I have been looking at Virginia tech as a college and was wondering if there are any good fishing spots close by or within a half an hour drive????

PM me your address and I can send you a copy of the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries 2009 Freshwater Fishing booklet which lists places to fish all over the state.

Getting into VATech is difficult at best. The receive over 20,000 applications for 5,000 freshmen slots.

So be sure your SAT/ACT score is high and you have over a 3.0 in your Core Subjects and then go to church every Sunday from now until April.

Unless, of course, you can throw a football 70 yards or can run the 40 in under 6 seconds!!!! Or have a mean three-point shot. Or you are a left handed pitcher with a 90 MPH fastball.

Good luck and I sincerely hope you can get into VATech.  

http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/fishing/

The new river is supposed to hold a decent amount of quality fish.  Its only thirty minutes away or so and you can catch everything from little red-eye to citation smallmouths

The new river also holds quite a few state records.

The new river is great for wading or floating for small mouth and smith mountain lake isn't too far away at all. Virginia Tech has a bass club that won a national title one year so you may contact them or join them too.

No one has mentioned Claytor Lake which is on the New River and just a few miles from Blacksburg. It has a good population of largemouth, smallmouth and spotted bass.

No one has mentioned Claytor Lake which is on the New River and just a few miles from Blacksburg. It has a good population of largemouth, smallmouth and spotted bass.

Great point, Wayne...I had noticed the same thing!  A "bonus" for Claytor is that it holds great populations of stripers and hybrids.  Also, walleye and catfish, if you're so inclined.

Some of my fondest memories of my years at Tech were wading on the New after classes one summer during summer school...a buddy and I would go down to Pembroke nearly every afternoon and wade the ripples and pools there for smallmouth mainly.  He and I are still good friends, and we both live in the area now, so we still get to fish together quite a bit.

The New down at McCoy Falls is also a very popular spot (and certainly not because of all the Radford girls out in bathing suits on the rocks!)...down in this area (i.e. Whitethorne, Parrot) there are some MONSTER-muskies.

Even the little duck-pond on campus holds some decent carp, plus it is within walking distance regardless of where you live on-campus.

Best of luck to you, and GO HOKIES !!!