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Ive sank a many of willow top in deep deep water, but never have sank anything to prepare for spawn. So fill me in, i already read about the bamboo condo's, great idea. But what depth's should i be focused on right now, and for future use later on like in late feb and so on. Thanks alot.
I have good luck jamming as much river cane in the side of a cider block. Prop it up so that it creates a large shade spot. I put these in about 2'-3' of water. I always look for newly fallen trees in the area, I use a long jig pole and try to find them in all the branches.
Each lake ,the depth is relavent to average depth and water color. Here our local lake except for the river channels is 2 to 8' deep. The water is stained to muddy most of the year. We catch fish close to the bottom most of the year in 5 to 8'. But during the spawn at normal levels the Crappie may spawn in 1' of water.
I do best on the channels and humps out from spawning coves. Sink cover at several depths as Crappie move alot during pre , during, and post spawn.
If you want to use cane in shallow water try this.
Take a plastic 5 gallon bucket lid , bore holes with a lockset drill saw. Don't cut out hole completely. Push the bamboo 1/2 way through (all one direction). Then tie the butts ends together. Weight middle and butt end. Thish makes like a laying down tree. I have made them in the past 20' long !
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An idea inspired by Nimrod's sketch.....try sinking a few cedar trees sideways using a weight at the butt end and one near the top of the tree using enough rope to allow the tree to suspend a foot off the bottom horazontally. It will make it more permanent if you tie a couple pieces of styrafoam on the tree to keep it afloat (suspended) after it's waterlogged.
I know you said you've read about the bamboo condos, but did you read about the flat mats and mega mats made from bamboo? I'm planning to sink something similar to those in the next month or so.
J