We've never done as good with Cedar ,lots of small fish and stayed hung. Oak works good but some such as Willow Oaks are to many small limbs and sour bad. We perfer Persimmon , they have few limbs and not as much time soured. I've caught slabs same week as Persimmons sunk. I have over 100 tops in Nimrod made of everything. PVC , Oak , Bamboo , Persimmon,and various other trees. The persimmon and older Oak tops(over 1 year old as Oak sours bad) produce more slabs for me.
Good luck p.s. Did you dry the cedar out and knock off the needles? That seems to help and prevent moss'n over as bad.:D
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