Christmass trees

[DTG]

Am i wasting my time dropping trees that i know are probably not gonna stand up?

[i-catch-cartags]

Tie you some blocks and start dropping just because they dont stand up does not mean fish want come.

[DTG]

Thats what i wanted to here. We got 26 of them we gonna drop this weekend.

[Racoon]

Bamboo is the way to go. Christmas trees by now are very dry and bouyant. Plus they seldom last more than a year. Bamboo has air chambers and will stand up for a year by themselves, but I've found that after 1 year, they will lay down. For that reason, I tie a 3 qt detergent bottle to the top of a bundle with 16ga copper wire and it stands up for a several years.

[crappie10]

I cannot understand the pointless worry about whether or not the tree is standing or laying down. Do you really think it matters to a fish whether the cover they are near is 3feet tall or 6. The fact of the matter is that crappie will hold on virtually ANYTHING in their environment. I don't have bamboo within 200 miles of here and have absolutely no knowledge of it's existence. same with a fish. put it in the water where there is no other cover and it will be used. PERIOD. if it were legal to put cover in, in this state, I am quite positive what I would use. it wouldn't be bamboo and it wouldn't be pine and under no circumstances would it have bottles tied to it. you guys are putting way to much thought into this. if you put something in the water and it wasn't utilized by the fish,,,guess what, it wasn't in the right place. put in a 100 and if you get 10 good ones, then figure out why you think the fish were on them and make another 100 and hopefully you will get 20 that time. thats how you learn.

[DTG]

Vertical structure cast more shadows and the fish can move up and down them.

[Racoon]

Been dropping structure for 30 years, height and size does matter. Especialy in deep water. For water less than 10' a tree on its side works. For 25-30' a 10' upright structure will hold fish on the sides as well as above on a warm day.

[CrappieTexan]

I tie a 2.5 gal plastic jug in the top of the tree.... keeps it upright.. works great and the crappie love it.........

[NIMROD]

Anything beats nothing. The lakes with shallow water under 10' average depth are best for short heigths. I use pallet stakebeds of which most are 2' or 3' tall .
Try removing the needles off the trees first, found they work quicker that way. The needles make them moss over here and harder to fish.

[crappie10]

I think I have it figured out. I don't fish that deep, therefore it doesn't matter to me. I almost never fish more than 15 foot down, so something 6 feet tall is plenty.