So being bored and seeing as everyone has killed the known brushpiles around here i decided to make my own little combo, a few questions tho.
1. How can i make it stand straight up, i have herd of the 2 liter bottle trick does this work?
2. Is placing them in a marina illegal? i live in tx an have checked with the lake but they didnt specify. Obviously dont block boat traffic but just curious
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How deep you going to sink them?
have my toon on a dock in a lake without much structure and going to put something under it. still debating what and best way, so always looking for whatever works for someone.
I hear that. I wouldnt waste time with pvc from what i have read, natural trees seems to attract and hold the most from what i have read aswell. Since we have freshwater crabs here in the brazos river im going to try and make them some homes inside the concrete. Maybe have a cup set on its side for them to hide in
I wouldn’t count pvc out. Lakes I go to there’s days they’re on pvc and not wood and days they’re not. Best to have various types of structure out. Branches vertical, branches horizontal, wood stake beds, plastic stake beds, etc.
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Goes to show you cant judge the fish before fishing, i personally would prefer pvc due to how easy it is to work with but everything i seem to read say just get some sticks an sink em, got into reading about zooplankton and the alge that grows. I hear that most ways to "chum" for a fish is either dog food, range cubes, corn ect,ect. But what about a bottle of alge fertilizer to boost the entire food chain from the bottom? I gotta try it to see if it brings in the baitfish, seems fairly cheap aswell. Might poke some holes and sink it on a string to get it down around brushpiles/pvc condos.
Yeah I don’t know, people I know as well as I don’t chum, bait or add anything other than the structure itself. No problems catching crappie. If anything if they’re not at one pile go to the next and the next until you find em. Last piles I sunk were with my buddy a couple weeks back. We sunk 4 permission tree branches in morning and on the way back to ramp 8 hours later had a crappie, bass and a couple misses off them. In the past I’ve sunk structure and caught fish the next day. From August to October last year I sunk 20 something branches, stake buckets and pvc and tore them up September-November off of them. I doubt algae had much time to form on them. Don’t over think it. Just drop a lot of structure in various places and see what works.
Last edited by DrNip; 08-12-2017 at 09:32 PM.