Project Choose Your Own Adventure

[ScottyB]

Looks like a good time! How far are you from far southwest virginia? Best trout streams in the state around the Grayson highlands, plenty of campgrounds. Might be worth a drive if you can do it in half a day or so?

far, like an easy 5-6 hours from here in Augusta to the VA line.  my folks live in Roanoke though, so i've done that drive 100 times.  if i went up there it'd need to be a long weekend at the least.

my top 2 streams (in terms of scenery, fish, access, and stream quality) i hit in VA are the Cascades just west of VT and Mossy Creek just south of JMU near where Rex lives.  went to Whitetop Laurel once down there near Grayson yeaarrrss ago and it was gorgeous but i found it really hard to fish, thick mt. laurels and the fish spooked super easy.  that was pretty early in the hobby for me though so i definitely wanna go back.  Big Horse Creek just over the border near Airy is apparently a super productive watershed with big fish...i need to get there soon as well.  

would love to properly see the Grayson highlands though, and i've already passed the idea by Jen for camping at Hurricane Campground outside of Troutdale/Grayson to make our stay there a long one.  we'll see when that happens though since its hard to be near home and not get roped into just staying at the houses with the family.