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The Waynesboro Catch-and-Release — South River, Virginia
Also called South River C&R, the downtown water.
123 NHD reaches, 55.2 miles of drawn channel — side channels and braids included, so more than the distance downriver.
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The 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.
The mapped extent is the whole named South River. The catch-and-release water is the two miles between Second Street and Wayne Avenue in Waynesboro.
What it is
Two miles of South River through downtown Waynesboro, from Wayne Avenue through Constitution Park to Second Street — an urban trout fishery SVTU stocks and maintains as its home water.
Catch and release, year-round, on the two-mile reach from the Second Street bridge upstream to the Wayne Avenue bridge in the City of Waynesboro.
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
Catch and release, year-round, on the two-mile reach from the Second Street bridge upstream to the Wayne Avenue bridge in the City of Waynesboro.
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
Year-round; the chapter's stockings of rainbows and browns keep it fishing through the winter.
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.
Fly shops nearby
- South River Fly Shop — 7.7 mi
- Casta Line Trout Farms — 21.2 mi
- Mossy Creek Fly Fishing — 22.8 mi
- Walkabout Outfitters — 23.4 mi
- Albemarle Angler — 28.0 mi
- Appalachian Trail Outfitters — 28.3 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.
- dnr Virginia DWR
- tu chapter Shenandoah Valley Trout Unlimited