Mecklenburg Co., VA-- It's been a debate between Southside Virginia and North Carolina for more than 60 years. The question is whether to call a lake that the two states share, Buggs Island Lake or ...

BUGGS ISLAND, Va. (WSET) -- The Department of Game and Inland Fisheries said it's investigating a drowning at Buggs Island Lake. They said Welton Gafford, 65, of Appomattox drowned Saturday in a ...

For 63 years, a lake on the North Carolina-Virginia line has suffered from an identity crisis. Now, after decades of disagreement about the lake’s name, Virginia may finally be ready to yield. To ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — After 63 years of disagreeing with North Carolina over the name of a lake that straddles the state line, Virginia may finally be ready to yield. To Virginians, it’s always been ...

Drop whatever you’re doing. Get a half dozen poles, a bait bucket and your tackle box. The crappie are biting at Buggs Island Lake. Normally, crappie don’t get me all stirred up and excited, but these ...

Even with the lake shrouded in fog so thick you could cut it with a knife, there’s no mistaking the sounds of fish on a morning feeding frenzy. “Gulls,” said an old fisherman standing on a beach at a ...

Nick Anderson, a 29-year-old Greenville, N.C., resident, hauled in a 143-pound blue catfish from Kerr Reservoir, also known as Buggs Island Lake, the nearly 50,000-acre impoundment on the ...

BROOKNEAL — There are only a handful of successful spawning populations of freshwater striped bass in the United States. One exists here in Virginia at Buggs Island Lake. Each spring, the Buggs Island ...