Thread: PVC Tree ideas

I also want to start putting dog food in a bag where it will attract bait fish but don't know how to do this since once I sink them how will I be able to add bait bag without just trowing it out in the water every couple of weeks? Any ideas?

Nice Bases...those will sit nice! I also like the center posts, GREAT SIZE!
For Crappie cover, think of a 12 inch or bigger slab trying to hide out in it! If the fish doesn't feel safe and secure, it will find something else. Making vertical cover should be the same as trees laying in the water, it has to be dense enough for the fish to hide in, with a Larger Trunk to be able to ambush prey from.
I would add more PVC around the Center Posts, just give the fish room to swim in and out.

Once you get your 'Boo out also, you will be fine...you can also lay 'boo down in the shallows close to your Crappie cover...the Crappie will move shallow at night to feed.
When You get all of your 'boo out, just get a couple burlap bags...I buy cheap 20lb bags dog food, poor food into Burlap, tie Burlap shut, attach to block or rock, and throw in the shallows on the 'boo or around the 'boo.
You only need to do this once or twice...you are just attracting baitfish etc. to the 'boo, once the 'boo starts decomposing and the PVC gets algae on it, this is what the baitfish will eat...plus all the organisms that the decomposing 'boo attracts.
You can add FRUIT limbs, soft wood, leaves, etc...like apple, peach, mulberry, etc...the soft woods, hold a lot of sugar, and this is a good food for Micro-organisms and baitfish! It just does not last as long as hardwood for cover!
Three stacked untreated wood or plastic pallets, tie strapped together with some weight on the bottom 4 corners, or sitting on 4 milk crates with weight in them, MAKES FANTASTIC shallow water baitfish cover.

Good Fishing!
Brent

Thanks for the advise. Now for the pallets I thought about taking three and making a triangle with them standing on their sides. Basically like making a box and put PVC around the edges, or boo. Or taking one pallet and lay flat, then take a couple more and break them down and stand the wood up on the pallets between the cracks making like a stake bed out of free material.

this is one I put in a couple of weeks ago be advised it took five standard concrete blocks to sink it.

Originally Posted by Tucker Reeves

Thanks for the advise. Now for the pallets I thought about taking three and making a triangle with them standing on their sides. Basically like making a box and put PVC around the edges, or boo. Or taking one pallet and lay flat, then take a couple more and break them down and stand the wood up on the pallets between the cracks making like a stake bed out of free material.

Pallets standing up like that are good FISH cover....
For minnows, baitfish, fry, etc., you want them stacked FLAT at least 3 high.....I have pics on here somewhere...you can use 4 milk crates as legs on the 4 corners of the bottom pallet...this keeps the pallets off the bottom....you can add rocks, etc., to the milk crates, then stack the pallets.
Or you can just stack pallets and wedge in weight, or tie it on....stacked pallets give the small baitfish and forage more compact places to hide and makes it harder for larger fish to get to them....this is how you increase your forage (food) population for the Crappie in the area.
When the forage populations swells, they will not all be able to hide, and will get picked off. Some will move off and start other schools or colonies of baitfish!
Most smaller fish will stay protected in the shallows, they can survive the heat and have less oxygen needs...that's why shallow cover works so well for them!

Long ago did 3 block pallets with hard wood and fruit limbs jammed thru and into the void between the slats and steel cabled to it. It allowed bigger fish under it, lost a couple of BIG fish on/ under it !

Here is how i do them

I used 400lb of sand to sink one, I just laid the bags on the bottom pallet and zip tied it down