On January 12 and 13, 2019, the Virginia Fly Fishing and Wine Festival will return to the Meadow Event Park in Doswell, Virginia, luring over 2,000 attendants from throughout the East Coast to what promises to be the most successful iteration of this one-of-a-kind event yet. Doors are open from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, both days. Tickets are $20, and kids and Boy Scouts in uniform are admitted free of charge. The first event of its kind to combine wine tasting and fly fishing, the

In just one short week, it'll once again be winter by the calendar, but by the weather report, winter is already upon us. Southwest Virginia got over a foot of snow last weekend--up to 18" in some areas--keeping us off the water for just a few days. However, musky and wild trout fishing has been consistently good, and the river flows seem to have settled into a stable winter level, making life easy for both the fish and the angler. I've been running a lot of musky trips on th