Smith Mountain Lake

Smith Mountain Lake is a beautiful lake that is surrounded by the Blue Ridge Mountains.  This is a very popular lake in Virginia for outdoor recreation such as fishing, boating, camping, swimming and more.  The lake covers more than 20,000 acres and it is a very good fishing lake.  There is a lot of fishing pressure on the lake, so it may not always be easy to catch lots of fish on artificial lures, but there are lots of quality fish in the lake.  This lake gets a lot of attention for its striped bass fishery.  There are good numbers of stripers and very big fish too.  Largemouth bass and smallmouth bass are popular throughout the lake and there are plenty of fishing tournaments held on the lake every year.  Crappie, catfish, white perch, bluegill and other sunfish round out the fishery here.