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Outdoors and Sports Briery Creek Lake

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    609 Briery Lake Road
    Farmville, VA 23901
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    804-367-1000 (DGIF)
  • City
    Farmville
    Locality
    Prince Edward
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Briery Creek Lake is an 845-acre lake that is owned by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries and is within the Briery Creek Wildlife Management Area in Prince Edward County. The dam was completed in 1986 and the lake was open to fishing in 1989. In 1986 and 1987 the lake was stocked with Florida strain largemouth bass, northern strain largemouth bass, bluegill, redear sunfish (also known as shellcrackers), channel catfish, and crappie. Briery Creek Lake quickly began producing trophy largemouth bass and recognized as one of the state's premier bass fisheries. To help protect this fishery, the regulation slot limit is a 16-24 protected slot limit.. The daily bag limit is still five bass per day, but only one may be longer than 24 inches.

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  • Fishing

Region

Central Virginia

Last Updated: 04/24/2018

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    Farmville, VA 23901
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