Lesson Learned Sinking Pallets

[BuckeyeCrappie]

[Rojo]

When you figure this out post the solution. Man, I know some holes in the Marsh that a pallet hotel would pay off Big Time!

[DockShootinJack]

Under some of these docks also. You get hung up unfer there anyway

[keeferfish]

Pallets take A LOT Of Weight!!!!

Green (fresh cut) wood sinks the best. Christmas trees are easy but don't last long.

[CrappiePappy]

If it doesn't come down to too expensive to deal with it, I'd opt for as many blocks as I could get on there & still be able to handle lifting them. The one most positive factor in them being extra "heavy" (from the block weight) is that the "condo" is more likely to stay in place.

If you get tired of losing jigs to wood cover ... try weedless jigheads. I've been using them for decades and have not, as of yet, seen any negative reaction by the fish, suffered lost fish after hookset, or missed fish on hookset.

[DockShootinJack]

The jigs I manage to lose now is usually from the line getting between the cross members and the piling. That results in a breakoff most of the time

[CrappiePappy]

The jigs I manage to lose now is usually from the line getting between the cross members and the piling. That results in a breakoff most of the time

That's when I usually do my little "bow to the jig" maneuver .... and try and hop the jig over it.

[DockShootinJack]

That's when I usually do my little "bow to the jig" maneuver .... and try and hop the jig over it.

That works well to get it over the cross member. Getting the line down between the 2 pieces of wood pretty much gets ya. Sometimes you can reach the rod past and work the line back out

[Fishfood123]

I did the same thing…took 6 scavenged cinder blocks to try to sink 2 pallet/cedar hotels and they floated until I managed to find a pile of concrete someone discarded in the ditch next to the borrow pit I was sinking the structure in. Took several large chunks per hotel to finally get them to sink. Next time I will take more than enuff weight and an extra hand to place the structures. Hope yours pay off for you.


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[pab1981]

Pallets take A LOT Of Weight!!!!

Green (fresh cut) wood sinks the best. Christmas trees are easy but don't last long.

What he said. Pallets are built normally from kiln dried wood, takes a lot to sink. It can be done, but need to remove as many boards as possible. It works much better to get green sawmill wood and build your own pallet beds. I have four blocks on this 4’x4’ because that was going out in the current. Two older, heavier blocks will sink a bed made from green wood like that fine if it’s not going out in the current.