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I'm new at this part of fishing but I've become addicted to building brush piles.I mostly use the bamboo in buckets like I learned from this forum and I'm curious about how long I should wait to fish them.I've been dropping a few every weekend and with my step daughter advice we tied shimp to them before sinking the trees to help speed things up.Will it hurt anything to go ahead and try a few of these new brush piles out?
Good Question I've sunk a few latley and I'm wondering when I'll catch fish off them.....
I'll be at Hyco this Sat. so tell me where they are and I will let you know if you should fish them or give them more time.:biggrin
I would say you could start anytime. Just depends where they are and time of year but they usually start holding fish pretty quick if in right area.
It depends on the location and time of the year, but I've caught fish off beds that I had placed just a few days earlier. One big long trimmed cedar we placed at the mouth of a cove in early March produced 11 or 12 fish the following weekend and 2 limits the next weekend. The plastic beds I place may have a few on them in a few days , but hold more fish once they get a good growth of algea going. I'm just now starting to fish some of the deeper beds I placed this Summer and have a bunch of shallow beds that I may not hit till Spring.
This is my own experience: In mid March our group, the "Friends of CJ Brown Reservoir" were doing our 1st large drop of 40 "C" trees in 8- 15 fow on #10 the group furthest away . Terry Judy, our fearless and quite capable "bombadier" for the escapade loaded the 1st 8, and departed to the drop site, and made 2 passes on it to read the bottom before "splashing" them. Keep in mind he ALWAYS has his fish alarm mode "On". Hears 2 faint "beeps". Comes back, we "reload" the boat, and off he goes. Once again our fearless fish attractor placer makes an orientation pass to align his "bomb run" when LO and BEHOLD! He said the fish alarm started going off almost constantly ! The "C" trees weren`t in but 40 MINUTES AND WERE HOLDING FISH ! IN MID MARCH! He made another pass, accurately "splashed that 8 and came back again. Once loaded, he said "My back`s hurting. Lowell, come on along, I`ll navigate, you drop them". OK by me, so off we go. He slows down, aligns us up, suddenly starts laughing like he`s lost his mind and says "Do you hear that?" I`m REALLY thinking he`s gone "around the corner a little fast on 2 wheels" when it suddenly began. That fish alarm honest to high heaven sounded like an alarm clock gone disfunctional and seriously awry; it wouldn`t SHUT UP until we were well clear. "HURRAY!" yells I, "We`ve hit the MOTHERLODE!" He`s laughing so hard the boat`s going the wrong way. He then proceeded to tell me about his 1st 2 passes before dropping ANYTHING. I was STUNNED. We made it a point to have everyone present go out and "splash" a load with him. They ALL became "believers"...BTW, that spot was recently redone with PVC also added and is a GOOD walleye and crappie and yellow perch spot in early spring and late fall. Point is it happens FAR faster than you might think...
Theyre at the boat ramp righ behind the lake authority boat house under a no fishing sighn.Let me know how you do!lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Good Stuff
WOW!Now that was fun read,thanks fr the info
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Originally Posted by Lowellhturner
Or better yet I willbe there to lets just get together and try them out.Quote:
Originally Posted by bassaholic
It's going to be Sunday now since I was informed today of a birthday party for a family member I must attend.
We (Friends Of CJ Brown Reservoir) tested this theory again this past JULY....we had another MAJOR drop of mostly PVC and Plastic Cover...15 minutes after dropping cover it was holding fish and we continued to check it throughout the day and following week! LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! :):):)LOL
I was curious as to whether you all try to catch any of these fish that are on the beds 15 minutes after you drop them? http://www.crappie.com/crappie/image...atchhed%20.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by INTIMIDATOR
Unfortunately carrying a pole AND a load of attractors at the same time is BEGGING for a broken/ lost pole. HAVE fished them several HRS after "splashing" them; 18 crappie over 12" and 2 14+" smallmouth and a cat all from the deeper edges in mid May. There were NO fish on sonar in the immediate area prior to the "splash"; then they appeared as if by magic, but APPEAR they DID. Catch them and fry them up I did...we did NOT do this "out of the `kindness` of our hearts"...
Thanks for all your advice,I caught fish off a brush pile I put up two weeks ag this weekend,nothing major but I caught some!
No, we haven't tried to catch fish fresh off the cover! We just go back to check on it and see how it's doing!Quote:
Originally Posted by pomme guy
Actually MOST of the Cover we drop is not even fished...As I have said before, we are trying to improve our local 2200 acre "Barren Bowl"...most of the original 1970's cover is gone and the entire fishery needed RE-COVERED. The Local Fishermen (providing Cover, time, effort, money, etc), size and creel limits, and Mother Nature (great spawns, and NO shad Kills), have all combined to do a GREAT job helping to return it to it's original glory!
Don't hesitate to use horizontal bamboo beds as well as the upright style. The horizontal beds are best close to shore in shallower water. This gives the bait fish and fry a place to hang till they put some meat on their bones.
I put half of the bamboo tops at one end and the other half at the opposite end, and tie them at the middle, with a cement block, large rock, or whatever holds them down. Once sunk, they kind of "splay" out and offer a lot of small to micro slots where the little guys can hide. The bigger boys will come by to try for a meal, so it's kind of a double win. Not too effective in the Winter, unless you live down here in the South...but still useful in the warmer months.