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Passage Creek Delayed Harvest — Passage Creek, Virginia
160 NHD reaches, 38.9 miles of drawn channel — side channels and braids included, so more than the distance downriver. Nearest reporting gauge 11.9 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
About a mile of Passage Creek through the Front Royal hatchery in Fort Valley, run as delayed harvest — stocked well and fished as a no-kill stream for eight months of the year. 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.
October 1 through May 31: artificial lures only, no trout may be possessed. June 1 through September 30 it fishes as ordinary stocked trout water.
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
October 1 through May 31: artificial lures only, no trout may be possessed. June 1 through September 30 it fishes as ordinary stocked trout water.
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
The no-kill months are the ones to fish. Murray's, which is up the road, works it hardest from October into spring.
Live water temperature
| Gauge | Distance | Now |
|---|---|---|
| N F Shenandoah River Near Strasburg, Va | 11.9 mi | 63.0 °F |
| N F Shenandoah River At Mount Jackson, Va | 12.3 mi | 62.2 °F |
| Smith Creek Near New Market, Va | 14.4 mi | 61.0 °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
- Murray's Fly Shop — 7.2 mi
- Gregory's Lakeside Bait & Tackle — 21.2 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.
- agency Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources
- flyshop Murray's Fly Shop