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Hey Billbob:
I like having two or more condos in an area depending on the structure we're placing them on. On narrow points that extend into deep channels we put them at several different depths down the point so the crappie can move up and down the point with seasonal movements and lake level changes and never need to leave the area except to go to the shallows to spawn.
We try to place them far enough apart so we can fish each of them without disturbing adjacent condos. Then we can fish one for a while, move over a few feet and fish another one and then come back and fish the first one. Seems like when they get finicky you can only catch a few crappie on each condo but if you move off for 20 to 30 minutes and come back you can usually catch a few more.
I've been told that you can have too much cover in an area because it can scatter the fish or make it harder to find the "Dinning Room" but I've not experienced that.
One of our best areas on Greeson is where an old creek channel makes a big turn around a flat after being straight for several hundred yards. The top of the flat is anywhere from 15-feet deep (right now - lowest I've ever seen the lake) to 28-feet when the lake is way up but when we're fishing the area it's usually between 18 and 24-feet deep.
On the inside turn of the channel the bottom drops quickly from the edge of the flat for about 6-feet and then flattens out for about 50-yards before it drops quickly to the bottom of the channel - another 8-feet or so.
We have condos on the top of the flat a few feet back from the drop, on the first drop, on the bottom of the first drop at the next level area and then at the edge of the last drop to the channel bottom. There are probably six good brushpiles plus several other rotted down ones in that area.
About 50-yards downstream from this area we have about the same set up but there is really only one continuous drop from the flat to the bottom of the channel there so we don't have as many condos but they are at about the same varied depths.
Across the channel from this area there is a narrow point that extends into the channel with a very steep drop so we just have a couple condos there that start at the top of the point and extend down the drop. It is so steep that when the shallow side of the cover is in 15-feet of water (depending on the lake level) the deeper side is in about 26-feet of water and the condos are only about 20-feet across.
Except for when the lake is extremely high we can usually catch crappie on several of the condos in this area and sometimes on all of them any time of year.
Sorry for rambling on but the point I am trying to make is that how many we put in an area depends on what type of structure we're putting the condos on.
IF YOU BUILD IT THEY WILL COME!
