I have very little experience with boo compared to Jerry and Darryl i followed their lead and built some tall trees and mats and have some success on them the trees produced for the first few months but lately i seem to catch mostly dinks on them the mats have been far more consistant with nice fish every trip coming off them,i experimented about a year ago by building a stake bed out of the bigger boo poles and i will say that it produces just as well as my stake beds that are built out of oak stakes,the reason very well could be that i fish on the upper end of my lake and the water is always stained up there.