Thread: Christmas Trees

If you use Christmas trees use a gallon jub or two to keep them standing up. If you don't they will catch silt and lay flat on the bottom in a very short period of time. If you have access to any white oak trees, the top of one makes the best crappie shelter. They will be there for years. If you do not have access to oaks then the best is a bamboo in a bucket shelter.

http://www.crappie.com/condo/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kURszI2P-QY

It is a law on Crappie.com whereas you muss add the waypoint of each condo to this site.

I started building crappie piles about 35 years ago. We always used a big oak to start with and then we would add bushy stuff around it. Later I learned about wax myrtle, and boy is it good. It sinks easy, lasts forever, and stacks well on your boat. I tried the bamboo condos on Da Hill and showed my cousin how to build them and he tried them on Lake Jackson. He has caught about a million crappie off of his condos on Jackson, I never had much luck with them here. One of my boo piles had some good fish on them for one winter, that's it. The other piles, nothing. I am going to try them one more time this year because they sure are easier to build and make a great brush pile, I just didn't have much luck here on da Hill with them. I usually put about 12 to 15 buckets on a drop. Have you all had any experience with them working on one lake and not another? Maybe I just put them in bad places but that sure never happens with wax myrtle.