Thread: Do You think this will work?

added drift wood and pallet just sank it 25 '

I will be adding c trees tomorrow along with bricks. I was able to find a good many, I'm also going to add more drift wood with the c trees. Thanks again for the ideas.

I will be adding c trees tomorrow along with bricks. I was able to find a good many, I'm also going to add more drift wood with the c trees. Thanks again for the ideas.

All great ideas

Originally Posted by INTIMIDATOR

GBS

Please Do Not take this wrong...I'm just trying to help you!

The small tubing is a waste of your time....the time spent drilling holes for them is just wasted unless you make them dense...I mean dense like a Christmas tree, etc.
Your time will be better spent to add more BIG limbs, PVC, or boards. Big Crappie use big cover for ambush areas (dark areas) and for shade from sun and heat....the more shade you can offer the more Big fish that will use it.
If you want to use up the tubing, just make your vertical cover dense, so fish can get in it for protection....that's all that cover is...protection and a place to feel safe, or a food station for hunting or for baitfish attraction.
Another key is to drop as much of your cover together as possible, you want ALOT of cover to hold ALOT of fish....you have to give them a place that can hold a lot of fish in a school or Alot of Big Predatory Slabs.

Alot of the cover pictured was dropped in groups of 10 to 20....with laydowns shallow and bigger cover deep....but always in dense groups.
Notice the Crappie camo....this is preferred cover for small to medium fish....they still need protection from predators.

Most think that Crappie want dense cover but it is better IMO if the spacing allows then to swim through it . I try to leave room to allow a big fish room to swim through it with no trouble . I have seen stakes places 1' apart in rows , several rows evenly spaced load up .

Originally Posted by NIMROD

Most think that Crappie want dense cover but it is better IMO if the spacing allows then to swim through it . I try to leave room to allow a big fish room to swim through it with no trouble . I have seen stakes places 1' apart in rows , several rows evenly spaced load up .

You are thinking correctly...Dense Cover for Big Fish and Smaller fish are totally different.
Big Fish will use BIG Dense stuff...Osage Orange trees, Stumps, Sunken Trees, Wood Posts, Stakes, Big Plastic stumps beds, Dock Pilings, etc...they use these for shade, ambush points, and for protection if needed.
Smaller fish will use Smaller dense stuff...laydowns, Christmas Trees, cedar, 'boo, and really small dense Plastic stuff that they can bury in for protection. They also use these smaller dense brush etc. as feeding stations, because it decays faster and draws the bottom of the food chain, small minnows, fry, insects etc.

We dropped 50 buckets with 1 six foot tall, 8 inch drain pipe, in each, with osage and oak limbs surrounding it...that mine-field has been loaded with big fish for over 10 years, and is still going strong!

In my opinion anything that the fish can get in or around is better than nothing as long as it won't hurt the fish like treated lumber, walnut, or other toxic materials. It don't matter if it lasts a year or a lifetime it is still better to place some fish habitat than to not have it if the lake needs it or not. Dense habitat will hold small fish,crayfish,water bugs,frogs,frog eggs,etc. which is food to bigger fish. If you have the food the big fish will come to supper for sure. I think large fish structure-habitat is somewhat used for shade mostly as well as ambush sites for larger fish. But to my notion if small fish habitat is less important, then the eco environment is going to get out of balance and if you don't have the small fish after awhile you won't have any big ones either. This is just my 2 cents worth of thinking and it won't cost you nothing.
Fish habitat "Build it and they will come"