Tag: Jackson River

DARGAN COGGSHALL'S legal troubles began in June 2010, when he and his brother-in-law, Frank Garden, decided to fish on the Jackson River near the home of Dr. John Feldenzer, a surgeon from Roanoke. River’s Edge owner Matt Sponaugle, who had sold the riverfront property to the Feldenzers, insisted that the anglers leave that section of the river...

In late June I informed MidCurrent readers of a unique lawsuit brought by a landowner with riverside property on the famed trout waters of Virginia’s Jackson River. Known mostly as a haven for brown trout fly anglers and novice paddlers, the Jackson was at the center of the 1996 Kraft v Burr decision, in which the Virginia Supreme Court ruled that...