Experimenting with boo buckets

I recently built 5 bamboo buckets like these and dropped them in Lake Catherine 2 weeks ago. Went to fish on them this morning, but no luck. Had no problem finding them with the gps & fish finder. I even pulled up a few bamboo leaves, so I know I was on em. I'm still very new at using the fishfinder, but it was indicating fish on the boo buckets. Fished for about 2 hours with out a bite. I had my 13 year old daughter with me and after 2 hours the wind and cool temps were too much for her, and I have to admit without a bite it was starting to get to me too, so we called it quits. I dropped these buckets in 17 fow right on the edge of a drop off into the main channel. It drops to 30 ft real quick. The lake is probably about 5 or 6 ft low right now, so it will be a little deeper come March. I hope these buckets pay off. I guess time will tell. Gonna keep building & dropping. It's bound to pay off...right? :donoAttachment 114866

As you said... Keep building and dropping.. Some will hold fish better than others.

I have caught fish on them the next day after dropping them.
I have some that have never held fish.

Good looking buckets. If they are showing some fish now, it won't be long till a person will be able to do good on those.

Not sure if I should ask this in separate thread or not, but are there any rules that govern where you can drop cover on different bodies of water? I've seen some area regulations say you couldn't put anything other than wood, but I haven't seen any kind of centralized info other than in a few cases.

I have to admit, I dropped those buckets, then wondered afterward if I had violated any regulations. I have placed a call to the Entergy lake management phone # for Lakes Catherine & Hamilton to ask and am waiting on someone to return my call. I won't be dropping any more in Lake Catherine till I find out for sure if there are any rules governing this. But whats done is done. I wouldn't think there would be any problem with boo buckets on Lake Catherine since the AGFC list gps coordinates for boo buckets all over Lake Hamilton, and both lakes are owned by Entergy. Hoping this works out favorably for me.

Easier to ask for forgiveness than permission....?

You got some there looks like a palm tree farm!! That ought to hold them!!

Deezer it depends on which lake and time of year on the depth you sink them. Some produce fish only seasonal and some never produce for one reason or another. On COE you are suppose top have a permit but some agentcies enforce regs more than others.

After Christmas every year the COE workers here leaves stacks of cedars lying on the ground beside all the boat ramps for people to sink.

They look pretty tall inside the buckets from that picture??? Course the ones we sank here 3 or 4wks ago were tall too but most of them went to deeper water. I'd think it was just too soon to have much luck off them but that's just me. I'm going back out tomorrow for a day of green carp fishing and I may have to troll over my piles to see if they have any new residents myself:biggrin. How many per spot did you sink, think you'd said 5 but did you put em all in the same place? We put least 3 per spot and some places 4. Good luck on those though, this Summer they could be hot spots! Catherine was a lake I never go on while over there and we were just out of HS on Hwy 7 so not that far but I never made it to Catherine other than on a golf course or 2, lol.