Condo Placement

[Slab Rookie]

Hey Guys, Whats your ideas on the best bank to use for condos or attracters placement. I"ve heard by creek channels on edge of deep hole what else do you look for? Any ideas. Nice Greason string.

[Jason Piper]

I like to put mine in the bends of creek channels. Like Monte-NE, and Prairie Creek to mention a couple. Where the main channel comes close to land are where some of my best condos are located. I sink most of my piles in 20' to 35' of water for year round action.

[Slab Rookie]

Thanks for the information, had for got about the channel close to the bank. I know a island that has a place like that and a old beavers dam too. Does a south bank matter? Caught any in Monte Ne area yet, or would it be better to go up river now? How do you feel about Joes Creek for a condo? Well thanks again for the info. Slab Rookie

[Jason Piper]

Joe's creek would be good for a condo. Maybe at the point where the cove branches off towards the back. I try and put condos on differen't banks to avoid wind. I don't think any bank is better than the other as long as there is deep water near by.
I have caught fish in Blue Springs and in Nelson Hollow resently. I have found some wild bamboo for condos growing wild all over the place. There is a bunch down river east of Fayetteville and below Beaver Dam. I am going to cut some tommorow and build 7 new condos this week. I put 5 out last week. Now is the time before the fishing is good! I am glad to hear that you are putting out condos! Not many people do on Beaver, they just ask me or follow me and fish them for me...ha ha! If you need any placement help let me know!

[Slab Rookie]

Does this last along time, Is bamboo better than limbs off trees? Is it ok too gather it from below the dam? Dang Ive got alot of questions. Thats something else I"m glad you mentioned is wind direction, or having different locals so hopely one or two will be good. Isnt that point you mentioned about half way back in joes creek? Thanks J.T.

[Darryl Morris]

Myself and Jerry Blake put down alot of brushpiles on three different lakes. For the past several years we have been using bamboo exclusively. Some of the first bamboo crappie condos put down over 3 years ago still look the same as they did when first dropped (minus the leaves, plus some algae, of course).

One of the places we really like to drop them is on the end of points, that way you have deeper water on three side of the condo. Usually, we'll drop one in 15-18' of water and then another in 24-28' of water next to each other on the same point. This way as the crappie want to move up or down in the water column they have something at every depth. These points are also usually near shallow water coves, so they also serve as staging tops for when they run to the skinny water to spawn.

[Jason Piper]

Does this last along time, Is bamboo better than limbs off trees? Is it ok too gather it from below the dam? Dang Ive got alot of questions. Thats something else I"m glad you mentioned is wind direction, or having different locals so hopely one or two will be good. Isnt that point you mentioned about half way back in joes creek? Thanks J.T.

Yeah, that point is about half way back in the cove.
There is so much of it I don't think anyone would miss the bamboo below the dam and up the river towards Holiday Island as well! There looked to be a taller batch of it on the northern side of the 62 bridge also.