Building more pallet stake beds.

Now just need to add rocks and no wind to sink them.

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Nice

does anyone know about how long these will last?

If they stay submerged made of cedar or hardwood will last for years if you used good nails or screws. Most wood rots very slowly if not exposed to the air. There are solid stumps in this lake from trees cut before 1942 ! I fish driven stakebeds that are close to 20 years old and pallet stakebeds that are almost 10 years old. Stainless or galvinized nails or screws will make them hold togather longer as will thicker diameter nails.
. Regular nails will rust into faster in some waters than others. I have sunk hundreds of them over last 10 years.

There's going to be some good eatin there in a few months.......nice looking

Keep up the good work, sir !

Those look great

Well looks like you will have more time to build some more with all this rain

How do you get yours off the boat and into the water and sitting upright? We had a row of conveyor rollers on the front of a work boat. Took 2 of us to shove it off evenly. With the front of the bed going into the water 1st, we had more weight on the backend so it would catch up while going down in deeper water. 8' x8' beds, with 5 rows of basicly 1x4's, 7 boards to a row. Caught a lot of fish off those. We would get used concrete blocks that had mortar in them, clean 1 hole out and slide the empty hole over 1 of the vertical stakes. 3 blocks in the front and 4 on the back. Lot of work but was worth it. Did about 700 of them.

Use rocks in corners between top and bottom pallet boards and just slide over the side. Helps to push down on high side to level em out as they go over.. The short ones I make out of pallets will flip if you put blocks on top.

Tell me a little bit about where you are placing these. What kind of depth? Main Lake? Coves? I have access to pallets and would like to make some.
Any info you could share about your experience would be great!

Thanks,
Brandon

We put them on drop offs , humps, flats , or any place you would place a brushpile.

Droped my first pallets last week at lake martin al. It required a little more weight than i would have though to sink lol.

They look good

happy fishing