This man told me they were just hoping to catch some small fish in this pond but that out in the lake proper people catch things like bass. We did see a sign posted, however, that warned about PCBs, which can cause cancer, in the lake’s fish, and people are advised to eat no more than two meals per month of a group of fish including carp, largemouth bass, striped bass, white perch and white catfish.

Best to view in "Original" or “Auto” because other versions resized by Pbase are decidedly unsharp.

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On Sunday we drove down to Lake Anna, only 72 miles from Washington (although it took two-and-a-half hours to get there). It’s one of the largest freshwater inland reservoirs in the state of Virginia and is 17 miles long, with 200 miles of shoreline. We only visited the state park (which was packed with families who were swimming, picnicking, boating and fishing), but there are a lot of luxury homes built along the lake as well as a nuclear power plant.

Face-off, posted earlier: