Cardboard crappie condo
This morning it was a lot warmer than it has been lately, so decided to make a free-standing cardboard crappie condo. (low-rent crappie!)
The dimensions are 9" by 12" by 6" tall. The weight using 150#/cubic foot would be (if exact dimensions were used, and no bowing (bad assumption) of the box occurred) about 56 pounds. Then you have the voids in the concrete from the material to take away from the theoretical computed weight. I also added some more rocks along the bottom edges so as to use less concrete and add more weight. This added more weight. I used one 40# bag of sakrete and would guess the total attractor weighs slightly over 50 pounds.
Using the cardboard box allowed me to place plastic conduit horizontally in the base through the cardboard to hopefully keep the attractor upright after I place it in the lake. This would be impossible if the concrete, etc. were placed in a dug-up-hole.
I used electrical wiring as a lifting loop. Small holes were drilled in the conduit and PVC. Holes drilled in the conduit and PVC will give a greater bond to the concrete. Other holes in the exposed portions of the PVC and conduit will let water enter the material and to decrease the buoyancy.
Now all I have to do is wait about 7 days, get it down to the lake, strip off the cardboard and put it in the lake!
Last edited by CrappieHusker; 02-06-2007 at 02:17 PM.
the trick to catch that finnicky speck....
gently set the hook just before the peck