A number of the places we fish in kayaks have very little or NO structure and in this hot weather - the fish seem to be really scattered and hard to find. IF (big if) you can find the bait fish you can usually pick up a few, but ....most of the places I fish sure could use some man-made structures, AKA "fish attractors". I started a Google search and was amazed at how many posts there are on Crappie.com from around the country. I was really concerned about using PVC pipe - which I always have tons of laying around. Since it's not "natural" like trees or bamboo, I wasn't sure it would work, but it seems that it gets covered in algae in weeks if not days, and the "build it and they will come" theory works just fine. The nice part about PVC is that even in a kayak, I can "assemble" the structure on site and don't have to drag a real tree, bamboo stalks or lumber structures that I assembled on shore. (Ever see a guy in a kayak with a TREE in his lap...I have!) ANYWAY - I plan to place a few in some of the honey holes that I fish and will post the results as they come in....but I'm anxious to hear if anybody else has used PVC to any extent to make their structure. One comment that I saw many times on posting all over Crappie. com was that for some reason (no air bladder? I dunno!) PVC seems to "disappear" from your fish finder after a few weeks. Some think that it's the algae growing on it ...who know, but it PAYS to either mark your spot with a buoy or with a handheld GPS, cause you're probably not going to find it on you fish finder for very long. Anybody else tried PVC?

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