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Stake buckets?
How many do you usually put out per pile? I made them about 4 ft around and 4-5 ft tall with 7 stakes. Would 2 per spot be about right?
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I would say to put as many in each spot that you can. I have found that they work better to have 5 or 6 or more in each spot. They will hold more fish and are easier to find on my sonar and keep up with on my GPS. When I fish them and find a hot spot I will add even more their later.
Be safe and good luck fishing
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Yeah, what he just said ! (evil laughter sound effect here...)
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What else can I say. I have learned a lot about fishing habitat here on Crappie.com from people like Lowellhturner, Intiminator, Crappiepappy,NIMROD,and many many others, from past posts and from posts asking questions. And let me say it has payed back good dividends (crappie). I have caught some good crappie off my poormans habitat and other wood habitat I dropped last winter, this summer. Thanks everyone for some good summer crappie catching fun. Let me say where (legal) drop some fish habitat. It will help the fish and help your catching fish also. "Build it and they will come".
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Have you ever tried the smaller piles? I've always been more of a run and gun type crappie fisherman. I usually always try's and hit a dozen or so piles in different areas. I never babysit a pile! Drives me nuts! I though if I put out 2-3 per pile it would be a little harder for trollers and other fisherman to chance over them. Plus I'm not looking for a limit off a pile, I usually never take more than 6-10 and move on. But then again these are just my thoughts. I may need 5+ per pile just to hold 6-10 fish?
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Again, location is paramount when placing them, although admittedly the type(s) of cover and how exactly they are placed in relation to the bottom contours is also important. My own personal theory is "Sheer quantity has a `quality` all of it`s own." hence the B-52 `carpet bombing` strategy we adopted at CJ Brown. By deliberately littering 60+ individual locations with no less than 10 attractors each and a few with up to 40 plus many solitary attractors of several different types ("C" trees, PVC, "BB"s, rubble piles, pallets, stake beds, ect ) strewn all over the reservoir the reality is that A: NO ONE will find them all. B: Even assuming that they DO find every last 1 of them (they better have a LOT of spare time available !) the cover is only marginally productive in the summer when the majority of persons fish. C: Origionally being required to make them "public knowledge" has apparently worked in our favor as many persons insist on continuing to fish them in spite of catching almost nothing but juvenile fish off them leaving the vast majority of the remainder undisturbed...
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