Deegan & Hinkle Lakes Park — Attraction in West Virginia

This little park has it all! Beautiful and sometime breathtaking scenery, especially at dusk: check. Running, biking, hiking trail: check. Place to fish: check. Place for kids to play: check. Basketball tennis courts: check. Place to boat with dock ramp: check. Soccer field: check. Dog park: check. Public bathrooms: check. I could go on and on! I was so please with this park. Kudos again to the Bridgeport, WV Department of Parks and Recreation! Your parks make this town a really inviting place to want to stay a while! For those runners out there curious about the length of the trail. It is a mile long course along two lakes. Down and back makes two! The terrain is rolling hills and makes for a nice, short run and even better walk to allow additional time to take in the scenery. There are multiple spots to park along the trail, including both ends. The North end is parking lot only and the South end has the tennis courts and children's...

This is a picturesque area but the fishing ia a joke. Currently they upped the price 2 years ago to 25 dollars per person including any kid that is 12 or older. The people that wrote out the license said Stocking # 2 would be on 3-29-2018. In actuality the date was moved back to the original 3-30-18 planned date. Poor communication left many licensed anglers misinformed. Also not much imagination but to stock the same 2 locations (1 place at each lake) every single time . Takes all the guesswork out of the fishing. It’s like people standing nearly fishing on top of each casting into a tub. What should be enjoyed has turned into nothing more than a money pit. 25 dollars to fish just this is a joke. Should stock Simpson Creek as well...

Someone needs to clean up the foliage on the Hinkle Lake Road side. These water type foliage takes up about 1/2 the fishing spots from turn down to back onto Hinkle Road. This is the deepest part of Deegan Lake. I have caught some nice size bluegills and a few trout , I don't think there is anything else in this lake. Hinkle Lake has Bass , Channel Cats , Blue Gills and of course Bowser (my youngest named him), a really nice size old snapping turtle that loves...