Thread: Fishin Brush Piles

yeah coyote,, they're werth the money...

this is a massive log jam at BLUFF,



as many fish as I boat my screen cant seem ta stay clean,, excuse the dirty screen...

Pretty interesting topic. From what I see on the water people fish brush piles in a bunch of different methods. I'll have to agree with all the comments the fellas made, there are some really good fishermen in this bunch. I'd add a suggestion to have a little more patience with fishing a promising pile. I've caught a bunch on piles where we didn't see very many fish, and piles where we saw a bunch. I've also seen many times where the fish didn't bite at daylight or 30 minutes later, but bit like crazy an hour later. I think the methods that people use to fish the piles is probably just as important or more important than learning to stand your ground, or run and gun. Bottom line, trust your gut instinct. It also doesn't hurt to put your own brush piles in. It sure is sweet when you load the boat on your own pile.

Whisperer, yer absolutely rite there, I pull fish off of massive logjams or brushpiles eether one and they dont show up on my graph,, when the baro is high and they're sucked up close ta the timber, but they're still there...........

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Originally Posted by CRAPPIEDENTIST

Whisperer, yer absolutely rite there, I pull fish off of massive logjams or brushpiles eether one and they dont show up on my graph,, when the baro is high and they're sucked up close ta the timber, but they're still there...........

It is strange how sometimes your FF will show lots of fish and you cannot get a bite and then other times the FF shows no fish and you catch a limit.

I will fish the brushpile a few minutes regardless of seeing fish on the depthfinder. I really like to see bait balls close to the brushpiles but I catch some when they aren't around too.
My favorite technique is as soon as I can reach my shallow water brushpiles, (8 to 10 FOW), I like to pitch my jig up past the pile and let it pendulum back towards the boat. I normally catch the biggest crappie that I'm going to catch there doing this.
Todd Huckabee says that anything shallower than 10 feet he likes to pitch a jig and cork to so he can stay back and not spook fish.
I still like to get up there and jig but it doesn't take long to spook the bigger ones off and all you catch are the dinks.