Thread: PVC Condos in the works

Ok...the darn things have finally dried!!! Take a look and please give some feed back. I am sinking these this afternoon and will fish them in about two weeks for the first test!

looks good to me

hope you scuffed up the pvc, it not the algae will have a very hard time growing on them. Other than that they look great. I plan on making some this year also.

nope to sanding the PVC...I thought about that but didn't do it. So you've had much better luck with doing it that way?

Algae can grab into the grain in wood. Not on PVC. It will eventually build up but it takes much longer.

So how long is much longer???

peepaw: How do you get them placed in rows so accurately?

Most of my locations are on drop offs. I mark the drop off with 2 bouys about 25 ft apart. I use my TM to keep me in line on the drop off and drop a row of 6 stick condos, then put another row behind the first row....
Here is some stick condo on a secondary drop off....

Here is another location in the mouth of a cove that crappie spawn in....

Hope this helps.... Crappie love the stick condos... they normally hold at the base of the condos on the drop off side.....

peepaw:
How do you get them placed in rows so accurately?

I have a Lowrance HDS 10 with Structure Scan... Most of my locations are on drop offs. I mark the drop off with 2 bouys along the drop off about 25 ft apart. I use my TM to hold me in line with the bouys as I drop the condos. I put 6 in a row and then another row behind that one.... Crappie hold at the base of the condos on the drop off side... The most crappie I have caught on one location was 71.... it was early summer and there were lots of dinks... as the weather got hotter the bigger one started holding there.... I like the condos because I do not get hung up like on a brushpile.....