Artificial structure for gold creek

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Artificial structure for sinking in Gold Creek this Saturday night, this is my first attempt at using PVC, I Generally use hardwood brush. I am open to any suggestions on my structure build. Do any of ya'll use PVC. And what changes do I need to make to the design, Suggestions welcome. I will be making three more just like it. They are made to sit right in bottom, I left all PVC open so that it fills with water and requires no weights to hold it in place. It is 6 foot long, all of the limbs are 3 feet long, it will have a fairly large profile when it is sitting on the bottom of the lake. Sorry for the blurry picture, took picture with poor lighting.

Even though it will fill with water still put some weight on it.

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Originally Posted by creekslick

Even though it will fill with water still put some weight on it.

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A brick on each end be enuff you think or do I need more weight and need to use a concrete block?

I would put a block on each end.
Good Job.
DP

Might spray foam in both ends of the main trunk, put a couple of 3' or so lead lines on it and anchor it with a block. Suspend it horizontally a little ways off the bottom. Maybe zip tie an onion sack full of dog food to it to draw bait fish until it slimes over. Looking good. Hate I am not going to be here to help.

Awesome, Slabs! Someone up in Missouri, or maybe Northwest Arkansas, makes one similar to that and sells them for a bunch of money! Good Job! Be sure and give me the coordinates for those three!:D:D

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Originally Posted by ski trip

Awesome, Slabs! Someone up in Missouri, or maybe Northwest Arkansas, makes one similar to that and sells them for a bunch of money! Good Job! Be sure and give me the coordinates for those three!:D:D

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ski trip, whats a gps, I am putting them things out after dark, and I am going to use star constellations to coordinate the drop zone for these structures. So the only way to find them after saturday will be to go look for them after dark.:rolleyes::rolleyes:

What about putting rocks, sand or dirt into the 4 inch piece and then putting end caps on it. Should be enough weight to hold it in place then. Question. Did you drill holes for the 1 inch pieces to go into the 4 inch piece or glue them on?

Looks great and I would think easier to wrestle in and out of the boat than pallets.

Good luck with the project.

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Originally Posted by Basscat1

What about putting rocks, sand or dirt into the 4 inch piece and then putting end caps on it. Should be enough weight to hold it in place then. Question. Did you drill holes for the 1 inch pieces to go into the 4 inch piece or glue them on?

Looks great and I would think easier to wrestle in and out of the boat than pallets.

Good luck with the project.

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For the limbs, I got pvc glue cap and drilled a hole in them, then took a alluminum screw(since alluminum does not rust) and screwed the caps to the pipe, then all I had to do was glue the branch into the cap. and that was all she wrote. 10 minutes of time invested. And since I Have access to scrap plumbing materials that are being thrown away, there is no cost involved in the materials other than the alluminum screws. 120 alluminum screws were about 8 bucks. Small price to pay for materials that wont rot or rust away.

Great job! It seems my work will probably get in the way of being able to be there. But if any thing changes, I will shuck it on to Dano's to help out!

Great job Slabs, keep up the good work. Oh, and I have a care package for you when we do meet up!

Hey slabs i like that idea, it seems to have a good base, good cover,not as apt to hang up on in too easily...between my 9 stake beds your pvc structure,all the brush kevs gonna bring , and what ever else the other folks bring the pool will soon be the quite the crappie hole..

I would put a block at both ends and fix them so that the big PVC is off the bottom. Laying on bottom may loose so of its effectiveness, I also would tie 20oz bottles to it to keep up, up.

I know the way you have it now it will do that.

When I do a pvc tree, I can put it in 30ft water, 10ft rope to bottom of 10ft tall tree with bottle tied to top. I am now fishing in 10 to 20ft of water. I make mine with a 10ft 4" trunk and 10ft 3/4" limbs. Or if I do like you did, I take the limbs all the way through.

But I don't thing you can make one wrong. As long as you just make it.

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Originally Posted by Midsouth Man

Great job! It seems my work will probably get in the way of being able to be there. But if any thing changes, I will shuck it on to Dano's to help out!

Great job Slabs, keep up the good work. Oh, and I have a care package for you when we do meet up!

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Well Midsouth Man, maybe it will work out for ya and you wont have to work, thanks for the Care package in advance.

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Originally Posted by SoreLipsNoFish

Hey slabs i like that idea, it seems to have a good base, good cover,not as apt to hang up on in too easily...between my 9 stake beds your pvc structure,all the brush kevs gonna bring , and what ever else the other folks bring the pool will soon be the quite the crappie hole..

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Yes nofish, it wont be long and the pool will be fixed up right with cover. then we wont know which structure to fish, but i got a answer for that to, just move from one to the other, one of them is bound to be a hotspot one any givin day.

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Originally Posted by Slipcork

I would put a block at both ends and fix them so that the big PVC is off the bottom. Laying on bottom may loose so of its effectiveness, I also would tie 20oz bottles to it to keep up, up.

I know the way you have it now it will do that.

When I do a pvc tree, I can put it in 30ft water, 10ft rope to bottom of 10ft tall tree with bottle tied to top. I am now fishing in 10 to 20ft of water. I make mine with a 10ft 4" trunk and 10ft 3/4" limbs. Or if I do like you did, I take the limbs all the way through.

But I don't thing you can make one wrong. As long as you just make it.

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Slipcork i actuully thought about doing that, but as you know the pool up there at gold creek is not very deep 10 feet at the deepest, the limbs i put on there are anywhere from 3 to 4 feet long. if i suspend it off of the bottom i would have to go to a 2 foot limb. How ever i may go to a even 3 foot limb and put them on the pipe every where so that it sets up 3 feet off of bottom. I aint opposed to that idea at all. Thanks for the suggestions, i will keep them in mind. like i said at the beginning of this thread, this is my first PVC structure to build, so i am kinda behindthe curve a little. But with the good tips and suggestions i may be settin the curve before long. I have always just sunk hardwood brush.

i know you guys know more about this than i do but i read that if you sand or rough up the pvc it will start building up with alge much faster where as it may take 2 years if not roughed up and alge is what attracts minnows to the pvc.

Im as green as they come to the whole sinking structure for crappie but i think im going to drop a 5 lb sack of dog food with all my stake beds....if im lucky i just might pull some slabs off there in a day or 2

put some iron in to so you can find it with the deptfinder

I am campimg with the scout troop tomorrow - but am fixin to run some blocks up to Dano's for you all to use - prob'ably will be closed when I get there so will just stack them out of the way....if I see stuff already there will just add to it - good lookin pvc! - and yea I'm new - usually just read...but am definitely learning from everybody's post - met crappie pro up there - he helped me get my boat out - good guy! gotta go work to do!

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Originally Posted by rocket rich

put some iron in to so you can find it with the deptfinder

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Logging it with gps, no body will be able to find it unless they are there for the structure work, unless they stumble across it while fishing

Rls, Get with me thru pm and I will give you the gps coordinates to the structure

That looks good slabsntaters!!

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Originally Posted by midnight_f150

That looks good slabsntaters!!

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Midnight, r you gonna be there tomorrow night?

Wish I wasn't deployed, I would be there to help. I was supposed to be home last week but anyone prior militayr knows how that goes. You guys be safe

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Originally Posted by general1123

Wish I wasn't deployed, I would be there to help. I was supposed to be home last week but anyone prior militayr knows how that goes. You guys be safe

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Thank you for the service you do for this country, without military men and women like yourself, we would not be able to do stuff like we are doing tomorrow night. Wish you could be there to, however your services are going to keep you away. There will be several guys there for this project tomorrow night and although you can't be there, when you return from deployment, it should be right and ready for you to take full advantage of, you deserve it, I salute you on the job you do to preserve our rights and freedoms. Thank you, I grew up military, but never enlisted, so I know how the military operates.

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Originally Posted by slabsntaters

Midnight, r you gonna be there tomorrow night?

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yeah I will be riden with wwf and deep_fried_crappie in are buddy 20ft trout boat.

Well I have seen PVC slime up in two days olduckhunter, it really depends on the water it is in. I have seen PVC Condensate drain lines completely seal of In two days.