jighead56

Been fishing Sandy River Res. for the past two days. 1st day we found fish hitting our soft plastics, while working the 5-12' dropoffs up the impoundment. Took a few on jig-n-craws...pumpkin seed. Today I wanted to fish down the lake to the right of the ramp. Planned on the channel edges with 16'-20' of water with deep ledges. Took two 6.1 lbers (22.5" & 21.75"). But both identical wieghts. A number of 3 lbers to sweeten the creel pot. Heading back in the morning for a few hours before taking the 4 hr. trip home. I'd post some pics but, I guess I'm not allowed too pull from my phone gallery. Oh, well. Again thanks for the guys. Jighead

I know what location you speak of and after living in the area for over 30 years I have yet had the privilege to shore fish it. I'll assume you have not car topped a boat in there yet? HopeHope the proposed shopping mall doesn't ruin the impoundment. But at least we still have the rest of the surrounding lakes to fish. Wonder if it too has Walleyes? Probably too swallow though, I'll bet. Are you part of the bassaholics? If so, I fished one early spring tourney with you guys this year. I like Bromley. JD

Well I made it. Looks like a great site and hope to participate often with what I learned and need to know here. I live in the Va. Beach Va. area. Am fortunate to live on a small bidy of water and enjoy catching and photo bombing my catches out back. Love LM Bass and Smallie fishing. Then there is the Walleye, crappie, striper, and even flounder planned trips that breakup the monotonous fishing day. Again thanks for letting sign in. Jighead

Well I made it. Looks like a great site and hope to participate often with what I learned and need to know here. I live in the Va. Beach Va. area. Am fortunate to live on a small bidy of water and enjoy catching and photo bombing my catches out back. Love LM Bass and Smallie fishing. Then there is the Walleye, crappie, striper, and even flounder planned trips that breakup the monotonous fishing day. Again thanks for letting sign in. Jighead

Sam, I (we) do appreciate the reply. I belong to a lot of forums and all have their requested to follow guidelines. I will do as you mentioned and introduce myself. Was having troublewith the app for my phone so I was surprised to see it posted once i got on my home computer. Smart Phones, what would we do without them. As mentioned in my to posts, we hail from the Va. Beach area and one of is from Clifton Forge. We haave always wanted a try at the famauos Briery Creek location in hopes of a wall hanger. We did fish the lake with some success but most were short fish. So I read about some that would rather fish Sandy which some mentioned was a big fish producer. Patterns are what they are, fickle and up the bucketmouths digressions. I guess all that we have learned from our many years on long days on the lakes fished should be all we needed to know. Color choice, water clarity, water temps and key areas (without devulgence of gps cordinates of ones honeyholes...nobody likes giving that info and is respected) was what I was hoping to figure out before we launched. All baits and tactics you mentioned are in our arsenals and mindset. Thanks again for the feedback and hopefully it will be a productive weekend. And I will be back. Jighead from Va. Beach.

I was hoping someone would be willing to help out a fellow angler here. And am surprised no one one has commented yet. Its always a challenge and in most cases fun to figure out a new body of water. But, given the few days we have to hook on to a pattern we could sure use the help. I figured that's what this forum was all about. I dont need to know where one's honeyhole is just enough info about the lake to be productive for this time of the year . Guys, I can catch fish as can, my 3 long time fishing partners. We just heard that this body of water has the potential to be a rewarding visit. So if you're willing to devulge just enough, it would be greatly appreciated. If the info needs to be kept secret, then mums the word. Send me a private message and I'll keep your best solution for a great weekend on the hush hush. Thx, Jighead

June 17-20. Planning a few days at Sandy River this weekend with a couple boats and hopefully a productive fishing trip. And am aware its an electric motor or 9.9 only. We just wont start our big motors. As a newbie to this location but, can say we as a avid bass seekers, can catch fish, was wondering if anyone can give a recent report of their success here during this season here at Sandy River. We may revisit Briery as well. Assuming it's moved into the post spawn season, any suggestions of a productive pattern(s) and prime locations would be a great help. We hail from the Hampton Roads Va. Beach area and have made one trip to Briery Creek this past early spring with a disappointing creel. Topwater early and late sounds good to me but, not knowing the water temp at present, I would think the fish are seeking shade and deeper ledges later in the morning through mid day. Would it be wise to seek the deeper sharper ledges of the narrower "S" turns of the impoundment? Crankbaits, Jig-n-craw / worms and dropshots, wackyworms seem to be a good presentation for this time of the day. What do you think? June bug or blue black on the slower presentations. Buzzbaits, Flukes, Grassfrogs sounds productive early and late, at least that's whats working in our hometown impoundments. But during the higher sun periods, I'm guessing. Obviously slow down but, what's your productive presentation and lure(s) of choice? Thanks for the updates, if anyone is willing to comment. <:}>>>< Jighead