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The Mill Creek Nine-Inch Water — Mill Creek Giles, Virginia
6 NHD reaches, 6.1 miles of drawn channel — side channels and braids included, so more than the distance downriver. Nearest reporting gauge 19.8 miles away.
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
Mill Creek above the Poplar Street bridge in the town of Narrows, managed to a nine-inch minimum as wild trout water rather than stocked. 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.
Nine-inch minimum size limit upstream of the Poplar Street Bridge in the Town of Narrows.
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.
| Access | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Narrows | access | 2.4 mi |
Distance from the centre of the mapped reach, not along the road.
Regulations on this stretch
Nine-inch minimum size limit upstream of the Poplar Street Bridge in the Town of Narrows.
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
Small wild water — best in the cool months at either end of the year.
Live water temperature
| Gauge | Distance | Now |
|---|---|---|
| Bluestone River Near Pipestem, Wv | 19.8 mi | 64.8 °F |
Live from USGS — the number above is current rather than whenever the page was written. A gauge miles away is a gauge miles away: the distance column is there so you can discount it.
Fly shops nearby
- Walkabout Outfitter — 23.6 mi
- PC Bait & Tackle — 24.3 mi
Straight-line distance from the centre of the mapped reach.
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.