Crappie Structure. Will this work?

Here is my new design for a crappie condo. I learned about this on the internet. A fellow had a swimming pool that he put crappie in. It didn't have any structure, so he threw in rake or hoe and before long, all the crappie in the pool were schooled around the handle. Sooooooo...if this works as well as the experiment in the pool, I expect all the crappie in the lake to be on this in a week.

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I would have done it in pvc so I could drag cranks over it, but I know the fish don't like plastic as much as wood.

I use the exact same thing , only I make a couple x with 2/4s about 2ft apart, should work!

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Hmmm...I'd like to know if that works. You know how many of those you could churn out in a short amount of time?!?

Should be good for your 1 fish limit lol

If you have several of those in a row, you have made the same as a fence line. I always catch fish on flooded fence lines!!

Could drill holes in two of them...run pvc through them 5 or 6 sticks...have someone drop from front and someone from rear of boat and have a fence....might be fun dunking it evenly though.

Although you can't hardly beat Agrihawg and his kids boo buckets.

Be easy to fish as they would be close if they use it. Look at the time you'd save fishing big brushpiles to find a needle in a haystack Crappie.:Rofl

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Could drill holes in two of them...run pvc through them 5 or 6 sticks...have someone drop from front and someone from rear of boat and have a fence....might be fun dunking it evenly though.

Although you can't hardly beat Agrihawg and his kids boo buckets.

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I see you have been reading my plans. I may have finished it today, but worked at the church. If the weather holds tomorrow, I'll try to get it finished then. It will be interesting, but probably not as good as AgriHawg and company bamboo. I'll explain my thinking once I get it together. The concrete is really slow setting up. I do have a few more traditional buckets to drop.

Here it is.

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Are you going to line them up?? I like it. If you made a few rows of them you could troll up and down them...almost make channels out of them. Could also make fences around points and and edges. Anxious to see and hear how they do.

I've got a private lake that I fish and I took some 10 foot treated 2 x 4's and just shoved them as far in the soupy bottom as I could. I did mine in a line like a fence row and also made a few squares. The fence row look out fishes the rest. I think if you add anything to a lake that supplies a little shade, it will draw fish. The less natural cover the better.

Used to fish up north in a little lake here in Mo called bean lake, the Missouri conversation raised crappie there, lake was loaded with 6=8" crappie, but out in the lake was one piece of 1" metal pipe sticking up in 4' fow, I could catch one 11" to 12" crappie off of it everytime I went out..... so what you have should work, just a timing thing I think........here you on the concrete setting up, for some reason it takes about 3 days for my buckets cement to set up real good, or coffee can weights I pour take about the same time, may be the plastic??

I bet agrihawg could chime in on the cement cure time...and maybe some shortcuts to get it to cure quicker. I would say it is the thickness and the lack of heat.

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The lake was loaded with 6=8" crappie, but out in the lake was one piece of 1" metal pipe sticking up in 4' fow, I could catch one 11" to 12" crappie off of it everytime I went out..... so what you have should work, just a timing thing I think........

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Sounds like Horseshoe Lake in Augusta. The difference is most of the shoreline is COVERED with Cypress and laydowns. But in the summer, those areas are too shallow and don't hold many fish during the day. So the yo-yo fishermen took single stalks of bamboo and shoved them into the mud, which forms a "cane line" straight down the middle of the lake. When the lake is low you can usually pick up one fish off of every second or third one. Not sure why, they just want something to relate to, even if it is a tiny stick.

Mixing too wet or the weather being really cold can affect set up time. Foreign oils & such can really have an affect on set time. Clean your containers before you pour your concrete.

You know I ain't gonna clean those containers. They smell like garlic. The fish I catch off them are pre-seasoned.

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:ThumbsUp A man of SO many ideas!! lol

LOL nice

Found the crappie corral on the sonar one month from the date dropped and here is what it looks like. Also there is a nice bucket of boo not too far from it.

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Here is the "in the yard pic"

Hey RCC question:

In the three graph pics, the hard return just to the left of your "0" line, is that your lower unit causing that or the proximity to the hull?

Looks fishy, but since I can't read a graph worth two cents I'll ask, are there fish on it?

I'm actually not sure what you are calling a hard return. The clouds are the back wash from the trolling motor and they are not there when the big motor is running. The bright strip may be from proximity to the hull, but I don't think it's the lower unit since on further out the beam is not blocked. I've got a little interference from something. It may be the two sonars running at the same time. I think I've cut the trolling motor before to see if that is what it was.

Cool pics Randal!

Nice picture but no fish ????

What I am calling the hard return is the bright yellow line right next to the black surface line, in the middle of your clouds. Is this graph from the unit on your trolling motor or the one on the stern of the boat? As for noise, have you tried a choke on the power line to the unit, i.e. a toroid core? Just wondering, I see the same hard return on my stern mounted unit, but not the clouds. I also have similar shading up close to the boat that is significantly reduced when I trim the big motor up out of the water, but it makes boat control to much of a pain, so I guess I will live with the local shading just to the left of the black surface line, doesn't seem to affect remote objects or anything. Sorry, did that come out right? Think my mind is running about two paragraphs in front of my fingers. Guess I need to learn to type faster.

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I'm actually not sure what you are calling a hard return. The clouds are the back wash from the trolling motor and they are not there when the big motor is running. The bright strip may be from proximity to the hull, but I don't think it's the lower unit since on further out the beam is not blocked. I've got a little interference from something. It may be the two sonars running at the same time. I think I've cut the trolling motor before to see if that is what it was.

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We did catch a few small crappie off of it, but nothing worth writing home about. Wind was blowing like crazy and we were have trouble telling when we got bit. There were better spots.


I don't know what the bright line is.

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Here it is.

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Drop this at Sardis and give me the coordinates. I'll split the crank baits we collect off of it. It definitely looks like a crank catching net!!! :-)

Well, the crappie corral saga continues. It has been underwater for about 14 months. There is still no fish on it, but they are getting closer:Rofl Pics from today.

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Just curious if you dumped wheat or corn or some kinda feed around structure would that attract fish or is it illegal?

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Just curious if you dumped wheat or corn or some kinda feed around structure would that attract fish or is it illegal?

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No need to dump feed. That spot will produce everyday if you can stay on top of it. Not always the biggest ones, but there is always fish within 20feet of the bamboo grid.

When starting new structure bamboo or cedars does it take awhile to get them started on it?

I've got some I've dumped that have never had a fish and also have some that the fish get on almost immediately. I guess it is all about where you drop. I've got a 1/2 dozen pvc buckets that I've only caught fish off of one time, but that one time, it seemed was the only place they were really stacked on. I sure ain't got it figured out. Now, instead of dropping blind. I try to supplement known fish producing areas.

Your original pic looks like a single pole place to me. [emoji12]

The creativity is amazing. [emoji15]

Merry Christmas Gewber!!! [emoji4]

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Your original pic looks like a single pole place to me. [emoji12]

The creativity is amazing. [emoji15]

Merry Christmas Gewber!!! [emoji4]

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It was a single pole when I started so I dropped that. Every couple days, I would go drop a bamboo stick and the crappie would tie it together themselves. The last pic is what they had created when I stopped sending them building material:Rofl

Merry Christmas to you, you boat selling, fish catching, grand kid loving, gewber.:santa

Have had fish marked on dropped "C" trees in March almost before they came to rest...on the 2cnd pass to orientate and then add more cover the fish alarm sounded like a malfunctioning alarm clock...