Thread: Big stakebed build soon

Hey NIMROD, Will help as soon as I can. I saw that stakebed sitting up on your boat when we went to town. Looks good!

Man I wish it was not a 3 hour drive to Nimrod. I would love to help will the build and help with some of those slabs.

Drop me a message with abouts when you plan on pullin this together, I live over in Faulkner county, so I might be able to make a run up thar to help out...

Holler if your up this way fishing. I build brushpiles/condos/stakebeds most days and fish only days when the sun comes up .:D
Slabbandit I got a load of pine tongue and groove flooring. I only need buckets or blocks now. Think the fish will care what type of wood it is ?

I'm sure it would last a couple of years anyway. Hey, if it's free use it!

I got some wood frams with plastic corners. I screwed and nailed them together better. Now to add up rights for stake beds and weights. Also some light pallets and tore off extra slats to use for up rights.:D Need to get more blocks or buckets and sink them soon.:D

So here's the question of the day. I have been building stakebeds for prolly 15 years in a local lake here and we have about 30 built. generaly we head over to the local saw mill and pick up a truck load of stakes. Usually only costs about 5 bucks for an f-150 truck bed full of them. The stakes range from 1 x 4 to 2 x 2. We get the stakes in the 8 to 9 ft length range.

The stake beds we build are usually 17-20 ft long and prolly 5 to 6 feet wide. We build them soo big cause usually in spring and fall you can sit on a stake bed for an hour and catch prolly 20-30 slabs. Our beds are usually in 4 - 5 ft of water near few good stumps. We usually drive the stakes into the bottom of the lake without attaching them to anything.

The question of the day is can you produce the same results with building PVC dish pan beds as you can with the ones we build.

Hey Kendall2007, Sounds like you have quite a bit of experience with stakebeds. I have an aluminum stake driver that I had built a few years ago. I am wondering if driving them into the lakebed on shallow beds would not be better than building a frame.
I'd like to hear more about your stakebeds some time as NIMROD and I are going to build a bunch.