This month’s Destination File focuses on the other part of Lake County – Lake Gaston. This 20,000-acre lake located on the border of Virginia and North Carolina boasts 350 miles …

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

John H. Kerr Reservoir was once revered as one of bass fishing’s jewels of the east. National bass fishing organizations made Clarksville and South Hill into “Tournament Towns” on the …

When I first fished Back Bay in 2009 I was intrigued by what I experienced – a vast shallow water fishery behind Sandbridge featuring thousands of acres of weedy bays, islands, creeks …

It had been over 20 years since I last visited Lake Moomaw and the hollows of the Gathright Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Bath County, Virginia. My wife and I …

Now, that’s one big fish,” I said, lifting my first lake trout—a 30-inch, 15-pound beast—out of the oversized net just raised from the powerful waters of the lower Niagara River …