Fly fishing in Virginia.

Live flows, rules, access maps and nearby guides.

  • 55waters
  • 16with a live gauge
  • 56designated
The Jackson River flowing clear over cobbles through the wooded Hidden Valley
Photo credit

The Jackson River in the Hidden Valley, Bath County, Virginia. Photo: Nyttend, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

55 fly-fishing waters in Virginia have a page here, 16 with a live USGS flow gauge and 55 with an official agency designation (such as Special-regulation trout water or Catch and release).

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8 fly-fishing guides and 11 fly shops in Virginia are listed, unclaimed unless marked.

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About the Virginia list

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55 Virginia rivers, creeks, lakes and flats with a page: each with its official agency designations and their source, live USGS flow where a gauge exists, the state’s regulations and access map, and the guides and shops nearby. Waters that cross into Virginia from a neighbouring state are included.

A Virginia water is here because the state agency lists it under an official designation, because guides and shops in our directories name it on their own websites, or because a live USGS gauge sits on a river a guide names. Species appear only where an agency page states them. “Most fished first” ranks by designations and by how many guide and shop websites name the water.

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