial weekend 2009. We kept 71, 6 channel catfish, 5 large mouth and the rest crappie.
My daughter caught this snapper while reeling in a cat fish . It had bit the catfishes tail and would not let go. We released the turtle and cat fish unharmed .
Here is Adam with a nice kerr lake striper, caught at 6:15 am on 5-29-09, near ivy hill and caught on live bait, while fishing with The Teacher.
Teacher is the teacher of stripers, but Deadeye is the professor of bluecat. Class has began. My buddy Ten point and I put this 62 lbs blue in the boat in 40 mins. This should be catch of the month!
Harmless with a 55 lb flathead caught May 22, 2009 in the Dan.
Snapper with a nice 1 caught with gator.
Philip and Phaith Royster caught this 2 lb. bass on a brush hog at Ivy Hill 5/25/09. Their the children of Hess & Phylis Royster.
60lb club Jr. Oh YEAH!!!!!
My precious wife the bass slayer strikes again! Wow! She is so impressive to me. She teaches college finance by day and then jumps into a phone booth and comes out “Super Woman”
Caught by PapaJoe on Sat. 4-25-09 28" near buoy #6 on live shad.
Tabbycat with a 51lb flathead out of Difficult creek. Caught at 3pm on BIG bait.
Steven Matthews from Bullock caught these 2 nice crappie at the back of Beaver Creek on 05/15/09. Biggest one was 17 inches long and caught on red/white jig. Steven thinks the big one was close to 3 Lbs.
New PB 50.4lb flathead, difficult creek around 4pm, pic taken by a bass fisherman with a badge, busted my scale and had to find 1 that wouldn't, found 2.
Tim Faucette caught this largemouth in Grassy Creek on 05/04/2009 on a white spinnerbait. Tim said he hasn't seen many this dark colored.
Tiffany S. Arrington caught this 30 lb. blue catfish near Bluestone Creek using shad as bait. 5/7/09.
Oh Yeah!! 60lb Club Jr. puttin a new PB of 46 lbs in the boat.
Adam Morris with 2nd place fish in KLCA Open tourny May 2nd.
60lb club and 60lb Club Jr. with a 22 lb blue and 35 lb flathead. 1st Showdown
Steven Boaze (aka: ShadHawg) caught a nice 26lb blue cat saturday night. live bluegill suspended!
LMB 2.1lb. 14-1/2 inch caught by Lila Farmer in Bluestone 5-1-09
Dwayne Brown with a 1lb. 7oz. crappie caught in Bluestone 5-2-09
48 inch Blue cat 50lbs caught by Lukus Watkins "REELWILD 1 " Lake Gaston 5-3 -2009..
51 lb 48inch blue caught by John Hughes aboard "REEL WILD 1 " 4-30 -2009 , released.
44.3lb flathead out of the staunton, 4/30, 5pm
Frank Farmer 24 lb. 38 inch Flathead catfish. Grn Pumpkin tube. Clarksville Marina 4-21-09
Paul Farmer LMB 2lb. 7oz. Culprit worm. Buffalo Creek 4-20-09
Paul Farmer 1lb. 12 oz. Crappie. Spinnerbait. Buffalo Creek 4-20-09
Paul Farmer Striper 6.5lb. 24 inch. Shadrap. Upper main lake. 4-21-09. Fish was CPR'd.
Here is a fish caught by my precious wife this past weekend in the cove across from Summerset Plantation. She is a college Business & Accounting instructor during the week and bass slayer on the weekend.
Difficult creek 44lb flathead, 4/24, keepitsimple
Caught this nice white bass in Bluestone Creek this past weekend on a topwater plug. She was 16 inches long and weighed close to 3 lbs. Buggs Island is awesome and this website is a great inspiration to get out there and enjoy it.
2lbs .76oz, 17in long crappie caught on 4-23-09
Tabbycat with a 34lb blue, 4/28, Difficult Creek
Derick Phillips caught this 22" and weighed 7.08lbs. His fatherinlaw Tony Skeen just casted in this spot getting hung up, but Derick as you can see didn't.
Tony Skeen showing of his largemouth bass, we had the best trip ever on buggs and we have been comming for 15 plus years, catching approx 85 largemouth, 6 crappie and 1 striper.
This is me Randy Rose showing off one of my many i caught 13 to 17 inches. No big fish for me this year, but I caught so many fish in our 3 day trip that my ribbs are sore from jerking my fishing rod.
Tony Skeen showing of another bass
Randy, showing off one of my 5 crappie.
Tim Faucette pulled this crappie from Grassy Creek. Fish measured 15 inches.
Ricky Fain from Spencer,VA. caught this nice 5lb.5oz. Largemouth Bass on Kerr Lake in the Grassy Creek area.Fish was caught on Spinnerbait. Caught many Bass, well worth the two hour ride to Kerr!
Randy Rose, Tony Skeen, and Derick Phillips fishing buggs had 29 lbs of large mouths on Sunday caught over 50 fish
Mark Bloomfield caught this 1 pound 13 ounce crappie near Occenonccee State Park on 4/19.
Tim Faucette from Bullock pulled another 15 inch slab from Grassy right after a thunderstorm Monday Evening.
Another citation crappie caught by Marshall Hancock on April 13, 2009 It was a good day of fishing at Buggs Island/Kerr Lake. This nice crappie was weighed in at Buggs Island Bait & Tackle and weighed 2.20 pounds, measured 15 1/2 inches in length. The fish was released to hopefully be caught another day!
48lb flathead caught 4/15 at 1:30 in the afternoon.
Jim with two nice crappie caught in Bluestone on 4/10/09. First trip to Kerr and not the last.
Eddie with a nice Bluestone crappie.
Caught this 73lb blue at Kerr Lake 4/15/09.
Tim Caught this nice White Bass while crappie fishing near Grassy using live minnows.
Amy Brown LMB 4-12-09 Bluestone
Amy Brown w/ 6 lb. 22 inch Striper. Bluestone.
Frank Farmer 4-12-09 29 lb. 42 inch citation Flathead catfish. Bluestone on shadrap.
38,39,&40 caught by snapper during the KLCA tournament
25 lb. Flathead caught in Bluestone by Frank Farmer on Shadrap using 8 lb. test line light rod. CPR
These nice bass, 3 and 3 and 1/2 lbs. were caught by Greg Hardy in the Kimball Point area on Sunday afternoon 4/5/09.
Tim from Bullock caught this slab near Longwood on 3rd cast . Looks like another year for nice size crappie.
60lb club w/ a 48lber caught 4/9/09 at the mouth of Difficult creek.
James Henderson caught this freshwater white drum near Grassy Creek. It was his 1st drum catch.
41lb flathead caught by Josh Powell of RiverBottomOutdoors.com on a 14’ Wally Marshall signature series crappie rod on 4lb test line in Buffalo on 3/19
40 lb blue caught 3-18-2009
Here's Adam again with 2 more stripers, even bigger than the ones he caught on 3/18. These were caught on 3/21/09 near the powerline at Ivy Hill.The Bite is on!! They were caught on live shad while fishing w/ The Teacher..
Heres the teacher with a 28 inch striper. Caught on 3/28/09 using live shad in the Ivy Hill area.
George Hudson caught this 40lb Flathead on 3-31-09 while fishing in the South Boston towm limits.
Here is the teacher with an early morning striper caught near ivy hill on 3-10-09, caught with live shad.
Michael Ayscue, 33 pound blue, cauught on live shad, 3/10/09
Heres Adam Beaty with a couple of nice stripers caught on 3/18/09 while fishing with the teacher. We used live shad for bait.
Tiffany S. Arrington with a 31 pound blue catfish that was caught near Bluestone Landing. Used live chad for bait.
Tori Reavis caught her first bass. Can you tell she’s proud? She was fishing with her Pappaw Benji White.
Crappie 1.5 lb. Upperlake, on minnow caught by Lila Farmer 3-8-09
LMB caught by Lila Farmer on minnow. Main lake pocket. 3-9-09
This 3lb 12oz was caught @ Buggs Island Saturday March 7 during Bobcat's Crappie Tournament. It was caught by Shon Roberts of Danville.This fish won big fish in the tournament It was caught trolling in 5 feet of water fishing 3 feet deep on the upper end of the lake.
Caught by Joe Lombardino w / trievertrainer. 1.7 lb. minnow, upper lake.
Caught by Frank Farmer in Buffalo on minnows. 3-12-09. Biggest fish 1lb. 14 oz. 14 1/4 inch.
1st Place in KLCA Tournament .... 59.1 lbs
2nd Place in the KLCA Tournament, Jeffrey Melton .... 29.8 lbs
3rd Place in KLCA Tournament, Doug Bailey ... 26.4 lbs
4th Place in KLCA Tournament with the big flathead of the day, Larry Royster ,,,, 25.1 lbs
Cullen Dougherty (10) caught this 26 1/2 inch striper Saturday evening with his dad. They were trolling at the mouth of Butchers Creek and caught it on a Red Fin. First striper of 2009!!!!!
A couple more nice ones caught fishing with the doc in the snow 2-16-09
Brooke Ayers caught one of her first blue cats weighing up to 22lbs and released on 2/22/09. Nine, total for the day in the brutal wind. She was fishing with Travis, CatsNstripers
Just wanted to post the first flathead of the year.36 lber caught by circlehook.
Mr. Whiskers with a 38 lb blue.
Fishing has been a little slow!
Caught my biggest Bluecat the other day. 5O pounds.
Caught my biggest Bluecat the other day. 5O pounds.
Caught this immpresive 63 pounder put up a great fight ready to go fishing.
52 pounds caught by burton, main lake outside of nutbush 1-23-09
Fishdoc with a nice one out of grassy 2-16-09, ya got to love catchin fish in the snow!
Tadpole with a 44 lber caught in Grassy Creek on Shad
40 lber caught in Grassy Creek on Shad
Cobysdad w/ 2 nice slabs caught from Difficult creek 1/6/09. Finshed w/ 25 fat keepers.
Here is Adam Beaty with an "Above Average" Kerr Lake Striper, it was one of many caught on 1/13/09 using Live Bait, While fishing with the Teacher.
Snapper with a 51lber caught in the 2009 ice bowl.