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Summer trout stocking to begin Monday for Clinch Mountain, Crooked Creek

Crystal Graham
child fishing at lake
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The paid fishing areas at Clinch Mountain and Crooked Creek will begin summer trout stocking on Monday.

Stockings at both fee areas will take place four times per week with one stream section receiving fish at each stocking.

A detailed stocking schedule will be posted at each location.

This schedule will remain in place through the end of the fee fishing season on Sept. 30.

A daily permit is required to fish the fee areas for any person over 12 years of age. The permits are $8 each. You mush also have a valid freshwater fishing license (children under 16 are exempt).

Daily permits are available at authorized license agents or online at Go Outdoors Virginia.

For more information, visit dwr.virginia.gov/fishing/trout/fee-fishing-areas/.

Crystal Graham

Crystal Graham

Crystal Abbe Graham is the regional editor of Augusta Free Press. A 1999 graduate of Virginia Tech, she has worked for 25 years as a reporter and editor for several Virginia publications, written a book, and garnered more than a dozen Virginia Press Association awards for writing and graphic design. She was the co-host of "Viewpoints," a weekly TV news show, and co-host of Virginia Tonight, a nightly TV news show on PBS. Her work on "Virginia Tonight" earned her a national Telly award for excellence in television.