The 2024 Wintergreen Trout Tournament on Trout Pond in Stoney Creek on Saturday, May 4, starts at 8:30 am and ends at 11:30 am; prizes will be awarded at noon. No pre-registration is needed. 

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Update for March 20, 2024–Trout Pond is now open for catch and keep two a day. Fishing on the pond is restricted to Wintergreen property owners and their guests; a WPOA fishing permit must be displayed.

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Wintergreen Sporting Club members will offer free classes again this fall. There will be classes on the water for beginners and non-beginners.

We are going forward with plans to stock the trout pond again this year if the fishing community again through as they have done in past years.

Saturday, April 30th. Registration at 2:30 PM, Fishing starts at 3 PM. Wintergreen Valley Trout Pond. Rain Date, Sunday, May 1st.. There are no restrictions on who can fish. Everyone invited.

Fishing on Trout Pond started up again on November 12th and the photos here show just a few of the happy anglers having a great time.

Wintergreen Sporting Club members will be offered one of four free classes this spring. There will be two classes for beginners on two different days, and one non-beginner class. These free classes are only for WSC members.

The day before that 2021 Wintergreen Bass Tournament (Friday, October 18) on The Ponds of Wintergreen, Tim Wampler hooked this LMB.

The threat of showers did very little to dampen the turnout at the 2021 Wintergreen Fall Bass Fishing Tournament with some 19 registered competitors showing up on October 16th to fish The Ponds of Wintergreen.

All Wintergreen Sporting Club members as well as all Wintergreen property owners, and their relatives and guests, are welcome to participate in this fun tournament.

The WSC monthly conclave in September held on the deck at Stoney Creek Bar & Grill drew a good crowd.

The setting for our August 5th Fishing Conclave was idyllic. Having it at Bob and Vicki Keenan's large stone patio overlooking Lake Monacan would have been fine enough alone. And the weather was perfect; very warm in the shade of the house with a steady breeze from the lake.

Tim Hess and his son-in-law, Jason Weaver from Hilton Head, SC. went fishing on the tailwaters of the Jackson River on July 6th. They report catching multiple wild rainbows. Jason cast this 19-incher on a hopper with a size 12 rubber legs dropper. Tommy Lawhorne of the South River Fly Shop in Waynesboro was their guide.

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My son Colter and I caught these massive redfish on Winyah Bay near Georgetown SC on May 31st. We were fishing 20-25 ft deep off the river channel using fresh blue crab. Colter and I, along with my friend and his son caught seven redfish this size.

To have better weather, the tournament coordinators–Ron Coté and Jerry Gress–moved their event from Saturday to Sunday, May 30th, starting at 2 pm at Trout Pond. And it worked. The sun showed up, the WSC volunteers showed up, the fishing men and women showed up, and even an audience of family, friends, and tourists showed up.

Several of Wintergreen's small ponds are home to good-sized bass. For an excellent introduction on how to fish for bass in our ponds, check out this new six-minute video.

Andy Burdetsky reports: Time to get out on the James River. Last weekend I caught this five-pound, 21-inch smallmouth bass. She hit a Crank bait near Glasgow area. It’s a great time to float now, low water and big fish.

This year’s Spring Bass Fishing Tournament is in the record books. It was a tremendous success with some 18 contestants and a few spectators. The perfect weather helped everyone have a great time. Our 2019 winner was John Ellwood who took home a $50 gift certificate to Field and Stream/Dick’s Sporting Goods.

Darryl Brewer says he was a bit worried about how the trout were holding up in Trout Pond. He’s not worried now. And he found a lot of bass in Smallie Pond

Jamie Kessel reports: My sons and I had a great time fishing in several of the ponds

Doug Wood, a skilled fisherman living in Stoney Creek, was on Trout Pond Wednesday, April 4, from 11 to noon.

“Last week we caught close to 25 rainbows, all which were returned unharmed. The big news is I finally caught a grass carp,” says Chris Corish.

The number of trout you can keep from the Trout Pond was is now the standard two per person per day. It was one per person per day early in the spring.  

Lenlee and Chris Corish are going to host the gathering at their house on the Trout Pond