Thread: Help with brushing a dock??

Originally Posted by Dreamcatcher

The second best thing I have found to use is still standing burnt cedars, for one all limbs are still attached minus needles, beavers wont attack, and they get better with time. I've tried cutting cedars and burning the needles, that seemed to be rather of a pain. My opinion on sinking green untouched cedars is that they are dense, become weighted and one solid clump of unfishable mass, be better off sinking rocks. I like to use somethig the fish can hold tight into, and also suspend around, and I'm able to access both without alot of hangups. I like to use 5 gallon buckets with the lid screwed to bottom,filled half full of cement work dead cedar into, seems to work well for me......Good Luck !!

Your post reminds me of an idea that has been rolling around my head for a while, not to hijack the post but what do you all think of creating a pile of rocks (either when the water is low or dropping from the boat) in strategic areas that have little cover and no natural rocks nearby. I am thinking 5 to 10 bowling ball or slightly larger size rocks. Is it worth trying?

I do know of bass fishermen that has hauled tons of rocks to main lake points, but I haven't personally tried it. I'm a scrounger when it comes to sinking habitat, if I see something I think I can use to build a pile I grab it. I use a lot of 5 gallon buckets, one thing I do is drill 1/2" holes in them and use 1/2" poly pipe, you can get a 100' roll at lowes for about 20 bucks, fill with some cement or rocks, its clean and fairly simple and easy to fish. I once caught an after Christmas sale at Lowes and bought about 15 big plastic Christmas tree holders for a buck a piece, people looked at me like I was nuts, I poured cement in the cavity filled with stakes and 2x4 and sunk, from spring until winter I can fill a live well off of these things, one mans trash is my fish catching treasure, like they say somethin' is better than nothin' ......Good Luck !!!