I'm thinking about setting some brush out right after Christmas, I've never done it done I need the 411 on where and how. I'm assuming a concrete block as an anchor and a gallon jug at the top to hold it upright.
Any help out there?
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I'm thinking about setting some brush out right after Christmas, I've never done it done I need the 411 on where and how. I'm assuming a concrete block as an anchor and a gallon jug at the top to hold it upright.
Any help out there?
It really depends on what you are using for brush, christmas trees, bamboo, pvc, etc. A few years ago I helped along with others at High Rock where we cut bamboo and planted about 6-8 stalks in 5 gallon buckets full of quickrete. Turst me they will go staight to the bottom! What do you have in mind?
Where are you planning to do this? I've done a few here and there. I got some limbs now and waiting on help to put them out on Wylie. If I'm off or it's in the evening from my morning shift I'll try to be available.:popcorn
You will need concrete blocks and wire or heavy duty nylon zip ties and if you need bottles I can get those for you free. I use detergent bottles easier to tie on. May can help out on some blocks too!:cheers2
Turkeyfoot, I'm thinking bring crappie in to the brush.
Bigdwagg I'd be willing to help after the holiday I should be available most days
If your collecting Christmas trees get the biggest you can get. Smaller ones use up your blocks and you get less brush area!
I may can help the week after Christmas . Got the kid coming in that week and she may love to help put out homeless crappie houses.
Just had a thought instead of concrete blocks use those concrete forms, you cut the 12" diameter form 6-8" tall fill with secrete, altho the concrete blocks would be cheaper.
Maybe stick the tree in one hole fill both with concrete
What material are you planning to use for brush? If Christmas trees, a block on the bottom and a jug on the top.
Stump that was my thinking, Never done it before so I'm open for suggestions
Dont use copper wire it will rust out and I use 2 blocks per tree and the jug don't matter ive cought fish without jugs on them the fish dont care if it laying down or standing up that's just to satisfy the fishermen
Scooperdude Let me know if you need help making or dropping brush. Check your PM.
YeahQuote:
Originally Posted by BigDawgg
Where am yens plannen to due it?
I can bee a helpur with mhi GPS!
Brett, what took so long? I was thinking the same thing. Everybody offering to help. Sounds like everyone wants the locations of new fishing locations. Lol.
It helps to have a lot of brush around. Y'all would be able to take one of the coves and make a great place that holds crappie. Start out in the 25' depth and make piles up into the shallow water. Set them on the flats beside the channels. A lot of fish will spawn in the 10' depth because of the temp changes we have been having the last few years. Anything will work, even just a limb because the crappie just need to have cover to hide in.
Sounds like I'll have do background checks and full body search before leaving the dock
How does copper rust?Quote:
Originally Posted by cutbait
I was trying to be nice cause it's Christmas!Quote:
Originally Posted by REELDAWG
My reputation here has taken a hit and I was hoping another jack axx would step up😀
This is just my opinion and what I've learned over the years, fwiw. I have had much more success with other hardwoods and bamboo. I have caught fish on firs, but the disadvantage is the limbs are very close together and the time it takes to draw in zooplankton. With bamboo, I have caught fish within a few days time. It's also easier to handle and easier to make a larger pile with. It's light and you can cinch it down with twine and when you drop it, cut the twine and let it expand outwards. Just my .02
I've never seen cooper rust.
I agree somewhat with Burdawg, much more success using hardwoods more so than firs. Never used bamboo as my succeeds rates can't be much better than what I've been using. In my opinion, location and proper depth is far more important than tree type. The depths of 15 to 20 feet are by far the best in most all bodies of water the majority of the time in SC. Deeper is better sometimes, shallower others it only during small windows during the year
Hardwood is the best but the Christmas trees are free and easy to get this time of year. I'd rather see them in the river than burned in a bond fire each year around here anyways. I don't have any trees on my property and the ones I got now came from a guy who is clear cutting scrub oaks on his place. So some of it will rest in a cove some where on Wylie for sure. Who ever helps will know a hot spot before it is found by Brett. LOL :Rofl:popcorn
Might not want to do this because of the labor, but what I have done is take the Christmas trees and using pruning shears thinned out the limbs to open them up and put the limbs in buckets by themselfs, drop them next to the trees.
If you build it, they will come.
I second the other responses about hardwoods and bamboo being the best brush. We sank about 40 Christmas trees a few years back and made several nice size piles in high traffic areas for fish (river ledges, creek mouths, points, ect.) I can't help but think the fish didn't pass through the areas, but I can tell you that I had very very very little success on those piles. I even did as cray suggested and thinned them out.
I sank a oak limb on one of the spots the following year and it started producing.
The Christmas trees also made a huge mess of my boat!! Much more than hardwood or boo!
The only firs that I've caught fish on were in Hartwell. I had limited success but I did find fish on some piles a hand full of times.
As far as depth goes I wouldn't place any in 15 ft or less water, mostly because you don't fish that shallow often, also if the lake got low it can cause a hazard. I've placed brush mostly in 25ish ft depths and even placed in 35-40 ft depths.
MY DRONES ARE EVERYWHERE!Quote:
Originally Posted by BigDawgg
Watching Oldfish getting skunked,
CK tossing in nets,
BigLog dropping in new battery cables
AND
FRESH BRUSH PILES BEING LOADED
HAHAHAHA
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That's why I put a top on my toon so you can't see what I'm doing
This is how I did mine last year. Would be willing to help!!!!!
That looks pretty good.
That does look really good
If youre going to use sakrete, keep checking by Lowes and Home depot for their broken bags. They almost give them away, may be different types of concrete but it dont matter.
You can also use the bigger parts of limbs to make good piles. cut the 3 to 5'' around limbs to 4 or 5' tall and use a block. Put a limb in each cell and pour it full of sakrete. They will look like tree trunks once put out and the limbs with y's works out great.
I couldn't get an individual picture to post but scroll down this link and you can see the bamboo condos we built and dropped in High Rock and Tuckertown a few years ago.
http://www.crappie.com/crappie/north...revised-8.html
turkey foot that is a great idea.We should try one and see.
I'm all for it. Would everyone interested want to try a group project?
I'll try to help as much as I can. I am going to ask the man I got some brush from when he is cutting more tress down. We may have to get them as soon as he cuts them out of his way and go straight to the river. I'll start keeping blocks that people throw away and some rubber coated wire that is flexible to tie with. If I get anymore 50 gal drums I'll get those to and cut them in half and make a pvc brush too!:popcorn
I'd like to grow Bamboo but just takes over everything
Bamboo condos look great
If I remember right we had about 130 5 gallon buckets. I have no idea how many bags of quickrete were used but it was more than originally planned.
One of the guys got the OK from Alcoa(which controls the lakes of the Yadkin chain) and presented the plan of bamboo in 5 gallon buckets and they said ok but with a couple simple requests. Another member had a field nearby High Rock where we built the condos and not far down the road somebody had a patch of bamboo we could get all we wanted. Myself and 2 or 3 others brought trailers and made a couple trips to cut bamboo and we had a big turnout of people to build all in 1 day what we thought would take 2 maybe 3 days. The biggest help was somebody brought a concrete mixer. We gave GPS coordinates where we would like to have brush and we dropped 4 condos in one spot. Alcoa requested we wait 30 days from the time we built to drop day to let the concrete cure. Just before we loaded the condos to go to the lake we used baling twine to wrap around the bamboo to save room and the twine was cut just before we dropped it in. I never thought my Carolina Skiff 1765DLX would hold 4 condos but it did very well! If a boat did not have GPS a smaller boat with GPS would throw a marker bouy over the target area and condos would be dropped. We did this in the early months before boat traffic picked up so not many people saw where these went plus it wasn't too hot so we didn't burn up! In fact the first planned drop day when we would have had plenty of boats, it snowed the night before so it was called off. I would suggest if there were a project to do this now is the time.
Scroll down these links and there are pictures from when we dropped the brush
http://www.crappie.com/crappie/north...evised-16.html
http://www.crappie.com/crappie/north...evised-17.html