fixed these 7 up this afternoon to drop on the next trip out. most of the pipe is 2-3 ft tall so it's going in some springtime prespawn spots
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fixed these 7 up this afternoon to drop on the next trip out. most of the pipe is 2-3 ft tall so it's going in some springtime prespawn spots
Just add water and a jig...............
Looks good
is it really that easy??
PVC doesn't seem to hold fish well around here in Ohio. Is it because there is still too much wood cover available in the lake. What's the secret?
pvc just takes a long time to grow algae witch in terms takes a long to bring in zoo plankton and stuff that feed on the algae then the minnows witch feed on the zoo plankton and so on....but after a few year PVC beds will hold alot of fish
Looks really good and should produce well for you. I agree, just add water and a jig!!!
I am about to do the same thing here only our lake fluctuates a good bit so I will be dropping 3 footers in 12-14 feet of water. I will also be dropping some 5 footers in 20-23 ft of water as well. It wont do much for Spring Crappie (plenty of shallow brush here usually) but it will sure hold them in a couple of spots here all summer long!
I like to build stake beds in shallow water next to banks that drop off 3 - 4 ft deep... Crappie love to hold there..... And they are easy to build......
sand the pvc the algae will grow a lot faster...a
if you don't sand it can get thick and slide off
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Has anyone ever recovered any PVC structures to see if the algae sloughs off? Has anyone ever checked to see how much biomass was on a PVC structure after 30 - 45 days? I have. The biomass was covering the PVC after 45 days and it was h..l trying to lift up because it was so slimy. This structure was NOT sanded when I installed it.
If the structure is dropped into water that has sufficient depth that the crappie, and other game fish, are currently using then the attraction with be almost immediate.
The Okla Dept of Wildlife Conservation has dropped fresh cut cedars into piles in state lakes and gone back the NEXT day and electrofished crappie and other scaled fish off the structure. No waiting weeks for the algae to build up or cedar oil to leach out of the wood, the next day the fish were on it. This has been done on several occasions and the results were the same.
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I've also heard of taking Christmas garland and draping over the pvc
Drill a hole, about 3/16" close to the top. insert a limp in pvc and put a screw to hold it in place, years later, when limb rots away, replace it.
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Yes....we dropped our underwater camera on our PVC bed. It only takes about a week, sometimes less, for algae to start growing on the PVC. OUr PVC is entirely unsanded and completely covered from tip to tip with green/brown algae.
The pvc that is absolutely covered has been in the water for a couple years now, the new pvc began algae growth approx a week to 2 weeks after initial drop.
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go lay a piece of pipe out on the side of your house and cover it with leaves. It will suprise you how much will grow on it in a short period of time. I season mine by leaving them outside with leaves and nature on top. Then when we need some we pull them out and the white pipe is usually brown with all kinds of neat stuff growing on it.
Thank you pineappleslap for your added input.:)
Bait your hook
I have sunk about 30 or 40 piles of brush, bamboo and cypress slats. These seem to hold fish almost right away. However, I was first sinking PVC structures similar to the ones in the pics on this thread. TO THIS DATE, (and some of them have been underwater for years) I have NEVER caught a SINGLE crappie on one! I have about 10 piles in areas that I know hold crappie cause I have caught them there trolling or jigging natural structure within the area for years. But never on the PVC. I dropped an aquaview in and saw that it DID have algea all over it. No fish. I think I caught a gar on them once.
Not really sure what I m doing wrong, I see you guys catch em on PVC all the time. But it almost swore me off of sinking piles alltogether until I discovered bamboo. Now I got this "mental" thing goin about PVC and havent used any more. SHame too, I got a plumber who begs me to come get truckloads of PVC all sizes two or three times a year after that first load I got from him. :confused: