Hanging Crappie structure question

[mooretg1980]

Want to get some of your all’s opinion on hanging crappie structure. I currently have been using and sinking the Moss Back Rack structures with great success.

Has anyone ever stacked two on top of each other and then hung them? They are about 4 feet tall so two together would be an 8 foot high structure. Was thinking it could be hung and sunk at a depth of about 20 feet so the structure would cover 12-20ft.

Also, has anyone ever hung structures like the Moss back rack from Wave Breakers near or on main channels and over deep water? I think it might produce consistent year round crappie and wanted your all’s take one it.

Here are the structures models I use.
Safe Haven | Products | Mossback Fish Habitat |

[ezgoing]

I hang porcupine fish attractors from my slips all the time. Just need to use coated wire so the wire doesn't corrode and drop them after a couple of years.

[mooretg1980]

EZgoing, how deep is the water where you are hanging them? And what Lake?

And do you find they work better if you hang and suspend them or hang them half way or partial up off the bottom or hang them all the way to the bottom?

[jawjatek]

Yeah, where is that dock, hmmm?

Just make sure us dock shooters can get a clear shot at the fish under your dock. I hate snagging my jigs on your hanging stuff.

[ezgoing]

The water depth was around 16 ' on Joe Pool Lake. I have had them resting on the bottom and I have also suspended them at 10' so I would have 8' between the top of the porcupine attractor and the top of the water. A friend of mine has 1/2 of his porcupine attractors in his slip double rigged, with one attractor resting on the bottom and the second one suspended about the first one, using the same wire for both. He state he had 13 porcupine attractor locations in his slip, 7 singles and 6 double rigged.

His slip is an excellent crappie producer.

I have now started using bamboo for my slips, as a friend has a ready supply of bamboo and it is less work and expense than building the porcupine attractors. But the porcupine attractors do work.

[ezgoing]

Yeah, where is that dock, hmmm?

Just make sure us dock shooters can get a clear shot at the fish under your dock. I hate snagging my jigs on your hanging stuff.

Yea, I was having a lot of trouble with dock shooters tearing my mooring lines and had one tear a hole in my high pressure gas line to the motor. Also had problems with them ripping holes in my pontoon cover. Got very tired of having to buy new mooring lines every six months. After the gas line was holed I hung a dog chain across my slip, about 10' from the rear of the slip, three foot deep so my pontoon logs would pass over it. I seldom needed to replace mooring ropes after that. I also received some nice jigs and lures every few months when I would pull it out to check it.

My current slip has a lift in it which works better than a dog chain. It's extremely had to get through the lift without hanging up so most dock shooters only fish the slip one time

[jawjatek]

Well, if it is any consolation, I never shoot under a boat, only in between the floats under the main deck, because the fish are usually under the "meat" of the dock, and I can see them with my electronics, perfectly, not an ounce of doubt. I don't even stop unless I see a cloud of a hundred or more. I consider it a roaring success when I pull out 10-20 crappie without snagging a jig on maybe twice as many shots, and then I move on. Maybe I set a waypoint, maybe I don't. Good docks are hard to find.

I am respectful and follow the golden rule for other's property, but I know - oh, how I know - that many yahoos and other scurvy rats on public waters don't give a rip, and ruin it for the minority of us that are doing it right. I'll move on. Plenty more other docks on the lake, it is 38 thousand acres and literally thousands of docks. So many docks, so little time...

Total respect to all dock owners. I mean it.

[Ketchn]

I hung a pecan wood concreted 5 gallon bucket off EZs dock ,but the water is kinda shallow in that area so I just let it sit on the bottom and used the cable to keep it upright .
I have seen folks suspend Christmas trees on cables under docks

[ezgoing]

Well, if it is any consolation, I never shoot under a boat, only in between the floats under the main deck, because the fish are usually under the "meat" of the dock, and I can see them with my electronics, perfectly, not an ounce of doubt. I don't even stop unless I see a cloud of a hundred or more. I consider it a roaring success when I pull out 10-20 crappie without snagging a jig on maybe twice as many shots, and then I move on. Maybe I set a waypoint, maybe I don't. Good docks are hard to find.

I am respectful and follow the golden rule for other's property, but I know - oh, how I know - that many yahoos and other scurvy rats on public waters don't give a rip, and ruin it for the minority of us that are doing it right. I'll move on. Plenty more other docks on the lake, it is 38 thousand acres and literally thousands of docks. So many docks, so little time...

Total respect to all dock owners. I mean it.

Actually I think it is the majority that respect other people's property when they fish docks and slips. I believe it is just a minority who do these damaging things which is why I waited so long to install the chain and why I have always allowed people to fish my slips when I am not fishing them. But sadly things have reached the point where I am also considering putting up gates to prevent people from fishing my two slips. When I found two undersized crappie a few weeks ago in my fishing basket it was almost the last straw. But I still held off blocking access to my slips. I hate to block access but I am getting so tired of cleaning up after those who leave their trash behind on my slips and I don't want to be fined for fish somebody left in my basket.

I know it is just a few people who are doing things like this but I don't know how to block just the bad actors.

But to get this back on topic I know from years of experience that hanging structure, any kind of structure, will attract and keep crappie in your slip. I believe in sinking some to the bottom and having some hanging at different levels in the water. If you use Christmas trees be sure to trim some of the limbs out of the tree so you create holes for the fish to hide in the tree.

[Ketchn]

just remember this , it aint ok to hang the guy fishing your hanging structures ….just saying