West Virginia Fishing News

The following waters were stocked the week of March 8, 2010.

Anthony Creek
Back Fork of Elk River
Beech Fork Tailwaters
Big Clear Creek
Big Sandy Creek
Blaney Hollow and Morgan Run

SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. – West Virginia Division of Natural Resources Wildlife Resources Section (DNR) will hold its next Archery in the Schools (AIS) Program instructor training April 20-21 at the Gander Mountain Store in South Charleston, according to Jerry Westfall, DNR’s AIS Program Coordinator.

SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources reminds sportsmen and sportswomen that the 2009 – 2010 trapping season for raccoon, fox, bobcat, mink and muskrat ends on February 28, 2010.

The following waters were stocked the week of February 1, 2010.

Anthony Creek
Bear Rocks Lake
Brandywine Lake
Brushy Fork Lake
Bullskin Run
Cacapon Park Lake
Cherry River
Deer Creek (Nicholas)

Wildlife biologists counted 2,868 ducks and 7,789 Canada geese during the annual mid-winter waterfowl survey in early January, according to Steve Wilson, Waterfowl Biologist for the Wildlife Resources Section of the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources.

The following waters were stocked the week of January 25, 2010.

Blackwater River
East Fork Greenbrier River
Glady Fork
Hurricane Reservoir
Little River East Fork Greenbrier River

Preliminary figures for the 2009 fall turkey hunting season show a harvest of 1,244 turkeys. This is slightly higher than the 1,206 turkeys checked in during the 2008 fall season. The eastern Mountain Region of the state reported a fall turkey harvest increase, with District 3 mountain counties up 16 percent and District 4 mountain counties up 20 percent. The fall turkey harvest declined 10 percent in the northern counties of District 1 and declined 15 percent in the eastern panhandle counties of District 2. The top five counties for fall turkey harvests were Monroe (116), Nicholas (114), Greenbrier (99), Preston (82) and Mason (81).

West Virginia hunters harvested 1,828 black bears during the combined 2009 archery and firearms seasons, according to Chris Ryan, Supervisor of Game Management Services for the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources. The preliminary harvest data for the combined seasons in 2009 is the second highest harvest on record behind only 2008.

The following waters were stocked the week of January 4, 2010.

Chief Cornstalk Lake
Curtisville Lake
Lost River
Mountwood Park Lake
North Fork of South Branch
Pennsboro Lake
Rollins Lake

The West Virginia Division of Natural Resource’s Wildlife Resources Section (DNR) will host an Archery in the Schools (AIS) Program training Jan 19-20, 2010, at the Gander Mountain Store in South Charleston, according to Jerry Westfall, DNR’s AIS Program Coordinator.