Thread: time

How long does it usually take for yall to start catching fish off your brushpiles? I set a few tonight, wondering when they might be "ripe?" I'm gonna go check in a week or so, but just wondering what yalls experiences are.

I have started catching them in a week on the better locations.The better the location the faster and the more you will catch.

These are some of my first ones. I put them right beside a bridge (not under it) on a dropoff in 12-20 feet of water. Pecan and cedar limbs, some oak. So they don't have to be covered with algea to attract crappie?

You can fish them the next day, if not the same day you put them out.

AgriHawg is right - IF you put them in a good spot, you can often fish them the same day.
When I was a young boy, my father would get my sister and I to walk around in the water neck deep until we found a stump. He had already cut a bunch of sappling willow trees, and once we located a stump, he would push the cut end down into the muck right next to the stump. You could go back later that same day and catch fish (both bass and crappie - according to what time of the year it was).
I've also done this with my sons (and hopefully they will do it with theirs). The biggest frustration is that everyone can see the willow trees, and therefore everyone else also fishes them. I've even seen boats tied up to the trees, I guess they think they are growing up out of the bottom since the willow trees were still green. Of course it doesn't take long for a boat tied up to pull them loose.