Thread: Precautions used to put cover out in a nice bass boat

Could make a plywood temporary deck padded on bottom to set it on. Some use 2x4 's to slide pallets and such overboard.

just vacuum when youre done. no matter what you do it will be a mess.

We don't put the brush in our bass rigs.

Small trees or brush is available on the lakes we frequent. Usually, in advance, we drop a bouy near the actual spot we wish to sink the tree. Working in tandem, we edge our boat (with keel guard) into/onto the bank. Before we dismount (if it's muddy) we will change shoes, grab our 18V recip saws, baling twine and some sisal rope. We cut and drag the brush to within a few feet of the boat, then prepare the brush by grabbing rocks from the bank and inserting/wedging them in the branch crotches then wrap them to the tree with baling twine. Believe it or not we find many rocks with natural holes thru them. Then we tie off a rope leader line to the prepared BP keeping the BP as close to the boat as possible, then tie the leader rope to the boat winch ring @ bow. Then we simply back out and navigate to desired spot/buoy then cut the rope.

If we have a ways to motor we do a similar process, except we use a longer rope to tie to the back of the boat looped a couple times thru the tie-down eye with one person holding the rope. As we pull it off the bank a few feet, we'll stop and "cinch-up" the rope to keep the tree riding to deep in the water. Most of the trees we sink are not very large so we seldom have problem with trees riding too deep in the water.

I have seen others tow a small flat bottom boat with all the tools, ballast and brush in the towed boat.

Bronson...I don't have a boat, Hopefully a Z6 next year...so my buddies take my cover out to be dropped, Most Have Nice Boats....I build all my cover in rectangular plastic tubs, you can find them cheap and they won't scratch up anything. I fill the tubs with concrete, put in my limbs/etc, and after it dries, I just dump the whole thing in...the rectangular shape actually makes a VERY stable base!

An older pontoon boat with an open bow is IDEAL as a fish attractor "bomber". Depending on the size they can safely (if slowly) carry a good "bomb load". We used 1 make from semi fuel tanks that could carry 24 at once. It was our "B-52"...we commonly did 3 sets per trip, ran it right onto the beach, reloaded 24 more and with 2 people pushing away went 3 more sets of 8 each...miss that hunk of junk ! And 5 Star, our operator could put and hold that thing accurately ! Sonar pictures looked like the "C" trees were planted there ! Just OUTSTANDING results...

Thanks guys for the all the good suggestions. I"m hoping in a couple of years to get a flat bottom aluminum boat and put a temporary plywood deck on it like Nimrod mentioned. A buddy of mine has one and said it worked great and he could get a lot of work done in a short amount of time. It's funny but guys like us can't stand not putting our own brushpiles out, while others never do but are glad to share ours. Catching them out of a stakebed or brushpile you put out yourself is one sweet feeling.

Easiest on hard water.

I lay out a king size bed sheet in my boat. Will catch most all the debris that falls off the brush. After you dump the brush, just gather the sheet and shake it out overboard.