BirdTrout
Summersville Lake Wildlife Management Area, West Virginia
6,157 acres of public ground, managed by WV Division of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Section. 9 named streams run through it, of which 4 are designated trout water — 44.9 miles of it. It is in the state's huntable-land layer.
Open in BirdTrout50°F and colder is cold, through cold-transitional and cool, to warm above 70°F — the same four bands the app paints. The colour is nothing at all: WV DEP publishes no thermal classification, so every stream on this map draws grey. The gauge dots are the one exception and they read live. Grey is every stream here, for the reason above.
The unit in numbers
Assembled from the state huntable public-land layer and PAD-US ownership records, dissolved into one block: the section lines a state forest is surveyed in are not a fact about access, so they are not drawn and not counted twice.
Getting on it
PAD-US carries no access class for this unit. It is in the state's huntable layer, which is why it is here; what else you may do on it is the managing agency's to say.
Trout streams on this ground
Every named stream whose reaches touch this unit, longest first. 2 of them have a page of their own and are linked; the rest are in the app. The class column is WV DEP's designation of that stream, over the reaches it has classified. "Now" is the live USGS reading where a gauge stands in that stream.
| Stream | Miles | Class | Now | Designation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gauley River | 90.8 | untyped | — | Trout tailwater, Trout waters — part of an assessment unit, Trout waters — whole assessment unit |
| Hominy Creek | 26.2 | untyped | — | Trout waters — whole assessment unit |
| Meadow Creek | 19.8 | untyped | — | Trout waters — whole assessment unit |
| Muddlety Creek | 12.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Persinger Creek | 5.0 | untyped | — | — |
| McKee Creek | 4.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Rader Run | 4.3 | untyped | — | Trout waters — whole assessment unit |
| Salmon Run | 2.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Stony Branch | 0.8 | untyped | — | — |
The miles are the whole stream's, not the miles inside this boundary: a river does not stop at a property line and neither does its page.
Hunting
This ground is in West Virginia's huntable public-land layer as state wildlife management area, managed by WV Division of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Section — 100% of the unit is covered by it. This app does not carry West Virginia's season dates yet, so there are none printed below — WVDNR publishes them, and that digest is what to check before you go. That the ground is huntable and that a season is open on it are two different facts, and only the first one is on this page.
Access sites and amenities
No public access site we have on record stands on this unit. We hold no trail or campground data at all, so what is here is what the state publishes as launches and walk-in access, and none of it falls on this ground.
When to come
The hatch calendar for the Virginia mountains, which is the region this unit's centre falls in — the same regions the app's hatch panel uses. It is a regional record, not a survey of this ground: nobody has counted insects unit by unit. Year-round records (midges, scuds, sculpins) are left out.
January
May
- Blue-Winged Olive
- Blackfly
- Blue Quill
- Cranefly
- +18 more
June
July
- Caterpillar
- Crayfish
- Green Sedge
- Light Cahill
- +18 more
August
September
October
November
December
Nothing seasonal on the water.
Regulations
Nothing on this page is a regulation. The fishing rules that apply to the water on this ground — the types, the seasons, the size limits and the gear restrictions — are on the West Virginia fishing regulations page, built from the agency's own columns.
Watersheds it lies in
The subbasins this ground drains into. Each one has the whole basin's water on it.
Public land nearby
The nearest other blocks of public ground, centre to centre. Public land does not tile a state the way watersheds do, so this is nearness rather than adjacency.