Thread: poor mans crappie attractors

Originally Posted by INTIMIDATOR

Scat....here's some different ideas from our drops.

A few more.

Some more.
We put in over 300 of the Milk Crate habitats, each is loaded with 10 hole bricks on the bottom crate for craws and weight, and the top crates are loaded with wood...some crates were stacked 3 to 5 high....250 lb tie straps hold everything together.
We have over 1000 PVC pieces....and several thousand Natural wood pieces etc.

Intimidator, now thats what I am talking about I knew if I kelp talking to all of you professionals after while you all would give up some of you best secret weapons. I have only been fishing for crappie about 2 years now. But I have learned a whole lot just these few days reading and watching you tube. I or may I say my wife and I have been spider fishing a small reservoir here in Quitman,Mississippi. It is called Archusa water park it is not very big like the ones you all fish but it's just 5 miles from home. We have been using minnows so far but would like to switch to artificial bait because we use 6 poles in the front of the boat and 6 in the back and this starts to cost a lot when we buy them. An beleive it or not most of the time my wife catches more in the back and bigger crappie. We caught fish good through july but didn't do very good from august through the first of dec. Well I have sunk some bamboo in the past 2 years but my small cheap hb 565 has a hard time finding it or someone may have moved it again??? I read something about that also. Well I really like your crappie habitat I didn't think about using limbs like that I bet they will last a long time and the 3 crates tied together has really gotten my attention hope you don't mine me using some of your ideas. I have even tried sinking palmettos with no luck with fish over them. I have sunk cedar trees and had luck with some of them they are just so hard to fool with they are messy and will sting the crap out of me for some reason. The small reservoir we fish in is mostly 4' to 12' with the main body 16' to 19' with 2 places 25' and 30' at the deepest. The main body has hardly no structure at all so that is were I am going to try some more. Thanks for the ideas again to all you crappie masters.I will be aggravating all ya'll for the information I can get.Here is the concordances to put on Google maps to see my fishing hole.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/32...!3m1!1s0x0:0x0
or google archusa water park at Quitman,ms.

I fully understand fishing local water-holes...Our home lake, CJ Brown Reservoir, is 2200 acres and 10 minutes from my home, most of the other guys in the group are also close....that's why it was so important to us to Make it better!

I posted these pics so everyone could see and maybe be able to use them or get ideas....you're more than welcome to pick our brains also...like I said, we learned a lot in 8 years!
I only used hard wood in my cover...the 2x4's and stakes were Oak...then a buddy got a bunch of Hedge Apple (Osage Orange) and we used the heck out of it...Osage Orange may last forever, that stuff is just amazing, and the hardest stuff to cut that I have ever seen.

Good Fishing!
Brent

Admittedly, while osage orange (hedge apple) is difficult to deal with as are locust and cedar; it still boils down to `quantity vs quality`. And I for 1 still firmly believe that for speed, sheer numbers and cost that "C" trees are overall just hard to beat. You can afford to deploy them like bombs being dropped from a `Big Belly` version of the B-52D "Stratofortress" and even if only for relatively short periods of time completely "litter" large sections of any semi barren body of water and just watch the panfish population at least just go `into the vertical` along with their overall size; this abundance of prey is usually matched by a corresponding increase in the number of as well as size of predators to eat them...plus it is just so COOL watching literally a small armada set sail loaded with an arsenal of attractors and listen to attractor after attractor get "splashed" with pin point precision on high potential underwater real estate then LITERALLY WATCH as the sonar `comes alive` with fish taking up residence within minutes...the thrill that you and what ever willing souls who participated just CHANGED that body of water usually for the BETTER gives you that humble goodness of your heart benefitting the fishery golden brown lightly breaded deep fried and served with homemade hush puppy type feeling, you know ? (Pardon, me, I`m drooling again...)

Nice attractors!!

Originally Posted by INTIMIDATOR

Scat....here's some different ideas from our drops.

Surely my eyes are decieving me......... but in the last pic that sure looks like 2.5' copper pipe for the center pole.......

"When you `care` enough to send out only the `best`..." The `Friends of CJ Brown" once considered sinking a bathtub with a manequin laying in it secured to it holding a sign saying "What are YOU looking at ?" so our Ohio Dept of Wildlife District 7 supervisor who regularly dives CJ Brown would find it but then someone pointed out when you`re on Scuba you can`t laugh or you`ll drown, so we didn`t do it...