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Stewarts Creek Catch-and-Release — Stewarts Creek, Virginia
Also called Stewart's Creek, the WMA water.
39 NHD reaches, 12.7 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
Four and a half miles of Stewarts Creek and its North and South forks inside the Stewarts Creek WMA, southeast of Galax on the east side of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Wild brook trout, managed as catch and release.
Catch and release only, throughout the WMA portion of Stewarts Creek and both major forks.
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 only, throughout the WMA portion of Stewarts Creek and both major forks.
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-stream brook trout fishing; April through June and again in 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.
- dnr Virginia DWR
- dnr blog Virginia DWR Special Regulation Trout blog