howsthebite · Virginia
How's the bite in Virginia today?
- Lockjaw
- Picky
- Biting
- On fire
2 tracked waters in VA. Faded dots are the rest of the country. 1 outside the map area.
| Index | Water | Temp | Level | Best window |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 On fire | Kerr Lake | 70.3°F | 289.26 ft | 6:34 AM–8:34 AM |
| 3 Lockjaw | Virginia Beach | 80.1°F | 1.575 ft | 6:26 AM–8:26 AM |
Rebuilt 8:12 AM · every reading carries its station on the water's own page.
Before you go
A Virginia fishing licence runs $23 a year for residents. DWR sets the rules and is the one that counts.
What a Virginia fishing licence costs, and who is exempt → The days you can fish Virginia without a licence →What you may keep
VMRC sets a size or bag limit for 26 species here — 23 with at least one area open today. Where a species is open in one water and closed in another, its own page says which. Each page carries the agency's own figures, the date they were read, and what is still unsettled.
- American eel
- American shad closed today
- Atlantic spadefish
- Black drum
- Black sea bass
- Bluefish
- Blueline tilefish
- Cobia
- Croaker
- Golden tilefish
- Greater amberjack
- Grey trout (weakfish)
- Grouper (all species, combined)
- King mackerel
- Red drum (channel bass, redfish)
- River herring (alewife and blueback herring) closed today
- Scup (porgy)
- Sharks (most species — see notes for exceptions)
- Sheepshead
- Spanish mackerel
- Speckled trout (spotted seatrout)
- Spot
- Striped bass (rockfish)
- Sturgeon closed today
- Summer flounder
- Tautog (blackfish)
Trout stocking
DWR posts specific stocking dates for some waters the week before stocking, and runs a stocking archive searchable by date.
Season, program figures, and where to check what's stocked today →Trout stocking
No stocking right now — the last run was 112 days ago. These agencies stock in spring and again in autumn.
All 216 stocked waters, newest first →