Cedar Tree Question?

I'm in the process of building several pallet stake beds to sink in a nearby lake. I'm wanting to place them in blocks of 4 with a decent pile of cedar trees in the middle. We have some hunting ground up in the hills with tons of cedar trees perfect for this, but my question is are those the type of cedars most people sink? Seems like i have read on here that the oil or sent of these type trees are harder to get fish to use them. If so what would be best to place in middle. My thinking is to get denser cover in middle to hold bait fish better. Im looking to place these in 6' to 10' of water. I have a few bamboo condos in 5 gallon buckets but wanted to use those elsewhere. Any advise would be appreciated.

I remember as a kid throwing large pine limbs off in the water and catching fish there a few weeks later. I know you could catch fish off cedar, but it is pretty acidic and will break down pretty fast too. I would use what I call water wood. Something like willow that grows near where you are going to fish. They seem to last a whole lot longer, but thats just my opinion.

The red Cedar you talk about works but we perfer not to use it. More hangups and they are bad about mossing over whem sunk green. Alot of the boards on our stakebeds are Cedar and fish use those.

brush is brush and will attract fish

hardwood work more betterer

I do a lot of scuba diving / free diving / spearfishing in clear water lakes and ive noticed that catfish love to get in cedars and crappie love to hang out about 5-15 feet over the top of them. The hardwoods seems like they actually get inside of the tree instead of on top or around it. Sycamores and willows bring some serious attention if the leaves are on them. Havnt dove any boo yet ... cant wait to this year hehe . All this info is comming from a 300 foot deep 20 foot of visibility lake so i dont know if murky water fish act the same but just my 2 cents

Persimmon - persimmon - persimmon

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Originally Posted by Billy E

Persimmon - persimmon - persimmon

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When I use trees that is my choice for several reasons. The dense wood sinks easy, they are not too thick (few limbs), fish love them and waste no time using them. Oh yea some farmers hate them and don't mind letting you cut them. If I sink trees it is almost always Persimmon. Willow works great too, but if it's green in shallow water Beavers love it too!

Thanks guys for the help here. I have access to all mentioned above. Tell me what ya think about what im wanting to try here? Im wanting to place a pile of i gues "red cedars' anchored in the middle of 3 pallet stake beds i have made. My thinking is the cedars even if mossed over will attract bait fish and the crappie can hang out in the stakes waiting for an opportunity to strike! Its gonna be some elbow grease and i just want to do it right the first time.

I perfer to use min of 3 to 6 pallets per spot. Never saw the need for anything else. A neighbor started addding Oak limbs to his stakebeds. I think it defeats the puropse of stakebeds. That is open cover for big fish and hang ups are less. Each to their own.

Thanks Nimrod.

Crappie likes to use the brush to hang their eggs on to it----Stops the washing away-----Crappie loves heavy brush and I love to wiggle them out of those tree tops.

I use all the above types of material all work but only when placed in the right location for current conditions in other words some are never productive incorrect locations others are productive when conditions are correct at their locations mine are most productive during the warmer months post spawn all are in 10ft plus water .
Noslab.

Anything but walnut, 20 years and fish still won't use walnut.

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Anything but walnut, 20 years and fish still won't use walnut.

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Indians and early settlers used crushed Walnuts to kill fish.

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Indians and early settlers used crushed Walnuts to kill fish.

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i got a bud that says it works too. he said, "who needs a fishing pole?" or a yo-yo?

Ive never heard about walnut. huh learn something new everyday i guess.

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ive never heard about walnut. Huh learn something new everyday i guess.

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One of moma's home remedies was crushed green walnut husks, made a poltus to kill ring worms.:confused: Not sure the cure was not worse than the ring worm.:eek: It would burn the skin and peel but the ring worm was gone.Rofl

hey nim. if'n you got the jock itch for a sure 100% cure get that jock itch good and raw and rub a good ole big juicy green walnut hull, the inside please, on the raw jock itch and by the time someone catches you the jock itch will be gone. a that's a fact. jack. nim too. do it cause no one wants to see you walking around walmart scratching yoself down there.

Always heard you could put a bunch of green walnuts in the hull in a tow sack and smash them up, drag the sack around the edge of a pond and it would either kill or stun the fish (can't remember which) and they'd float to the top and you could just pick them up. Never tried it, but always heard that!

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hey nim. if'n you got the jock itch for a sure 100% cure get that jock itch good and raw and rub a good ole big juicy green walnut hull, the inside please, on the raw jock itch and by the time someone catches you the jock itch will be gone. a that's a fact. jack. nim too. do it cause no one wants to see you walking around walmart scratching yoself down there.

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Sounds like the voice of experience!:eek:RoflRoflRoflRoflRoflRoflRoflRoflRo fl

RoflAnd here I thought your "feeler was broke" ODHRofl

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