Cedar

[newblade]

How long will cedar last?

[CrappieTexan]

I have some I put out 3 years ago and they are still holding crappie....
I put a jug in the top so they wil stand up and not lay on the bottom....

[Johnny Reb]

I've found that cedar will last a long time if you use a big enough tree. I sank some back in 95 and I still fish it, made it out of a tree about 8" diameter at the base and about 15' long. It lays on it side and I can still mark it. When I look at it with side imaging, looks like it has most of the large branches left. Bet it has 100lbs of jigs on it! Some of them mine. After that many years, others have found it.

A tree that big is hard to tow into place. A sighn of the times in North Carolina is that when I cut and sank that tree, it was woods, now its all $1,500,000 houses every 100' down the shore. Can't hardly take a leak when fishing.

[Gadget Man]

I have one that has been in the water at least eight years. It was probably 4-5 inches at the base and 8-10 foot tall when she went in...lost two jigs on it this past weekend!

[Johnny Reb]

bamboo...............it works.

[dav803]

how much concrete or weight does it take to sink a tree like that? 4"or5" trunk 10 or 15' long? it will be just my luck i will tow a tree out in a lake and the thing will float !

thanks

[LOZcrappie]

A medium sized concrete block did it for me when hanging trees that size from docks -- although a couple of them did sink slowly and on one of them I had to move the block further down the tree to get it to go down. A full-size block should definitely do the trick, though.