Cover Question

[rivercrappievt]

Crappie fishing is not as big up here in the northeast as some of the places down south. I am anxious to start setting up some structure and cover in the places I fish but I hesitate. I don't want o get in trouble, any suggestions on some smaller sized structure to sink in about 9 fow that works well?

[smashdn]

Tobacco sticks sack-creted in a cinder block work well. That is what I have been doing here lately.

[zappaf19]

Check with your DNR paying a ticket would stink.. I am sold on PVC structure. You can make them any size you want. I would like to try bamboo but Indiana does not have it
Bill

[slickwater1]

i took some 2X2 stakes cut em 2 ft. long and concrete in a roasting pan. set them in three to five feet of water and have been catching several the past few days.

[rivercrappievt]

any pics of what you've done?

[smashdn]

http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...fdaniel005.jpg One made with branches from a dead cedar (Hard to maneuver in boat).

http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...fdaniel006.jpg Tobacco stick one. Easier to deal with. Heavy so they stay in place in a lake or resevoir with current.

[CrappieTexan]

You can make these in any length you want and are very easy to put out.


You can put out christmas trees in any length.....

Good luck and good fishing............

[TeqSheriff]

I agree with the suggestions others have made, too.

For me, I was nervous about sinking some cover in my local lake because I wasn't sure what the authorities would say about it. I never could find anything in the regulations about it one way or the other.

I figured a tree on the bank that is dead will end up in the lake sooner or later, so it wasn't introducing foreign matter into the water. I cut a section of dead tree about 8 feet long, and sink it with a cinder block.

Once you get a good system figured out, it's pretty addictive to make brush piles. I've done it the last two winters, and I hope to get out this weekend to see what's going on down there.

Good luck to you!

[slickwater1]

mine look just like the ones above.