Thread: Tractor Tires?

Rubber tires leech chemicals over time. Not a good choice for fish habitat. Believe that a large city in Florida put several hundred thousand in the Gulf for a reef. Now they are spending huge sums to try to remove all they can.

don`t work well at all. build art reef about 200 sites a year. all our permits don`t allow anything with oil based or rubber. concrete is the best. stays where you put it and your grandkids grandkids ... will be fishing it.

I've often wondered about this. When I was a kid in the 60's the popular idea for putting tires in the shallow water for bass and bluegills to spawn was frequent in magazine articles like field and stream, and outdoor life. Many tires were thrown in the fishing waters for that reason. Now not much talk about doing that.

There are tires in the lake I fish and never caught much around them . People now understand tires are a poor choice and give off bad chemicals into the water .

I'm actually in the rubber business so know well what is in the rubber compounds. There is already a tire wave break on the lake so I am not super concerned with adding two-three more tires to the lake.

You want a "stump" to put on those gravel flats .... then take a 5gal bucket full of rocks and lower them down

You want to add wood to them ... fine !! That works, too. AND ... even when the wood has long since deteriorated, you still have your "plastic stump".

And if you don't want to leave the handle on the bucket, so as to not get hung on it while fishing it .... remove it and run a rope thru the holes. Use a rope long enough to have both ends in hand when lowering the bucket ... then when it's down, release one end and pull the rope back to you. That way, you make sure the buckets are standing upright, plus you can mark a GPS waypoint exactly on the bucket (if you want/need one). And it doesn't take a whole lot of rock to sink and hold a bucket.

We have tire "breakwaters" floating in some of the lakes I fish ... and the only fish that seem to hang around them are Bluegill & Shad. Bluegill feeding on the bugs & Shad feeding on the algae that collects on the tires.

IMHO ... the tractor tires would likely be better served by sending them to a recycle center, then use the $$ to purchase more buckets

Tires work I do it all the time, it's also legal to put them in Louisiana waters. I will post pics we are putting some togather now to put out.

Originally Posted by CrappiePappy

You want a "stump" to put on those gravel flats .... then take a 5gal bucket full of rocks and lower them down

You want to add wood to them ... fine !! That works, too. AND ... even when the wood has long since deteriorated, you still have your "plastic stump".

And if you don't want to leave the handle on the bucket, so as to not get hung on it while fishing it .... remove it and run a rope thru the holes. Use a rope long enough to have both ends in hand when lowering the bucket ... then when it's down, release one end and pull the rope back to you. That way, you make sure the buckets are standing upright, plus you can mark a GPS waypoint exactly on the bucket (if you want/need one). And it doesn't take a whole lot of rock to sink and hold a bucket.

We have tire "breakwaters" floating in some of the lakes I fish ... and the only fish that seem to hang around them are Bluegill & Shad. Bluegill feeding on the bugs & Shad feeding on the algae that collects on the tires.

IMHO ... the tractor tires would likely be better served by sending them to a recycle center, then use the $$ to purchase more buckets

I would think a plastic bucket would have most of the components as a tire