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The Douthat Fee Water — Wilson Creek Bath, Virginia
Also called Douthat State Park Fee Fishing Area.
42 NHD reaches, 15.2 miles of drawn channel — side channels and braids included, so more than the distance downriver. Nearest reporting gauge 8.9 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
Four miles of Wilson Creek through Douthat State Park, above the lake to the park boundary and below it to the lower Forest Service line, fished on a daily permit in two seasons a 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.
Daily fee-fishing permit required April 15 to June 15 and September 15 to October 31.
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 fee-fishing permit required April 15 to June 15 and September 15 to October 31.
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 both permit seasons; between them it fishes as ordinary park water.
Live water temperature
| Gauge | Distance | Now |
|---|---|---|
| Jackson River Bl Gathright Dam Nr Hot Spgs, Va | 8.9 mi | 59.4 °F |
| Jackson Riv At Filtration Plant At Covington, Va | 12.0 mi | 60.4 °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 Outfitters — 20.9 mi
- Casta Line Trout Farms — 24.7 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.