Originally Posted by
cricket george
Has anyone ever recovered any PVC structures to see if the algae sloughs off? Has anyone ever checked to see how much biomass was on a PVC structure after 30 - 45 days? I have. The biomass was covering the PVC after 45 days and it was h..l trying to lift up because it was so slimy. This structure was NOT sanded when I installed it.
If the structure is dropped into water that has sufficient depth that the crappie, and other game fish, are currently using then the attraction with be almost immediate.
The Okla Dept of Wildlife Conservation has dropped fresh cut cedars into piles in state lakes and gone back the NEXT day and electrofished crappie and other scaled fish off the structure. No waiting weeks for the algae to build up or cedar oil to leach out of the wood, the next day the fish were on it. This has been done on several occasions and the results were the same.