attempt to sink brush

[Fetmo]

WOW yall should have seen me on the lake this evenin never tried to sink brush tops LOL....it was as screwed up as a soup sandwitch

note to self:"dead pine trees float like a nobodies business" & and it takes more than 1 cinder block to put um on the bottom.

So if anyone fishes Adams Lake area in the next few days yo will see my brush a floatin round....:p
I got very frustrated and just left it.

up side was Toni Mae got to see her first lake sunset!!!

Fetmo

[WVS]

i wouldnt worry with those pine trees. go find you some bamboo and put in 5 gal buckets with a half of bag of quickcrete. sinks like a rock. and fish will be on them sooner. most trees half to go through souring process that might take a couple of months and during this process there will hardly be any fish around it. with bamboo,after 2wks, aglae will be growing and that starts the chain reaction. aglae, baitfish, CRAPPIE! Bamboo is the way to go! I have sunk bamboo and went to it 2wks later and caught crappie. There is one thing to keep in mind, just because you put it out doesnt mean that crappie will be there.

[GCD]

You can't take the easy way out or skimp on weight when sinking structure, you're just wasting your time if you do.:rolleyes:

Even if you use just enough weight to sink the structure, if you don't have enough weight your structure will move and be "lost". Overkill is much better than trying to just "make do" when sinking structure.

Moving water is very strong, and even a slow current will move stuff. Lakes with Hydroelectric dams have much more current than most folks think. Even if your lake doesn't have a hydro dam, you can still get wind current and it can be strong too.

[creekslick]

Is this the same GCD that usually belittles everyone? It's nice to see some good info come from him.:D

[slabbandit]

Hey FETMO, We've all been there. I got one buddy that still won't help me put brush out after I almost drug him out the back of the boat with a huge tree drapped across the boat. Persimmons make good tops. They are dense and naturally heavy and takes very little weight to sink. I only use the ones that are about as long as my 16 foot boat now for easier handling.
Try this next time...Tie the butt of the tree to the front of the boat and the tip to the rear. Take two 5 gallon buckets with lids filled with rocks and attached to about a 3 to 4 foot piece of nylon rope, solid copper house wiring, or some other fastener. Have the buckets in the boat where you can tie them to the base and about 2/3 up the tree. When over your drop point, untie the tree and just flip the buckets over the side. I like to take a hole saw and drill a large hole in the middle of the tops to help them fill with water quicker. Personally, I remove the handles and wire thru holes drilled in the side of the buckets. I don't want to get hung on the handles plus I believe that the handles might rust away too soon.
This is what works best for me now.

Dave

[mikeg]

I would never use pine tops at all. And old fisherman told me the east way to sink it it is usaly plenty of rocks around get u some chichen wire and put rock in and tie rope on it and to your brush works good

mikeg