Matt Miles Fly Fishing

The James begins at the town of Iron Gate, Virginia, where the Jackson and the Cowpasture meet, and this guide service works the smallmouth water running from that confluence downstream toward Richmond. The company’s own river notes call the James the best place to fish for smallmouth bass in Virginia and point to the numbers of citation fish it produces. Days are guided on both half-day and full-day schedules. Smallmouth are the target through the warm months, with musky the cold-weather quarry on the same stretch of water.