Fishing
Grab a Big Net and Keep Your Hands Wet: Catch and Release Best Practices
Following best practices will help to prevent unintended angler-induced mortality when practicing catch and release throughout the year. Read more…
Jigging for Summer Walleye & Yellow Perch at Virginia’s Little Creek Reservoir
In this report, Alex McCrickard highlights tactics and techniques for locating and jigging on deep water late summer fish at Little Creek Reservoir. Watch…
Blue Catfish Sampling on the Pamunkey, Mattaponi, and Rappahannock Rivers
Blue catfish sampling found good numbers of multiple sizes of fish on all three rivers. Read more…
Try Crooked Creek WMA’s Fee Fishing Area for Summer Trout
The fee fishing area at the Crooked Creek WMA provides not only good summer trout fishing, but also great wildlife watching opportunities. Read more…
July 2021 Fishing Report
In this month's fishing report we highlight techniques for targeting quality largemouth bass on tidal systems such as the Chickahominy River. Watch…
Northern Snakehead Expansion Continues into Pamunkey River
Virginia DWR staff have been monitoring the expansion of Northern snakehead from established areas and discovered one in the Pamunkey River during a sampling event. Read more…
Planer Board Trolling for Striped Bass on Lake Anna Can be Like Cardio
You don’t have to travel to the Chesapeake Bay or its tidal tributaries to find striped bass in Virginia. Large impoundments like Smith Lake Anna provide excellent land-locked striped bass opportunities that some anglers overlook. Read more…
What’s Going on in the James and New River Smallmouth Fisheries?
Nice size smallmouth on the James and New, like this one caught and released on the James, are not as numerous as they previously were. Read more…
June 2021 Fishing Report
If you live in an urban area you don't have to travel far to find good fishing opportunities in Virginia. Alex McCrickard, DWR Aquatic Education Coordinator, discusses the variety of angling opportunities that our FishLocalVA program offers. Watch…