Talk to Shenandoah Valley fishing expert Harry Murray, and it soon becomes very clear that fishing in the Shenandoah River watershed region is a year-round sport.
Right now it's the trout lurking in feeder streams in search of cress bugs and small, native shrimp, according to Murray, who provides monthly fishing tips in his newsletter. If you know where they are hiding and how to approach them, the trout are there in good numbers, now.
Murray's office sits on a cliff overlooking Stoney Creek, just above its confluence with the north branch of the Shenandoah, in the Valley Pike town of Edinburg, Va.