Holiday Homework Project - Free t-shirt and Hat and Jig Scent for articles

[Slab]

The Red Thicker Slab Sauce is good, but the Yellow Liquid Minnow seems to "expand". I bottled a whole bunch up, and it expanded in the bottles. You open the bottle, and it comes out with a vengeance, doh! It's not supposed to be an aerosol!

I was about to send out all the free scent for the articles, and I can't now Include the Liquid Minnow scent. I have to see what went wrong with the formula.

Sorry everyone, but these are part of the growing pains of a new product.

So I'm sending out the packages with only the red Slab Sauce.

[kincade]

hey slab, will you be posting the articles on the main page?

[Slab]

hey slab, will you be posting the articles on the main page?

Yes, they will all be published. About one or two a week. I want to keep the home page fresh.

[shipahoy41]

Hat, sauce, and shirt arrived today. Thank you Ed and crappie.com family. I'll sure give it a try. I appreciate you.

[kincade]

got delivery, thanks Ed

[NIMROD]

Here when it's slow as the late winter can be we build and sink cover. Our favorite type is almost free. Pallets beds work great in shallow water for stageing or spawning fish. But we catch fish off of ours most of the year. Nimrod has lots of water 8' and under which is prime stakebed depth.
To start we check with local businesses which get materials on pallets. We perfer Hardwood pallets . Many places burn or pay to dump them so they are glad to see us haul them away for free. Then the local sawmills which cut rail road ties or boards for pallets have scrap they must burn. We get scraps which maybe strips, crooked, knotty or just broken boards. These we obtain for free .
The only thing other than hauling expense is nails. We use a nail gun as it's quick. Sure easier than trying to hammer nails in this seasoned hardwood. Besides ,we have contractor friend who like to help. They gladly furnnish the nail gun and most times the nails.
After getting all the materials together we build one day and sink another.
The bottom of a pallet has less boards and it shoukld be turnned up. We cut our stakes or boards to desired length on a table saw if needed. Our perefered heighth is about 2' seldom higher. The taller ones are harder to move without breaking them off. Since the big fish need room we space stakes with 8'' min gaps apart. Our pallets usually have three 2''x 4'' runners to nail stakes to. If you run short on stakes and have some pallets in poor condition ,try making leaners by putting only one long board nailed to one side of the pallet.
It can be a great time for friends to socialize having a pallet build. Then another to sink them on your favorite spots.
On sinking them you will need plenty of weight. This can also be free. We load some on our boats and launch. Usually have another load in the truck or some brings a trailer with the rest.
We have plenty of rocks on the banks here. We motor to the nearest rocky bank to where we plan to sink. Pull up and pack rocks in each coner of every pallet.Don't load weight on top but inside pallet. I saw some guy tie concrete blocks on top and those flip over. Also rocks are more dense and cheaper than cinder blocks. Be carefull not to over load your boat. After a few you will learn just how many you can safely haul at once. You should quickly learn how many rocks it takes to sink each pallet.
Procced to your favorite flat or channel drop. It's best to preselect your location and mark with a marker bouy. We slide in 3 to 6 pallets around each site.
We use a GPS to mark our locations as the pallets are diffacult to locate in the shallow water. The short stakes have little signature on a cheap sonar. Sometimes the pallets will show up some as a bump on the bottom. You can use a bouy or line ups ( triangulate off trees , rocks, or other bank features)if you don't have a GPS.
We like to place several sets about 100' apart to keep from having to move great distances as here we seldom catch a limit out of one stucture. When hunting big fish some days we fish alot of them. When you find one that produes well it can be good to place more close by. That is move 100' each direction on same depth ect and build another.

Here is a few pictures of some builds some friends and I built. The reasons we use pallets beds over other structures are cost , ease of build, availabilty of materials, they are not bad to hang up your jigs, and most of all the larger fish seem to favor the more open structures.

Note pallets are turned upside down to start (more open side up)

Here are completed pallet stakebeds before we add rocks

Here are a few leaners built without extra stakes

Here is the payoff , it can be very rewarding. Sure is great satisfaction not staying hung and catching some nice slabs off habitat you helped build.

Good luck and fill free to PM any questions.

["G"]

I got my delivery.....Thanks a bunch Ed.

[firewhatfire]

My kids like to play video games alot. So any trip out to the river I count as a win. I have found the best way to take a kid fising is to rig a bunch of jugs because that gives them real hands on. This day was my daughters first jug fishing trip and this is the largest one my son and I have caught. Big one are not uncommon, they just seem to be when I get my kids out on the water. I had a bunch of shad frozen from earlier trips so bait was plentiful. I had the kids cutting shad in half with scissors for most of the trip out to where we fish and just as we were pulling up to the general area I had them baiting hooks and tossing out jugs. We were only half way through tossing them out when I looked back and saw we had two fish on already. I didn't tell em, cause it was not my fishing trip. I just kept driving around and letting them toss out jugs till we were done. I explained to my daughter that we needed to start looking for jugs to bounce and when we did we had a fish. No sooner than I had said it my son said LOOK we had 4-5 fish on already. We started towards the the one farthest away since it had been on the longest. It was a nice 3 lb'er and got both of them pretty pumped about fishing and has as we went on for the next 3 hours or playing chase the jug. My kids had a great time and have decided fishing is more fun than they initially thought, and are looking forward to going again this spring especially sinve my story about being snatched out of the boat on another day.

[firewhatfire]

didnt know if you wanted any more stories or not but figured it was worth telling. Never miss a chance to brag on a kid especially where they can hear you do it.

[Phantom309]

Received mine Ed !
Will be trying it out this coming Friday...
Tx's so much......