Reply With QuoteI've never had any luck out of them myself. The branches are too dense for the fish or anything other than the smallest of bait fish to get in .
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Christmas Tress .....( attractor)
I've been thinking of sinking a few x-mas trees left over. What do you guys think ?
Natural Christmas trees--not artificial trees--make excellent crappie attractors.
Insert the trunk end of the tree into a 5-gallon bucket filled 3/4 of the way with concrete. After the concrete hardens, place the tree in an area of water that does not have an abundance of cover. Alternatively, attach the tree to a concrete block and then sink it.
its got to work if you thnk about it .....input welcomed
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I've never had any luck out of them myself. The branches are too dense for the fish or anything other than the smallest of bait fish to get in .
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I have never used them, but I have been told that if you burn all the little branches off they work great.
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I've also read to take a pair of pruning snips and open a few holes by removing some limbs. That sounds like it would work .
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Get some cane about 6-8ft long and stick them in at angles around the X-mas tree to form a big area of cover and it will work great I mean like 10-20 sticks all around and with the leaves still on. Throw them in a line on a shallow ledge if you can and report back in about 2-3 months.
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I don't have any experience myself, but have been told (for what it's worth)
They work better without the needles on.
Sounds like the same thing as mentioned earlier of trimming the small branch tips.
Good luck and give us a report
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I have seen what they look like after a year or two in the water. Barren River is drawn down 25 foot in the winter. They end up being about like a pointy fence post with a few nubs sticking out. Once you get past the main trunk they reall don't have that much meat on them.
A bucket with cane is probably better but doesn't seem to last as long. A bunch of christmas trees set pretty close together are good the second and third years. Like a forest of stickups. One tree won't amount to much.
As more and more people are getting out of tobacco I am able to get tobacco sticks (good hardwood) and use them in buckets and in cinder blocks. They are sturdy and last a long time in the water. Three arranged in a triangle on a sloping point is a very good tactic.
There is lots of good info in Crappie cover and structure forum.
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I agree on the christmas trees, they arent much good at all unless they are really big and spacey. I see the ones in cave run at draw down and i dont fish em anymore. You would be better off using cane or stakes and pallets and you could definitely attract more fish than the christmas trees.
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