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AgriHawg, I have to commend you highly for sharing your fishing holes with others on here. Even with a mixer, it's a fair amount of work doing everything you are doing!
I never give out my spots...

Good advice Pineapple - sounds much easier than mixing up concrete. My PVC trees are even easier!

Also smart advice on cutting out holes and cutting a sprial into the tree. Crappie will get on a...

I think you can use either one and have good results. If you place either one in areas that have no structure, or enhance some existing structure, most of the time fish will use it for cover. I...

You are right Riverrat - they WILL move into green trees. But I've found that if there is any other cover that they can choose from, they will move to it before choosing the green trees. I usually...

You are right tocold - takes a surprising amount of weight even without the pallet. That is just one reason why so many of us have gone to PVC. Much easier to sink - my PVC trees sink on their own,...

Either wait until the "green" falls off the trees, or burn them. A lot of people believe that the "green" in cedars actually repels fish, and I think there could be something to this. I know it is...

ChumNCrappie is right - either let the "green" fall off your trees or burn it off. Then I would take some clippers and cut a sprial into the tree, cutting off a bunch of limbs. Most christmas trees...

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Good job Clark. The only comment I have is that you probably did an overkill with the concrete. My PVC trees sink on their own, and a brick is more than enough to hold them in place and it's not as...

I am no expert, but I think the treated lumber used on a lot of piers is much worse than PVC in a lake. What happens if you put a piece of treated wood in an aquarium?
Just because something is...

You could really do either - a great big one that is very long, or a bunch of smaller structures, arranged so that they form a line or a reef.

Maybe I'm misspelling this - but bream is just...

I sure don't know the conditions of the lake where these trash bags were sunk, but I have personally seen it done, and then went back with scuba gear, and the bags were covered with silt and clumped...

If you physically mark them in any way, other people will see it and will fish your spot. Try to line up landmarks on the shore so that you can find each spot exactly. GPS doesn't really get you...

As far as what shape the structure has to be - the fish seem to be extremely flexible. They will use whatever structure is available.
The blue gills seem to be attracted to the same structures that...

I think concentrating the structure in one area like you are thinking about doing is a good idea. The only suggestion I would add is to try and make your structure on a slope. Try to provide...

AgriHawg is right - IF you put them in a good spot, you can often fish them the same day.
When I was a young boy, my father would get my sister and I to walk around in the water neck deep until we...

There is nothing wrong with adding some trees on top of the boats - but that is not what I would do. I would use these boats as a start to a good reef - a line of structure that covers a range of...

I'm unsure as to why everyone is saying that PVC floats!!! The PVC I use for my fishing trees does NOT float. I do almost always use a brick to make sure it stays put. Also, if you do the cross...

Another cool thing about extending them down from your dock is that is makes it very easy to make a reef type structure - a line of structure that is over a sloping bottom is best. Make it as long...

Another good find is scrap PVC pipe. Lasts forever and you don't get hung up as often. Most PVC sinks on it's own, so you don't need much concrete in your bucket (less concrete = less work!).
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Thanks for the great post Guru! But it is way cooler to get paid to fish - this is actual work! Especially the way you do it using concrete. Hard work. And the clients that want you to use...

I agree with sac-a-lait and release to the grease - it's hard to get hung up on PVC. If you do get hung, it's usually just temporary - just giggle your pole up and down a little and your jig or...

If you will put a line of these condos going down a slope, you will find that you can catch crappie during more seasons than if you just put everything at the same depth. Make a reef type structure...

I often use scuba gear to map out the area around a client's pier, and I almost always find something that they didn't know was there (at least that is what they say). Old appliances -...

Several people mention the algae growing on the structure, but I'm not sure that it matters. Although maybe it does in lakes where you already have lots of structure. But in lakes where there is...

A boy was fishing a friend of mine's private lake one day, and I noticed he had a plastic worm hooked in the middle under a cork. I was headed over to tell him he had it rigged wrong when the cork...

I have yet to put anything this deep. I build crappie holes for lake front property owners, and usually build a reef type structure going from shallow to deep. The deepest I've done so far is about...

So you load all the rocks while it is still on the boat? It stills seems as if the far side of the pallet would sink before you could get the closer side over the side of your boat - making the...

I bet this stake driver works really well. Most of the reseviors I've placed strucure on (and it's been a lot) have a thick layer of muck on the bottom and it seems to be pretty easy to drive a...

There were fish both in it and above it - the structure was in about 19 feet deep water, and I wound up not moving it as far as we had planned - because of the number of fish already holding on it.