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Crooked Creek Fee Fishing Area — Crooked Creek, Virginia
49 NHD reaches, 28.1 miles of drawn channel — side channels and braids included, so more than the distance downriver.
Open in BirdTroutThe line is the water this name refers to, drawn from the NHD reaches it resolves to; the dots are the nearest gauges reporting water temperature, coloured by what they read now.
What it is
Five stocked miles near Galax plus about two more managed as a wild fishery, fished on a daily permit rather than a licence alone. One of three fee areas Virginia runs, and the one people mean when they say they are going to Crooked Creek. The regulation covers part of the stream, not all of it — the extent above is the agency's wording. What is drawn here is the whole named stream, because there is no boundary anywhere we could check it against.
Daily permit required in addition to a licence, in season. Fee-fishing season runs from the opening in April through September 30.
Where it is
This name covers a stretch whose boundaries are posted on the ground rather than held in any file this site reads, so the map draws the named stream and the boundaries are described in words above rather than guessed at with a line.
No access site in this state's file falls within 3 miles of the mapped reach.
Regulations on this stretch
Daily permit required in addition to a licence, in season. Fee-fishing season runs from the opening in April through September 30.
Rules change every year and the posted signs are the authority, not this page. Check the current Virginia regulations before you fish. Where this stretch sits inside a larger river, that river's general regulations apply everywhere this stretch's do not.
Best times
Stocked through the fee season; the wild section above fishes best in spring and autumn.
Live water temperature
No USGS temperature gauge we read reports within 25 miles of this stretch, so this page has no live number for it. That is a gap in the gauge network, not a judgement about the water.
Sources for the name
BirdTrout did not name this water. 2 independent sources below use the name, and it ships only because more than one of them does.