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The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources operates nine fish cultural stations around the state. These are categorized as either “rearing stations,” or “hatcheries.”. There are four warm water facilities, that hatch and rear warm water species, like muskellunge, northern pike, striped bass, walleyes, catfish, largemouth bass ...
- Wytheville Fish Hatchery
The Wytheville State Fish Hatchery is located at 1260 Red...
- Vic Thomas Fish Hatchery
The Hatchery maintains a total of 19.66 acres of earthen...
- Marion Trout Hatchery
The Marion Fish Hatchery was built in the 1930s. The...
- King & Queen Fish Hatchery
For the last dozen years or so, the types of fish most often...
- Wytheville Fish Hatchery
Harrison Lake National Fish Hatchery. Harrison Lake National Fish Hatchery is a 444-acre facility of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service located in the quiet rural setting of Virginia's historic tidewater plantation country.
You’ve got to hatch ‘em to catch ‘em! The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) maintains a robust network of fish hatcheries to keep Virginia’s waters teeming with rainbow, brook, and brown trout in addition to bluegill, redear sunfish, walleye, musky, crappie, saugeye, and striped bass.
Virginia offers excellent, extremely diverse freshwater angling opportunities. Over 176,000 acres of public lakes and 27,300 miles of fishable streams provide every freshwater angler something. Tidal rivers for largemouth bass, striped bass, blue catfish and shad. Unsurpassed float fishing smallmouth bass rivers spread across the state.
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Look for blue dasher, eastern pondhawk, black saddlebags, calico pennant, and common green darner. DWR completed a stream restoration project on Spring Run, 2011. The stream now compliments the hatchery with a no harvest, single hook artificial hook only trophy trout stream.
Coursey Springs is one of nine fish hatcheries operated by the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Originally constructed in the 1960's this new state of the art facility draws water from the 3rd largest spring in the State of Virginia and produces about 500,000 catchable size trout (or 350,000 pounds).