Crappie condo's

I built five of these and have already sunk three. Anyone here do this much and any ideas as to placement (depth, grouping). Putting them in a clear 50-100 acre private lake. The lake has some decent structure(points, flats, channels) but hardly any cover other than some aquatic vegetation, some floating docks, rip rap around dam, NO WOOD. It is about 50 ft deep in the middle and the banks taper down to the depths pretty quick. The lake has some MONSTER black crappie but I can only get to them when they are shallow early in the spring and sporadically thru the summer. Im hoping these will give these fish something to concentrate on. What do yall think?? The three I put out yesterday were in the mouths of three different coves in about 15-20 ft of water. :cool:

Man you are into this stuff arent you? I haven't sunk any myself but want to. I keep saying I am going to but get lazy and times passes by. The main thing I hear is to make sure you put them at different depths and locations depending on the movement of the crappie and the time of the year. Where they are in February they won't be in April and it is up to us to figure out where they will be during all the months. Good luck and don't forget to give me GPS cordinates of those locations. Ha!

Jigboy,

I wish I had the gps coords. myself!!!:(I wanted to use my boat to put em' out so I could look at em' on the finder and make a waypoint, but they were way too big for my john-b so I used a neighbors pontoon to drop em'. I have em' triangulated w/ shoreline, my luck is Ill never be able to find em' again, either that or there wont be a fish one on em' ever!!!:mad:

Here are some wonderful ideas from fishing guide on condos.
He has given me permission to use them in our "Fishin4Crappie Beyond Basics"

You could spend 1 hour there and still learn all kinds of ideas ENJOY

FISH HABITAT

That looks like it would hold fish for sure.

Slabber, that is a real good looking top. You should have plenty of fish on that top ;).

Here's a couple of sets I made up this year. I have been putting out crappie tops for the last 20 years. Wish I had put out PVC back then for all of my wood and cane tops are long gone. My wood tops would last about 5 yrs and the river cane only about 2 yrs ( Cane tops are great tops just don't last ).

I have about 10 dollars invested in each PVC top. PVC is not cheap but will last a very long time. I will drive these tops into the ground with my stake driver. Also, these tops will show up on a depth finder.


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A few fish caught off some PVC.
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Real good lookin tops---but the crappie look a lot better---:):)

Thanks for that link Bob, that guys certainly knows what he's doin and has tons of good info. Huck, I wish I had used all pvc as well, the next nes I do will be all pvc, i got me a deal w/ the local plumbing supple place to get their scraps.:D Im hoping on checking them soon to see if they have any fish on em', curious as to how long it'll take for them to utilize the tops. Im outta commision for a while (almost cut my right foot off!!:mad:) and am trying to heal it myself so i dont have to go to the doctor(dont have any health ins rite now) but i hope to be off the crutches soon so I can get back out. Wanting to put some big tops out on the Flats on Cave Run soon, but gonna do some trial and error w/ the ones I've already put out first. Thanks for the help and info fellas.:)

Nate