My bamboo structure.

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06-04-2010, 10:22 AM
slabsntaters

My bamboo structure.

Attachment 42234

Me and my fishing Partner made this with multiple reasons in mind. it is very large, thats a electrical wire spool all the bamboo is attatched to. The structure alone is over twenty feet long and about 8 feet tall with lots of nooks and crannys woven into the canes. the whole spool is made of wood, the drum of the spool is hollow and we are stuffing it full of dog food before we sink it. That should get the bait fish and forage fish around it fast. Once the bait fish are there, all we should have to do is, fish and hope for a reason to break out the fillet knives .
06-04-2010, 10:35 AM
tnvol

How are you gonna sink the wooden spool ?? A ton of weight?
Otherwise..I like it !
06-04-2010, 11:24 AM
RCC

That's awesome, if it'll sink.
06-04-2010, 11:35 AM
soswine

Looks awesome but I dont know how you are going to get that thing sunk. Gonna nned a BIG boat or toon to haul that much weight. Bet it works like a champ if you get it down.
06-04-2010, 01:32 PM
creekslick

Just let us know where you drop it.:D
06-04-2010, 02:49 PM
wish4fish

That thing is too big to go in lake Conway
06-04-2010, 02:55 PM
flyflinger

Bring it up to Bull Shoals, we've got plent of water. GPS Cord?
06-04-2010, 03:16 PM
slabsntaters

The weight of the spool takes it more than half way down below the surface, the 6 or 8 concrete blocks that will be attached to it should secure it to the bottom very nicely. I am sure it will be a slow sink, but once the spool makes contact to the bottom it should water log within a couple of days and the floating or staying in place should not be a problem. It really turned out alot larger than what We had anticipated. in the future We will be using smaller wooden spools. This one is a experiment, if it works we will rework the plans to make them smaller and more easily sunken.
06-04-2010, 03:55 PM
Gomer Snerd

this would be easier.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...d/091119xx.jpg
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06-04-2010, 10:51 PM
slabsntaters

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Originally Posted by Gomer Snerd

this would be easier.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...d/091119xx.jpg
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...rd/091119x.jpg

My crankbaits and spinnerbaits and plastic worms would get hung up on the wire. And them ole bass would pull me into the wire and break me off. Like I said this multi use structure. Hopefully this will help me win some bass tournaments as well as fill my freezer with crappie filets later In the year.
06-07-2010, 07:31 AM
slabsntaters

Update to my bamboo structure

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It was a bear to sink, It took 8 concrete blocks, and 6 big chunks of rock to get it to the bottom of the lake. But it is there now or till it rots away. It looked really good. The 10 pounds of dog food stuffed in the spool was attracting minnows and bream by the end of the day saturday. I guess a person could look at it like this, not only did I get a awesome brush pile to fish but i also got a good rock pile to fish as well. In the future i will use smaller spools and more brush/cane.
06-07-2010, 02:27 PM
soswine

I'm surprised you got it sunk with that. Congrats!!

Now what lake and where?
06-07-2010, 03:25 PM
creekslick

Still no gps cord?:eek:
06-07-2010, 03:26 PM
slabsntaters

Quote:

Originally Posted by soswine

I'm surprised you got it sunk with that. Congrats!!

Now what lake and where?

We put it in Conway, We sunk it by that stump with the grass growing on top of it.
06-07-2010, 04:44 PM
soswine

That thing is big enuff to stick out of all the water on conway, shouldnt be hard to spot. Thanks!!:D
06-07-2010, 06:10 PM
CrappiePro

WOW, Now thats a Condo, LOL becareful when your in the boat dropping that over the side.
06-08-2010, 12:50 AM
slabsntaters

Quote:

Originally Posted by soswine

That thing is big enuff to stick out of all the water on conway, shouldnt be hard to spot. Thanks!!:D

Many, many years on Conway, I sunk it in the deapest water on the lake and none of it was visible
06-08-2010, 12:57 AM
slabsntaters

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Originally Posted by CrappiePro

WOW, Now thats a Condo, LOL becareful when your in the boat dropping that over the side.

I was debating wheather it was a condo or a mansion, it was over twenty feet long and over eight feet tall. I used a 18 foot boat to move it to it's new location, it was way bigger than the boat. It made the boat look small.
06-08-2010, 07:49 AM
Fishtaco

When I heard Conway, I was debating as to if it was gonna be a fish condo or a duck blind! It certainly is big enough to be a duck blind.

Perhaps its dual purpose!:D:D

Good job and I'll be hunting for it sometime soon I hope, unless you decide to tell me where that stump with grass on it is. I think I've seen it in about a thousand places all over the lake this year already.:eek:
06-08-2010, 08:06 AM
slabsntaters

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fishtaco

When I heard Conway, I was debating as to if it was gonna be a fish condo or a duck blind! It certainly is big enough to be a duck blind.

Perhaps its dual purpose!:D:D

Good job and I'll be hunting for it sometime soon I hope, unless you decide to tell me where that stump with grass on it is. I think I've seen it in about a thousand places all over the lake this year already.:eek:

If you Use this one as a duck blind, bring some scuba gear or atleast a mask and snorkle. I will tell you which stump it is by, it is by the one right in the middle of the lake by the layed down log right next to the green cypress tree. You know which one I am talking about, I am sure.
06-08-2010, 08:53 AM
jcd

Quote:

Originally Posted by slabsntaters

My crankbaits and spinnerbaits and plastic worms would get hung up on the wire. And them ole bass would pull me into the wire and break me off. Like I said this multi use structure. Hopefully this will help me win some bass tournaments as well as fill my freezer with crappie filets later In the year.

I have dropped the concrete wire bamboo condos in my local lake...I don't get hung up often..You won't get hung up often on the wire...If you put the bamboo in angles...But, I don't fish for bass....I usually fish for crappie or whatever will bite on a minnow...

Darryl Morris has made some concrete wire bamboo condos over 30ft in diameter...That is using 20ft long bamboo stalks/shafts...The ones I made I would guess are between 15-20ft in diameter...I didn't only used about 16-18ft long bamboo...I plan using longer ones on the next habitat drop..

Jeremy
06-08-2010, 10:35 AM
slabsntaters

Quote:

Originally Posted by jcd

I have dropped the concrete wire bamboo condos in my local lake...I don't get hung up often..You won't get hung up often on the wire...If you put the bamboo in angles...But, I don't fish for bass....I usually fish for crappie or whatever will bite on a minnow...

Darryl Morris has made some concrete wire bamboo condos over 30ft in diameter...That is using 20ft long bamboo stalks/shafts...The ones I made I would guess are between 15-20ft in diameter...I didn't only used about 16-18ft long bamboo...I plan using longer ones on the next habitat drop..

Jeremy

I may try the wire and block next time i drop structure, that last one i did was massive and hard to get down for sure.
06-08-2010, 04:12 PM
jcd

Quote:

Originally Posted by slabsntaters

I may try the wire and block next time i drop structure, that last one i did was massive and hard to get down for sure.

The concrete wire condo is simple to make..It's also not that expensive to make..If you can come up with free concrete blocks?...I purchase the concrete wire at lowes..It is about $6 dollars per sheet....

Jeremy
06-08-2010, 04:18 PM
slabsntaters

Quote:

Originally Posted by jcd

The concrete wire condo is simple to make..It's also not that expensive to make..If you can come up with free concrete blocks?...I purchase the concrete wire at lowes..It is about $6 dollars per sheet....

Jeremy

I work construction, so materials usually aint hard for me to come up with. I usually can come up with materials to sink brush piles and build fish condo's with. My structures are usually dual purpose for tournament bass fishing and fall crappie fishing. This was the largest structure I have tried to sink so far.
06-08-2010, 05:05 PM
soswine

Might be the largest anyone has tried to sink. Looked awesome though and I bet it produces a bunch of dinners too.
06-08-2010, 06:33 PM
GCD

Quote:

Originally Posted by slabsntaters

Attachment 42234

Me and my fishing Partner made this with multiple reasons in mind. it is very large, thats a electrical wire spool all the bamboo is attatched to. The structure alone is over twenty feet long and about 8 feet tall with lots of nooks and crannys woven into the canes. the whole spool is made of wood, the drum of the spool is hollow and we are stuffing it full of dog food before we sink it. That should get the bait fish and forage fish around it fast. Once the bait fish are there, all we should have to do is, fish and hope for a reason to break out the fillet knives .

Drill 2 holes (one to let water in and the other to let the air out) in every joint of every stick of the boo, boo is very bouyant!

... then stick a gps homing device on that thing before you sink it, that thing is going to travel!
06-08-2010, 09:01 PM
slabsntaters

Why for do you think it will travel, it has about 600 pounds of rock and blocks on it. I figured once that spool is waterlogged, it would take a barge to move it. I may be wrong, I have been before. I am going to sink another 30 pounds of dog food in a tater sack to keep the bait there for a good while.:D
06-09-2010, 10:19 AM
soswine

It would have to roll up hill if its in Conway, only a couple holes deep enuff to cover that structure. :rolleyes:
06-09-2010, 03:20 PM
slabsntaters

Quote:

Originally Posted by soswine

It would have to roll up hill if its in Conway, only a couple holes deep enuff to cover that structure. :rolleyes:

soswine, you are so correct about that. but there are several spots deep enuff to sink it, just not select prime spots.
06-09-2010, 08:05 PM
LazyJ

I'm much less ambitious than you. These little 80 pound mini-condos using 2" fiberglass irrigation pipe are about all I care to handle. I'm slowly building a "reef line" of them up there at Conway in about 7 ft of water. I was skeptical that they'd work in such a stump filled lake but the half dozen I placed about a month ago are already becoming productive.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...s/IMG_3110.jpg
06-10-2010, 12:39 AM
slabsntaters

Quote:

Originally Posted by LazyJ

I'm much less ambitious than you. These little 80 pound mini-condos using 2" fiberglass irrigation pipe are about all I care to handle. I'm slowly building a "reef line" of them up there at Conway in about 7 ft of water. I was skeptical that they'd work in such a stump filled lake but the half dozen I placed about a month ago are already becoming productive.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...s/IMG_3110.jpg

Lazyj, I really like the looks of those structures, I may try that style of structure next time, all I was doing with my structure was building a reef line in a one shot structure. Those that you are making have been productive you say, well after the one I sunk, easier seem alot better,and your structures seem to me to be alot easier to make and transprt and sink to the bottom of the lake for sure.
06-10-2010, 08:38 AM
soswine

I did a base over the weekend that I think is going to work well. I lined a shallow tote box with plastic, mixed and poured 3" of concrete in it. Already had 10 12" pieces of 1/2" sch 40 cut, drilled and wire run through to anchor. Set the pipe pieces in place and let it dry 48 hours. The base is 20.5 x 14.5 x 3 and weighs about 45 pounds. When I get where I am going to put it, I will glue on my T's and 5' sections and plan to zip tie some river cane to the sections and also zip tie a pair of pantyhose full of dry dog food to it. That should help it until it gets algae covered.

About $15 per is the cost if using full 10' sections. A little less for this first one.

The one being deployed this weekend will be about 6' tall but is going in a spot that has a normal pool of about 12-15'. For deeper spots I will just use the full 10' section of pipe and the structure will be about 11' total.
06-10-2010, 09:27 AM
slabsntaters

This is the time of year that I like to put out my structure, then it will be ready for my fall crappie endevors, between deer hunting trips. My experiances has proven to me that the fish really like the structure better after it gets slick with algae and slime