Thread: What do you build to attract Crappie ?

We used to build lots of stake buckets . We have close to 2000 brush piles , stakebeds and ect in several lakes . We found drove in stakebeds were much easier . I retired from sinking over 2 years ago and use livescope , leave building stuff to the young guys . Wonder how many even bother anymore , just scan for others work ?

Very interesting

Nice stake bucket structures. Build it and they will come. You’re right and probably not many building them anymore.

Nice build !
Most want put in the work or the time do it now days ! A lot want even take the time to scan for it now they just idle around and see someone catching fish then pull up in your lap and try to run you off!

Still put out 100-200 per year, not many left in our area that put anything out though, most just the few do the work.

Originally Posted by pab1981

Still put out 100-200 per year, not many left in our area that put anything out though, most just the few do the work.

Made lots of those till started driving stakes .

Originally Posted by NIMROD

Made lots of those till started driving stakes .

We drive some beds too but on our lakes the fish spend most of the year in water too deep to drive stakes in.

Originally Posted by pab1981

We drive some beds too but on our lakes the fish spend most of the year in water too deep to drive stakes in.

Exactly opposite on our local lakes . Most of the year spent shallow here .

Still lots of folks putting in work. Maybe not like it used to be, per capita of fishermen though. Oddly enough, my better fish come off of what appears to be natural trees that had floated down and sank. How do you like those stake buckets? I've never put in actual stake beds. One place I fish relatively frequently when I'm on that particular lake, has had someone install a small stake bed. I caught a 2.18 off of it first fish of the year this year, in January when they don't really use cover here. That said, I went back this weekend to that cove, and when fish are all over shallow cover, and it was oddly enough, barren.

Always wondered is it legal all places or just some lakes to drop


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