Alfalfa hay

[Tracker123]

That's cheap.....

Talk about cheap, I pay $25 a bale here.

[Ketchn]

it isn't cheap but it will for sure attract fish ....pulled up a many bale ties in my day .....

[scout-j-m]

I can still get it for $2.50 per bale around here SW Ohio!

Wow! It's tough to grow in the south plus it's more prone to getting blister beetles in it here I believe.

[BAMA S]

Paid 9.00 bux s bale. But by the time you wrap it and buy blocked it's Probaly closer to 25 per hole. Hope it works

["G"]

It will work.....I have done it spring and summer and it takes about two weeks to get zooplankton on it to attract bait fish......dont know about this time of year.

[INTIMIDATOR]

Paid 9.00 bux s bale. But by the time you wrap it and buy blocked it's Probaly closer to 25 per hole. Hope it works

Like I said...try putting it close to some other cover you have put in, or put some more cover around this area...take full advantage of the money you have spent!

[BAMA S]

I just rebaited the holes that are producing good. I did not fool with any new or bad holes

[scrat]

Wouldn't sinking a bag or theses alfalfa cubes do the same thing as the hay? Maybe just put them in a burlap sack or big plastic onion sack and tie 1 cinder block on the end and sink, is what I was thinking!!! To me if this would work it would be a lots cheaper(than buying the wire for the bale), cleaner, and easier than the hay bales.

[INTIMIDATOR]

The idea is to have a big surface area that micro-organisms are attracted to and can feed off of, baitfish can graze on the "hay" or the micro-organisms. If you enclose the cubes, you lower the amount of "food" available to the area...the burlap, until it degrades, would only slow down the process...you still would have a smaller surface area than the bales...if you used onion sacks, you would have to drop alot, to have the same surface area also.
It's almost a Catch22

[LR77]

What depth water will you be dropping this hay in and will other types of hay will work or will any type hay work just as good.

Why does it have to be alfalfa hay? Looks like any hay or perhaps straw would work just as well. The reason I ask is we put up lots of fescue hay and I could get it cheap.