Thread: current

Do any of You put out brush where there is current at times? If so, How do You keep them from moving? Thanks. CF

good question....I would like to know also.

Weight it good and try to place in a bend out of the main current. Helps to put it under a cut or drop downstream where current is somewhat blocked. Build small as the larger ones catch more current and require more weight. Place in low water periods to let it settle in before high water . I perfer pallet beds with short narrow stakes as they catch less current being close to the bottom. We still have lost a few durring extemely high water some springs as the river gets bad swift . Nimrod is a flood control lake and the river brings lots of water from the mountains.

Originally Posted by NIMROD

Weight it good and try to place in a bend out of the main current. Helps to put it under a cut or drop downstream where current is somewhat blocked. Build small as the larger ones catch more current and require more weight. Place in low water periods to let it settle in before high water . I perfer pallet beds with short narrow stakes as they catch less current being close to the bottom. We still have lost a few durring extemely high water some springs as the river gets bad swift . Nimrod is a flood control lake and the river brings lots of water from the mountains.

Yeah, Location is one thing I will have to look harder at. Seems all My locations are in the deeper water for my area and won't allow me to go much shallower to dodge current. Put 5 piles in last year. each were limbs about 6 feet long. 2 tied to a cinder block filled with concrete. I figured it weighed about 60 pounds. All disappeared this year. the current on My waters doesn't get bad. just some movement when it rains. these are coastal rivers with little tidal influence. Looking for ideas on making the piles stick.CF

I fish the TN River and areas off the main body. The current seems to be strong everywhere. Even the small creek channels and bends are quite strong with current. The flats are too shallow, so I really dont know where to plant the brush. I hate to do all that work for nothing.

Originally Posted by crappiefarmer

Yeah, Location is one thing I will have to look harder at. Seems all My locations are in the deeper water for my area and won't allow me to go much shallower to dodge current. Put 5 piles in last year. each were limbs about 6 feet long. 2 tied to a cinder block filled with concrete. I figured it weighed about 60 pounds. All disappeared this year. the current on My waters doesn't get bad. just some movement when it rains. these are coastal rivers with little tidal influence. Looking for ideas on making the piles stick.CF

is it too deep to drive stakebeds with a driver? I can drive hardwood 1x1 and bamboo in 18 ft of water with mine.

I bought some real heavy old electric motors at a scap metal place for next to nothing I believe they would get the job done, even in the current.

Dropped some bamboo condos near the creek channel in the lake i mainly fish and marked them immediately after on the side image and lake levels got very high and not certain but they must have drifted off because can't find them now. They were in 5 gal buckets with about 40lb of crete and roughly 8-10 ft tall. Only thing i can figure is they acted like big parachutes and drifted with the current.

I dropped some bamboo in Sam Rayburn and the bamboo buckets had 60 lbs of concrete and I tied an additional 80 lb concrete weight with it. The bamboo should stay in place even in current. The main reason I added the weight is because of poachers and their anchors. They stick their anchors in the bamboo and brush piles and then crank up the outboard motor and try to free the anchor. I want the poachers to atleast have to work at getting their anchor back.

I use short pieces of old rebar w/ cement blocks. Lay the block on the ground and stick the rebar into the ground 3 or 4 inches inside the holes and fill the hole w/ concrete. Make sure the rebar is down when it goes in the lake. When it hits bottom, the rebar will stick into the lake bottom. I still lose a few, but the rebar definitely helps.