Quote Originally Posted by INTIMIDATOR View Post
GBS

Please Do Not take this wrong...I'm just trying to help you!

The small tubing is a waste of your time....the time spent drilling holes for them is just wasted unless you make them dense...I mean dense like a Christmas tree, etc.
Your time will be better spent to add more BIG limbs, PVC, or boards. Big Crappie use big cover for ambush areas (dark areas) and for shade from sun and heat....the more shade you can offer the more Big fish that will use it.
If you want to use up the tubing, just make your vertical cover dense, so fish can get in it for protection....that's all that cover is...protection and a place to feel safe, or a food station for hunting or for baitfish attraction.
Another key is to drop as much of your cover together as possible, you want ALOT of cover to hold ALOT of fish....you have to give them a place that can hold a lot of fish in a school or Alot of Big Predatory Slabs.

Alot of the cover pictured was dropped in groups of 10 to 20....with laydowns shallow and bigger cover deep....but always in dense groups.
Notice the Crappie camo....this is preferred cover for small to medium fish....they still need protection from predators.

Most think that Crappie want dense cover but it is better IMO if the spacing allows then to swim through it . I try to leave room to allow a big fish room to swim through it with no trouble . I have seen stakes places 1' apart in rows , several rows evenly spaced load up .