Thread: Sinking Christmas trees

Originally Posted by goblerblaster

I think my post got highjacked to a discussion about lake Conway !!!!!

Sure did, sorry!

Originally Posted by goblerblaster

When I go back to where I put them in the water, they seem to have disappeared after a few days. How much weight- i.e. concrete blocks - does it take to keep a 6 foot tall cedar tree from moving away in normal lake water??

2.

See how easy this way to get back on target.
My apologies for my part of the hijacking, but it is what we do best.

Shows how a word here or there can send us somewhere else. Is it being male or our age?

NO Problem,,,,,,just funny This is the most replies I ever had to a post !!!

Originally Posted by canebreaker

Shows how a word here or there can send us somewhere else. Is it being male or our age?

we are the first in the history of mankind to communicate in this manner.Maybe we just don't know what we are doing yet? We went from rotary dial phones to push button phones to cell phones,to internet,to.......in a mere whisker thin span of time considering.Heck ,indians sometimes made the same kind of arrowhead for thousands of years without changing.People fished the same way for thousands of years,now look...

Originally Posted by doggone

Heck ,indians sometimes made the same kind of arrowhead for thousands of years without changing.People fished the same way for thousands of years,now look...

If the Indians had figured out how to troll, we may not have any fish to catch....oops hijacked again.

It may sometime take 3, goblerblaster

Dardanelle is the problem, not your tree anchoring. In most lakes cover will stay put unless somebody moves it for you. The water in Lake Dardanelle sloshes in and out of the bays, up and down the river like tides in a big dish pan. It's really evident at the bottlenecks......tubes,bridges,pits,wingdams....Ba ck too the highjacking.

Kindest regards,
Terry

If you weight them properly and not in direct current (creek channel or choke point like bridge or other current funnel) they should stay. I have sunken brush in Dardanelle and it has stayed. I use concrete and rocks or old real concrete blocks to hold them. Some are on channel drops just not near anything like bridges that constrict currents. But also I have put them in the river at Nimrod and most stay in bends even more so if there are stumps to help hold them . The thing I have trouble getting to stay in place is bamboo because it catches lots of current and also takes extra weight because it holds air and floats . If you use Cedar trees try drying and/or burning to remove needles, they work better faster and don't catch as much current . I like bigger trees with just few bigger limbs over thick stuff Crappie can't move through and only use the edges . As a rule of thumb nothing you can't put a 8'' square block through . This allows fish access to the entire cover not just edges .