Thread: Free Room and Board

While I was fishing this morning I saw someone who had a boat full of ones just like that.
I didn't see where he put them though.

Not many folks were out today. Were you tucked up around the bridge, a black aluminum rig out on the stump field flats, or working the north bank?

Tucked up under and around the bridge when you were heading out. 16 foot Jon with two old men in it.
Should have stayed home. One tiny bass.

Lol. When we saw you that load was the last one. Been marking potential locations all year, only took a few hours to clean out the trailer!
Been dropping beds for the last 2 days, time to play tomorrow!!!

Looks good I'm building twenty just like them this week and dropping them this weekend Built fifteen last fall and caught a few off them today...

That's great to see more people doing that. My son and I are building some this weekend to drop next week in Barren. Hopefully by next year we'll be able to fish them. Going to drop them during the week when very few people are on the lake. Shhhhh!!!!!!!! LOL

Originally Posted by arc2014

That's great to see more people doing that. My son and I are building some this weekend to drop next week in Barren. Hopefully by next year we'll be able to fish them. Going to drop them during the week when very few people are on the lake. Shhhhh!!!!!!!! LOL

I've dropped both bucket beds and brushpiles in KY Lake and caught fish within a couple of days off them. I've also had other fishermen fishing on them within a couple of days. That's just part of putting them in the lake.


I do have a question: those who pour the stake/buckets who don't leave the bucket on them, how do you treat the buckets to get them to release from the concrete? How long do you let them cure before you try to get the concrete/stakes out of the buckets? I want to do the ones I do in the future without the buckets. I see pics of them with just 8 or so inches of concrete around the stakes, no buckets. I used to have a source of all the drywall buckets I could haul off but no more.

I was just thinking about the fact that 5 Gal buckets are getting expensive. Here is my plan - I am going to get some heavy cardboard boxes - I have a source for those. Then I am going to buy some fairly hefty plastic garbage bags and line those boxes. Place my stakes, pour the concrete and when it sets pull as much of the plastic off as I can. Now I have to figure out where to get the stakes. I have a few cedar trees growing in my woods that will work, but not many.