I hung six trees from my dock this spring and they were a combination of dead trees and a few (4-5 inch trunk) that I cut down myself. Five of the six were hardwoods and the sixth was a nice-sized cedar that was dead. I haven't noticed a difference between the cedar and hardwoods -- they're all producing fish.

As I've stated in other threads, I've had much better luck from these trees than I have from PVC structure I've used. I hung the trees in late March and have been catching nice crappie on them already.

I did as you said, as well. Drilled a hole through the trunk and ran some heavy poly rop through that hole to tie off to the dock about 7 feet down. I then tied on a medium-sized concrete block about half-way down the tree and let 'er drop.

The trees were 15 feet tall or less, so I have a fishing depth of around 7-22 feet covered by the suspended brush. I'll probably do that again this winter or next spring because it's worked so well.

Good luck, Earl.

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