Sweet Briar Dam - Monday, January 8, 2007

I fished sweetbriar yesterday afternoon/night pretty hard for 6 hours and only managed two bites. I started by putting up my house, punched 3 in the hut in about 25 feet on the bottom with 3 different minnow tipped jigs and I had my customary smelt pole set up outside the house. i fished for 4 hours without a bite. I then moved closer to shore, punched 4 new holes...I have a hand cranked by the way. Im now in about 13 feet of water....nothing, not a bite. I move in closer one more time, getting as close to the bank as i can and i punch a hole and I was thinking it was more, but it was only four feet of water....i put a tiny minnow (landers small) on it thinkin maybe id get a perch or something....after an hour or so i decide im going to move it back 10 yards or so away from the bank and get into 10 f.o.w for the night bite.....as I was cranking my hole my reel started running crazy. I was only a few yards away from it so I got to it in just a couple seconds, set the hook, fought it for a few minutes and caught and released a 23.5 inch walleye.....caught one pike on my smelt as well right before we left.

Tags: briar, sweet, dam, january, monday, 0, minnow, night, fished, hours

Region: Sweet Briar Dam

Categories: Fishing