Thread: Fruit Tree Trimmings As Brushpiles

Originally Posted by Festus_Haggen

The magazine explained that cedar trees will repel fish until something in there breaks down and decomposes. It also said cedar trees aren't as effective as fruit trees; you have to put multiple ones in there spaced out a few feet apart.

Is this just cedar trees, or ALL evergreen type trees (i.e. Xmas trees)?

Mike

use anything you can get. if you build it they will come.

Originally Posted by blairarnold

My experience is that crappie rarely move into trees until the leaves are off of them. I have had some old timers (I'm getting there myself) tell me that the leaves sour the water, and the fish won't move in there until they are gone. Now neither them nor I have ever been using fruit trees, so maybe there is a difference on them. I know Nimrod likes persimmon trees, and he might be able to tell you if the leaves being on makes a difference one way or the other, and I guess you would call a persimmon tree a fruit tree.

I had the exact opposite experience with a maple that was placed in a local lake. It was fully leaved out and had a bare tree also sunk within casting distance next to it. Neither tree produced weel in early morning or late evening but during the afternoon hours the leaf tree smoke the other on number and quality of fish caught. Figured they liked the shade. Most the big ones came right out of the thickest area close to the trunk.

Trees that sour like Oaks tend to get better later after leaves are gone. Fruitwood such a Persimmon just plain work anyway you put them out.

I would bet on a bradford pear for one apparent reason plus the one mentioned also...They are thick with many limbs and there round proportion...always wanted to try them