Originally Posted by
perchjerker108
Adam, 1st want to say our KY DFWR is one of the best for fish attractors. Spend past 12 years in SC, and they DO NOT put much or any effort in fish attractors. You have 30X times the fish attractors in KY lake versus the attractors in the entire Santee Cooper lake system(Marion and Moultrie). Now, I agree with MRDUX, 4-10' MINIMUM depth even at draw down projections would be the best. I know this would put some in 15-16' feet at full pull, but these could be used year round.
Now, something 'Outside the box' for Bluegill and Redear attractors. I fished Santee for several years for Bluegill. Had a hard time finding consistent locations for the bluegill except for about 5 or 6 personal docks on the lake. I fished under these docks and absolutely killed the Bluegill and Shell Crackers, but never hug up in any brush. So, We had a major drought a few years at Santee, lake was 8 feet down, which for this system, reduced the lake water area about 35%. I went out and checked my 'Special' docks. Since the lake was down 8', I wanted to see why these fish were under these specific docks. What I found was the dock owner had bought these Blue plastic swimming pools, about 6' in diameter (kind you see at Walmart) and had placed them under their dock. Also, looked like they had put about a 3"layer Pea Gravel inside these swimming pools. Now, I then knew why ALL of these dock were hot spots for me. I would STOP fishing after 10 fish per dock, but I assure you I could have caught 4 times this at each dock if I kept fishing what I eventually referred to the 'Swimming pool' pattern. Looks like this works well for drawdowns on the lake. The lip on the pool edges keep sand/dirt from silting over the Pea Gravel. One dock owner had a 150ft dock (bank to end)ranging from 0-15 ft of water and had 20 of these pools under the various sections of his dock.
So, Please consider something like this as an attractor for the Bluegill, Redear people. Man, I know it was a sure bet for me at Santee when I found these little blue swimming pools with pea gravel in them.