Destination File

By C.C. McCotter Each year we like to highlight some dark horse waters. They don’t get the publicity and they don’t get the angling pressure as more well-known lakes that …

  Over two-and-a-half steamy days in August I did what I enjoy the most – explored new territory and looked around the next bend after intense trip preparation. This time …

  On a hot and humid July morning I found myself fishing with an old friend on the tidal Rappahannock. It had been a minute since I last fished the …

As many of us do in the off season, I was sitting in my garage one winter telling fishing stories. In the course of the conversation, my fishing buddy and …

  Smith Mountain Lake is a 20,600-acre highland impoundment located near Roanoke, Virginia. This reservoir is annually ranked by Woods & Waters as one of Virginia’s premier fisheries, offering a …

   When you think of the region’s top river fisheries the ones that come to mind are the Chickahominy River, the James River, the Potomac River, right? These are the …