Thread: Do You think this will work?

Most stuff will work if sunk in the right spot .

You'll want to stabilize the base to keep these from falling over. Someone will get snagged on this and pull it over, for sure

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.

Place in rows shallow to deep and put the BIG stuff on the deep end. And doing naturals shallower then switching to PVC deeper is about THE set up we found. the resulting bio-diversity (range of present species in the overall food chain especially on the lower broader end is just unmatchable. Broader food base and more biologically diverse = MORE fish !

one im building now I have been doing them like this for years, had good eesults

Originally Posted by Andrews

one im building now I have been doing them like this for years, had good eesults

Yep...plenty of places for them to hide and feel secure in!
You still have enough room in those big ol' buckets to double up and hold some shrubbery....then you have the best of both worlds!lol

I think I'm going to add some cypress and pecan limbs in there. I cut 55 gallon drums in half and put all kinds of stuff in them.

Originally Posted by Andrews

I think I'm going to add some cypress and pecan limbs in there. I cut 55 gallon drums in half and put all kinds of stuff in them.

If it gets too heavy you can just sink the wood in the same area beside the PVC...this has worked well for us.
When I first started using Hedge Apple (Osage Orange), I didn't realize how much I was putting into Plastic bins...and I didn't realize how dense and heavy it was...It ended up taking 3 of us to lift the stuff and drop it into the lake!
Then I started really making the barrels, bins, and buckets full and dense with BIG Lightweight PVC, and then adding Osage limbs to really fill it in and bring all that natural goodness!
Hard dense wood not only lasts a long time, but it also kicks off the ecosystem...by bringing all the micro-organisms, which brings baitfish, craws, etc, to feed....which brings the fish you want to feed, hide, etc.!
The BIG PVC, when sanded with 60 grit, will allow layers of algae to build, which will also bring in the bottom of the food chain...But the Big PVC has a better benefit...shade and ambush points for BIG Predators.
Like Lowell said...if you build the cover starting with laydowns, brush blocks, pallets, cedar, Christmas trees, etc. for baitfish in the shallow water, then medium sized cover close by, then the big stuff deeper, you will build a self sustaining areas that will replace the fish that you take.
Some guys just drop stuff and can't understand why it stops producing...Crappie will follow the same paths over and over throughout their life...if you remove a lot of fish from a certain area, it can take a long time to get fish back in the area....you have to offer them something to get them to change their patterns.
If you provide plenty of food for them, big safe cover, and places to hide or ambush, then the fish will come and stay!