Virginia Fly Fishing Reports and Conditions

Our first smallmouth bass of 2012! Pretty fish and a bonus while fishing for musky. Great job Charlie!

James and Shenandoah River

We will continue our musky fishing through February and March as the weather allows. Our guided trips are continuing through this warm spell and we only have a few days that aren't currently booked for the next 2 weeks. You won't believe the 2 fish our buddy Blaine landed this week. 2 musky over 50" on the fly....We will post the pics and the video soon. You will all love it. We will be doing our best to put a few in the boat this week as well! See you on the water.

Mountain Brook Trout Streams

We will be tying up some early season brook trout flies this weekend. It will be too cold and nasty to head up into the SN Park or GW Forest. We recommend waiting until next week when temps will be back in the 50's during the day.

Spring Creeks

The spring creeks were awesome this week. Our anglers from Baltimore came back for a second round and had just as good a day as before leaving with a 6lb grin on their faces. Black articulated Peanut Envy flies and Crystal Buggers were the flies of choice. We will be out every day this week enjoying the wonderful weather. See you out there!

Managed Trout Water

Golden Retrievers, Kreelex, CK Nymphs, Thin Mints, Psycho Prince, Kauffman's, and Crystal Buggers fished under a Float Master indicator are hard to beat right now. Yes, you may find a few rising fish that will take a small BWO dry, emerger, or wet, but we are doing much better with the flies listed above. Keep an eye out for stocking updates. Remember, VDGIF only posts the 1st stocking of any DH or Special Regulation streams.