Cedar trees

I have always used oak, but today I sunk 5 cedars which I've never used before. I am wondering how long before the bait fish and crappie show up. I had an old oak brush pile (which was a big one) there about three years ago and it held lots of crappie.

Depends , green or dried (needles gone ). i rather use hardwood myself .

We use Cedar all the time....for fry, minnows, and small fish....they will pack all around in the inside. Larger fish will set up camp on the outside to feed and use as ambush cover, but the dense limbs don't allow them to get in it!
Plenty of info in here about different types and their uses.

All cover placed in the right locations can have fish on it in a hour or less....whether it is Green or dried!
We have placed Cedar, Pine, fruit wood, etc., and come back in 15 minutes and it has fish all over it and produces until it's gone...we even took pictures of the screens that are posted on here somewhere.

Needless of what others think, if you want you "Honey-Hole" to keep producing you need to drop cover like Cedar/Spruce/Christmas Trees/etc., for baitfish also....this keeps the Crappie in the area....if they have good water, protection, and a food source, they will not leave! Soft wood doesn't last as long but the decaying wood attracts the basic underwater food groups....Algae, zooplankton, minnows, craws, worms, fry, etc., and is the base for a VERY HEATHY fishing area.

Good Fishing!

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Originally Posted by NIMROD

Depends , green or dried (needles gone ). i rather use hardwood myself .

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Thanks Nimrod. Like I said, "I have always used hardwood", but my neighbor cut down ten nice full cedars and asked me if I wanted them. I have dropped six so far.

The trees are green.

I am 77 years old and over my life time I have put enough brush out to cover the lake I live on, but never cedars. LOL

Thanks again sir.
Jim

They will work. Very popular tree to use around here. We got lots of them and they are like weeds.

My experience is they are best after a year when all that is left is the branches but I have caught crappie off of them after the green browns out and they are using them as shade.

Green cedars usually end up big green slime balls.