Thread: green brush ?

work 2 weeks ago in the crappie masters, going to try for ourselves this next week....... I hear they don't last long only a week or two, while they are green........ anyone know of this...... thank you......

I find willows work good for all fish. it's really good when duck hunter redo their blinds and throw the old in the water.. MOST OF MY COVER IS OFF 10-20 FOOT FROM A BLIND easy for me to fish and doesn't get washed away.. now I have a maple tree that I just took down and will sink most of it by limbs there were 4 main limbs. any advise?? I want to try that maple breakfast juice on each limb?? PM me with good stuff

I think the proof is in the pudding, what Nimrod does works for him and what Tommy does works for him, (although 7500 a year is a pretty good tetimony). Back when I used to dive and spearfish I built a set using a large water oak and tied a cedar to the top of it as the oak is lieing on it side. My observations were that Bass would hold around the trunk which I let stick off about 3 feet with no limbs, about 6 inches in diameter. The oak was about 20 to 25 feet long, the cedar was about 8 or 10 feet. The small bream and crappie would get inside the cedar, catfish and larger bass would usually be close to the bottom under it all and the larger crappie would be hovering some where around the cedar or in and above the oak limbs. Was a real nice set of structure in a great location till someone drug it off somewhere else. I have had 2 real big, nice sets of stuff I went to a lot of trouble to build come up missing, they were waited down good. If I ever build more like that I think I will drive rebar into the botom to tie to it.

I'm cutting some willows next week and will sink about 20,- 5 gallon buckets with the willows in the sides of the buckets which keeps the brush close to the bottom. willows are about 1 1/2 inches in diameter about 8 to a bucket branches are about 6 foot long. lots of work but will pay off big time in the fall

I say build and sink what ever gives you the most confidence. I do believe from experience, that structures can be constructed with larger crappie in mind as long as there placement is in an area likly frequented by large crappie.
I have a few spots that I expect huge crappie to be there if I get bit.
Such areas are never on a flat but always along a breakline and usually built out of some fairly open limbed brush such as oak or persimmon and the smaller limbs still need a little size to them.
I love easing up from downwind and pitching my jig up there and letting it pendulem back to the boat. Hardly ever makes it back on that first pitch without that whap!