Thread: Sinking of trees

Originally Posted by crappiefarmer

Some trees will go through a souring period and then they are fine. CF

Yea I've noticed that with Oak. The Willow or Persimmon trees hold fish right away. They also are easier to fish without hang ups than Cedar or some other limby trees. Willow sank in shallows may become Beaver chow. My preference is green Persimmon Trees , they are also easy to sink. One concrete block will hold them in place. Cause they will almost sink themselves when green.:D

Cedar is good. If they do give off something, it doesn't bother the crappie where I fish. Last year I put one out and a week later caught 30 big keepers off it. About a third of the 100 places I fish have cedar in them.

I sank three christmas trees last week and i'm already catching crappie, that is untill the rain and cold snap

Last christmas I got into droppng structure. My father has a dock on a 300acre lake and its in a cove that is 4-8 feet deep. 4 foot off his dock. He has lived there for 10 yrs now and we NEVER caught crappie at this location except for spawners. WEll I put in one tree and two PVC structures and caught fish from last febuary to November almost every time we went. I will say that the tree was closer to the dock and held less fish but bigger fish. Also when the bit was tough/slow the trees would always produce some slabs. also caught the biggest bass of the year off the tree. It only took two days from sinking to catching. well worth the work.

Christmas trees are better if you let the needles fall off first. I guess you don't have to, but I've heard its better. I've also heard its better if you coon tail the trees. Cut limbs out in sections every foot or so. This gives the fish and baitfish areas to hide in. Personally, I would use hardwoods, but any cover is better than nothing. I try to consider my time on the water, I want to use what little time I have to put in the best cover there is, and thats hardwood. There's plenty on blowdowns all over the banks, why not use your time putting in really good cover.

cedar will last a long time and offers excellent cover I think fish will move to it much faster than plastic