The water usually remains cooler longer in the brook trout streams way up in the SNP... so that's one good option. The website for Murray's flyshop updates conditions there frequently and it'll say so if he thinks it's too hot.
Another option is to fish some of the local lakes and ponds at night -- challenging with a fly rod but not impossible by any means, particularly if you have a boat; a surface strike on a big popper in the dark is enough to make you jump out of your skin, though timing the hookset without the visual can be difficult... if that bothers you, fish subsurface with a streamer and there will be no doubt. I can't say I've had a lot of success at heavily pressured Lake Anna but some of the guys out there every day catch impressive fish. VDGIF keeps it open to fishermen 24/7 and I have had some fun and caught some fish (bass and bluegills) there, including in the middle of the night. Lake Brittle also is open to night fishing but seems by appearances to have suffered from the drought and maybe some silting from the major repairs they've done to the earthworks.
I'd not advise wade fishing big rivers or new areas at night, that's a recipe for becoming a statistic.
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