I have access to a couple of subdivision ponds. They are about ten feet deep, have rock shore lines but the bottoms are flat and barren. They hold lots of crappie, bass, and channel cats. The problem is the fish never stay in one area long. Do you think a couple of Christmas trees with cinder blocks attached on both ends, or several bales of straw dropped in would attract and hold fish?. I cant cut across everybody's yards to chase the fish let alone find them on anything near a consistent basis. They are very large ponds almost lakes. Any and all help would be appreciated.

In your case this would work great, if you search for crappie condos you will find some great pics and ideas, also my father and I set out about 50 5 gallon buckets with concrete in them and created our own stump field. The bass and the crappie will use them to spawn.

Good luck and if you need help setting them and catching them let me know and if there is no stucture you would be crazy not to do this it will work like a magnet, just make sure when you set them that no kids or anybody else will be diving into the lake, that could be ugly.

Good luck and let us know how it works,

Junie

My father has a pond in the back of his house which is in a subdivision. He has a dock that goes out about six to eight feet off of the bank. We buried brush piles in a half moon shape off of this dock in about 8-10 ft of water. These brush piles hold fish very well. So good that we rarely leave the dock to fish. We are catching some very nice crappies year round. All it takes is a little work with some brush piles and you will pull crappie off of them,if there is any in the pond. A lot of times we will fish a bobber set up around the piles. If you can get access to a small boat to bury some wood a little ways off the bank like we did I think you will have a good little spot.
dkb

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I agree with DKB. I personally prefer stake beds, but if I were you I would not use christmas trees. I would cut brush ( limbs or small trees ) tie them together and sink them. I have always had better luck with stake beds and brush rather than christmas trees. If the ponds have no brush, any will be good.

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