Thread: Our Crappie Build

crappietexan,

good idea putting them under a bridge. Only problem I see with that is that a lot of people are probably going to find them that way. Good thing is you get to fish in the shade! Man, I got fried yesterday fishing in that February sun!

There's no doubt that the crappie will like your spread. As far as falling over I haven't had any problem with my turning over. If you have the weight it will hold them just fine.
Good Luck

Look good to me.

We have about 40lbs of crete in each bucket, that should hold them in place. How much do you guys use ? We are getting to buckets for every 80lb bag.

40lbs should be plenty of weight. We put between 53-60 pounds of 'crete in our 'boo buckets, and there's a lot more to sink with 'boo. Those stick buckets shouldn't go anywhere, IMO. But I don't really have any experience with them.

I would expect SOME to tip over, but not all. It depends on several things. the bottom being level, where they are placed, current and some could get snagged by fishermen using heavy line, pulling them over, trying to get unhung. most should stand with enough weight. Not worth worrying about, as long as you use enough concrete. there will be 2 forces working against each other. The weight of the concrete and the floatation of the wood. In water, the weight of the concrete is about half, because of the specific density diffences between water and concrete. in effect, lets say you had 50 lbs of concrete on land, which is near 25 in water and 20 lbs of floatation of the wood. that leaves 5 lbs of weight to hold it down. by putting in 5 foot stakes, you have a lot of leverage on 5 lbs of weight holding it down. So, the more wood you have, the more weight you want. that is more of a factor on new cover, because the wood will soak up water, decreasing the floatation effect.

They are nice,prolly attrack a lot of fish.
mikeb

Here is part 2 of our build. We now have a total of 40 buckets to drop. As you see we added some boo this time just to add some sugar to them.