Sunk some brush this a.m.

I’m pretty new to crappie fishing, about 6 months in now and definitely addicted! I made a couple of brushpiles from an idea I saw on hereAttachment 358445my boat isn’t quite big enough to transport the piles already assembled some this worked nicely. I took 2 with me and assembled them on the lakeAttachment 358446i sunk them on a point in about 13 fow just before it drops off to 40 ft into the river channel. Hopefully they’ll hold some fish!Attachment 358447Attachment 358448 my side images kinda suck. Lol. I’m still learning


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Welcome to C.C
You did good ! I like the idea how you put them together on the water ! If you take 1 or 2 every chance you get you’ll have plenty places to fish before long!

use osage orange also called hedge for your brush it lasts a long long time maybe longer then any other kind.

Good looking brush bucket

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Originally Posted by Slabprowler

Welcome to C.C
You did good ! I like the idea how you put them together on the water ! If you take 1 or 2 every chance you get you’ll have plenty places to fish before long!

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Yes sir! I’m definitely building more and gonna sink them in different depths until I figure out what they like at different times of the year. The north end of this lake has a lot of standing timber but is pretty shallow, most of the south end was cleared before filling and is deeper water. This is the area I’m concentrating on, thinking if there’s not a lot of other cover the fish will definitely use what I put out.


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Originally Posted by ichabod

use osage orange also called hedge for your brush it lasts a long long time maybe longer then any other kind.

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Not sure that I have any Osage orange around me, I’ll have to check... I used pecan limbs, just because I have an abundance of pecan trees in my yard so it was easy to cut limbs the size that I needed


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osage orange will have big green balls ,softball sized this time of year and thorns on the limbs. they used the trees for wind breaks on property lines in illinois .they were also used for fence posts .

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osage orange will have big green balls ,softball sized this time of year and thorns on the limbs. they used the trees for wind breaks on property lines in illinois .they were also used for fence posts .

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We call them "Hedge Apple" trees around here.

https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/7b3...t=401&fit=crop

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Originally Posted by CrappiePappy

We call them "Hedge Apple" trees around here.

https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/7b3...t=401&fit=crop

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Ohh ok.. yep I’ve seen them around here before, but I don’t think there’s very many of them


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Welcome aboard. My preference is bamboo as it lasts a long time, the crappie love it, and it allows you to pull the hung jig out most of the time. We have lots of boo around my area, not sure about yours. Good luck!


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