Rural Retreat Lake is a 90-acre DGIF-owned impoundment. Many anglers enjoy fishing for Muskie and Bass in the lake, as well as a fully stocked trout pond adjoining the lake.
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RURAL RETREAT LAKE UNVEILS NEW FISHING PIER
Visitors to Rural Retreat Lake in Wythe County will have yet another reason to smile this summer, as the Virginia Department of Game & Inland Fisheries (DGIF) has just completed work on a second fishing pier at the 90-acre impoundment – this one being located on the southern shoreline of the lake, roughly 1,000 yards…
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT CATCHES A FOUR-FOOT-LONG FISH AT RURAL RETREAT LAKE
Last week, the Virginia Tourism Corporation named Wythe County’s Rural Retreat Lake as one of the Commonwealth’s “13 Favorite Campgrounds,” this weekend, a local high school student from Rural Retreat proved why the county managed park made the cut. Saturday evening, Harley Mitchell, 17, was fishing from a boat with friends inside the 90-acre lake when…