Located on Back Bay in extreme Southeastern Virginia, Princess Anne Wildlife Management Area serves as the Game Department’s major waterfowl hunting area. Hunting opportunity is further enhanced by a long-standing cooperative agreement with Virginia State Parks that provides limited access to False Cape State Park for hunting waterfowl and deer. Four tracts, totaling 1,546 acres, make up the Princess Anne Wildlife Management Area. Beasley, Trojan and Whitehurst, are on the western shore of Back Bay, a slightly brackish body separated from the Atlantic Ocean by False Cape. The Pocahontas Tract, a group of marshy islands, is at the south end of the bay. The Beasley and Whitehurst Tract is a combination of marshes, man-made impoundments and upland. Impoundment water levels are manipulated to promote vegetation for wintering and migrating waterfowl. The blind stakes at Princess Anne WMA are open to first come/first serve hunting Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays during the September Canada Goose Season. Beginning with the opening day of September Teal the blind stakes are managed through the Quota Hunt system. Youth waterfowl hunters and their chaperones are reminded that archery hunting will also be occurring on the Beasley and Whitehurst tracts on Oct 24. All hunting is carefully controlled in an effort to provide a quality and successful hunting experience. Waterfowl hunting is permitted from designated floating blind locations on management area marshes and near the shoreline of the state park. Use of the floating blind sites, available from the Princess Anne Headquarters at the Trojan Tract. The Whitehurst and Beasley Tracts are not open for the September youth deer hunt day. The Whitehurst and Beasley tracts of the Princess Anne Wildlife Management Area will be open for archery deer hunting October 1-31, (excluding Sundays). These two tracts, which are primarily marsh and wooded wetlands, combined are approximately 700 acres and are located in the City of Virginia Beach just east of Creeds. No lottery approval or daily reservations are required. Hunters may scout the area prior to the season on Sundays and portable tree stands are welcome. Participants will be required to wear blaze orange. For more information contact the Regional Office at (804) 829.6580. To minimize disturbance to waterfowl, trapping is not permitted on Princess Anne WMA without written permission.