Thread: Working on my first pvc structure

Hell, you better put two or three buckets for that three story condo.

Gonna plug up to hold enough air for it to stay standing ?

Looks good. You Can tie a jug on the top to get it to stand up right. I hope yours does better than mine as I have put out close 150 and not done any good to speak of off them.

I have better luck off pallet beds like nimrod builds or just big wood brush piles.

Looks good to me. Build it and they will come.

Please do not take this wrong....this is going to be a helpful and constructive opinion!

OK, here's the problem that we found with PVC like that......
Look at pictures of Crappie in cover....The cover they like is dense, and they can move around in it, or it provides shade, ambush points, supports bio diversity, draws forage, etc.
To really allow the Cover you built to be used, you will need to add at least 5x as many small PVC "branches" to the main trunk, or put plenty of same height trees or limbs directly beside and around it...this piece of cover alone really offers nothing except the Base trunk!
To build good Crappie cover you have to understand what they prefer....Big Stumps, dock posts, downed trees, root systems, tree tops, etc., this is what you have to provide for them to be effective.
Then you have to decide how many fish a single piece of that cover will hold, then you build an area to hold a certain number of fish, and build multiple areas if needed....then if you want your areas to replenish themselves you have to build or put in cover for spawning, minnows/baitfish/ fry, craws, and micro-organisms. This gives you a self-sustaining ecosystem!

Would have to agree. Perhaps cutting the main trunk in half and wedging the smaller diameter PVC inside the block holes might be denser and more productive. Denser cover tends to attract smaller bait fish which in turn attracts bigger fish particularly crappie. DO agree having a couple of natural attractors near by can be VERY effective; the 2 types together are the BEST overall combination that we have found so far especially with the PVC on the deepest end...

That's why I post here. That's all great advice. I agree once I built it and stepped back it was very thin. Modifications are in the works. Thanks again.

Originally Posted by Riverrats1

That's why I post here. That's all great advice. I agree once I built it and stepped back it was very thin. Modifications are in the works. Thanks again.

Man these guys have helped me a lot, only problem I have is I'm a one man band. It's a lot work putting this stuff out