Hello,

Looking for info on Sandy River Reservoir in prince edward county VA. Would like to try it in the next couple of weeks. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Sandy Creek is trolling motor, only.

Launch, and start fishing the shoreline all around the lake to back to the launch site.

Have fun.  

Sandy River Lake is NOT an electric only lake yet. It is and always has been a 10HP max gas motor limit which is the same as Briery Creek and Nottoway Lake.

One of the things that attracted me to this lake is the 10HP limit. I fish a local reservoir that has a 10HP limit. I have a 16ft aluminum monark bass boat with a yamaha 9.9 4 stroke. I love lakes with HP limits and am looking for some new water to fish.

Can you give me any advice as far as typical patterns for this lake in the fall? Any thing I need to watch out for?  I have fished briery creek before and that lake has a tremendous amount of timber everywhere.  Got my boat hung up alot at briery. Not looking for any specific places to fish. Thanks in advance for any info.

Wayne, right on the motor size,

I was thinking of a real bass boat and not a jon boat.

my mistake.  :'(

With the more open water at Sandy, a crankbait this time of year works very well. Just fish the upper 1/3 of the lake and stay near the creek channels where the bottom depth is less than 10'. There are areas were small cypress trees are located, fish those dropoffs with bottom bouncers like jigs, Tx rigs. If you want to catch a bunch, use a lightly weighted wacky rigged finesse worm.