Thread: Bucket stake beds

Ok, this site is for people to post what and how they build sets. There is nothing wrong with doing such. There will be no putting members down on the site. If someone wants to show off their build then that is what it is for and it is also for someone to gather info on different types of structure.
If the owner "Slab" wanted it deleted he would have done so already.
This is a family site and a informational site so if you have any ideas or want to post, then do so but keep it clean.
This thread started out just fine. As far as the site being updated well that has already been done recently.

Next time post a picture of your build so we can all see. I'm sure they are not much different than others but it just makes me want to be on the lake even more when I see someone putting structure out for me to fish. LOL just kiddn.

CX.

Unless i missed something, Crappie Xtreme, no has posted in this thread anything that wasn't "clean." I have said my part and explained what my motives were for posting what i did. I did not intend to belittle, or say that anyone's post was "pointless" or "trash." No body was ever "put down."

From what i can tell the person who started this thread appreciated me showing him how to search and find informative threads on this fine forum in a more expediant way.

I agree that it is a great idea to post up your structure builds, especially with pictures. But, as best as I can tell, that was not what macliljim was angling (pardon the pun) to do.

I have no ill feelings toward anyone here and just wish that we could get this thread back on track and post something informative.

Ergo, when I have built stake beds in the past i have used broken or cracked or just crooked tobacco sticks. They are hardwood and are usually very well seasoned and seem to old up really well underwater. I put 8-10 in two hole cinder blocks and then pour some quickcrete into the holes and let dry. The only money I have in them is the quickcrete. the tobacco sticks are just laying out in an old barn we have. I have used the buckets in the past but I have had trouble getting my bucket off of them when it hardened regardless of what method i used (cutting the bucket in half and using screws to hold the halves together and then removing the screws, or a garbage bag, or some kind of "release agent")

I have had my best succes with cruising the lake drift piles and picking up old milk jugs and bleach jugs and then cutting the tops out. then I put in whatever I am using, be it canes or sticks or cedar branches, and fill with quickcrete. I am able to clean up the lake banks a little bit and get some containers that I can just chunk back into the water with some new fish cover in them. I make like a little cane pole forest when i put the smaller ones out because i usually drop five or six in one spot. So instead of having one big pile I have lots of little piles with spaces for fish to hide between them. I am just able to cover more lake bottom with much less effort than trying to push 50 pounds of concrete over the boat rail.

Macliljim, hope this gives you some ideas, sorry I don't have any pictures.

smashdn

I like your idea of the smaller structure, plus the fact that you help clean the lake of excess stuff. With my age and physical problems, as much as I want to, I cant handle the 3-5 gallon buckets of crete. A bunch of small stuff may be the way for me to go.

Wishtofish,

Some of the problems that I have run into by doing it this way are the fact that you need a really calm day to drop them on. If the wind is blowing your rig around you won't end p dropping them close enough together or in the shape you want. The other is because they are a little lighter (the jug ones anyway) they drift and are moved when they drop the lake for the winter. I put them on a lake that is dropped 25 feet in a pretty small amount of time so they did get pulled a bit form where I had them.

However, I always make trips over there in the winter time to duck hunt so while I am there I just set them back in place and dig them down in the gravel.

The cinder block stakebeds have never tipped over on me.