Lake Redwing Fishing Guide, City of Virginia Beach, Virginia

• Overview

  Lake Redwing lies in City of Virginia Beach, in Virginia. The water sits 3 feet up. With some 99 acres of water, there is room for a boat but no need of one. Around 1.4 miles of margin, front to back. Ground here is low by Virginia standards. Head to Virginia Beach, 4.2 miles away, for anything you forgot. The nearest city of size is Virginia Beach, 4.3 miles away. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.

• Where to Fish on Lake Redwing

  No chart reached our records; the first cast is your sounding. The tide is the timetable on this water; two hours either side of the change usually fish hardest. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Reported across City of Virginia Beach: silver mullet, bluegill, common carp, pumpkinseed and striped bass. These are county-wide records, so not all of them will be in this water. Anyone new to Lake Redwing should walk it once before setting up.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Temperature averages peak at 79°F in July and bottom out at 41°F in January. It fishes twelve months of the year. Heat pushes fish deep from June onwards, so start early. Late winter often fishes better here than midsummer does. Plan around that when you fish Lake Redwing. Rain lifts the level and moves fish about.

• Tackle & Baits

  The access position is unclear from public sources. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. There is recorded parking some half a mile off. There is a mapped landing stage half a mile away. Where access is informal, keep it that way by behaving. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. Lake Christine at 1.8 miles is the sensible second choice. Nothing here settles the position at Lake Redwing for certain.