Mossy Creek

Mossy Creek is the South’s most legendary spring creek — a tiny, cold limestone stream in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley that produces brown trout up to 10 pounds in fewer than 10 miles of fishable water. Flowing entirely across private land but opened to public catch-and-release fishing through a unique landowner agreement, Mossy Creek is fly-fishing only with single barbless hooks. The cress and watercress beds, undercut banks, and 50°F year-round spring flows produce some of the most consistent dry-fly fishing for trophy browns in the eastern United States.