Lake Holiday VA Fishing


Fishing in Lake Holiday is one of the most popular benefits of living in the community. The 250-acre lake is home to an abundance of fish, including smallmouth and largemouth bass, bluegill, walleye, pickerel, black and white crappie, channel catfish, and grass carp.

You have options for where you can fish at Lake Holiday. If you’re a boat owner, you can fish anywhere on the lake. Fishing is also popular along the dam and the comfortable fishing pier behind the clubhouse. If you’re ready to have excellent fishing in your own backyard, call Lisa at 540.560.5711 or email lisa@lisacoxhomes.com to see available Lake Holiday homes for sale.

Lake Holiday does have rules regarding fishing in the lake. Because Lake Holiday is committed to providing excellent fishing for future generations, the following fishing regulations are enforced:

LAKE HOLIDAY FISHING REGULATIONS

1. Policy: LHCC desires to protect the health and future of the fish population in the lake.

2. Rules: To enforce this policy, the following rules have been established to manage the harvest and use of the fish in the lake.

a. The Commonwealth of Virginia’s regulations on fishing licenses apply to anyone fishing on Lake Holiday. Lake Holiday is considered an “inland water” under Virginia’s fishing license regulations. Please see www.dwr.virginia.gov/fishing/regulations/licenses/ for who is required to have a fishing license.

b. The following length and creel limits are to be observed when fishing at Lake Holiday:

c. To enforce established creel limits, Lake Patrol has the authority to inspect the contents in live wells on boats either on the lake or at the marina.

d. Stocking. No one may stock or release fish (unless complying with the creel limit) or bait species into the lake without the approval of the Lake Committee.

e. Fish Habitat. LHCC has approved installing specific fish habitat structures in the lake to provide habitat for small fish (fry) as they are spawned or introduced into the lake. The Lake Committee will install fish habitat structures in some regions of the lake and will provide additional habitat structures to homeowners who are willing to put them into the lake along their shorelines. Contact the Lake Committee to obtain fish habitat structures.

f. Fishing Tournaments. The following rules apply to all fishing tournaments held at Lake Holiday.

(1) It is against LHCC rules to hold fishing tournaments without prior written approval from the Lake Committee. The Lake Committee has the discretion to limit the number of tournaments per year, the hours of tournaments, and other rules governing fishing tournaments.

(2) Anyone wishing to hold a fishing tournament on Lake Holiday must submit an application for a fishing tournament to the Lake Committee no less than thirty (30) days before the proposed date of tournament, on the form attached in Appendix D. The Lake Committee will approve or reject the application within ten (10) days of submittal.

(3) The following are the tournament regulations to be used during an approved fishing tournament

  • 12” minimum length limit for largemouth or smallmouth bass;

  • 3 or 5 fish limit per team/boat, determined based on the time of year and the lake conditions at the time of the tournament;

  • no piercing cull tags allowed;

  • all tournaments are open to participation by any current Member or tenant of Lake Holiday unless approved for a specific purpose (i.e., youth or veterans’ event);

  • Persons who are not Members or tenants at Lake Holiday may fish with a current Member or tenant, but no guest boats are permitted on the lake;

  • all participants in fishing tournaments must obey all lake rules (e.g., speed limit, observing No Wake Area rules, only traveling in a counterclockwise direction in the High-Speed Area, etc.).