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I fish a 3 acre pond. Bass, gills, and crappie are present. The banks are steep drops. Cattails and weed beds extend 25 ft from the bank in 12-15 fow. Then no structure at all except for the occasional hump. Most of the water past the weeds is 20-40 fow. I placed cedar piles in 20 fow just past the weeds to draw some fish out of the weeds and to the brush. Nada, nothing. No fish of any kind. The mystery is WHY?
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how long have they been their?
Put them in 2 years ago
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That is odd. Must be something they don't like
possibly too deep ? too much adjacent weed cover ? are there springs in the body of water ?
Springs=no
too much weed cover=good point, maybe
too deep = would not think so since crappie can be caught as deep as 30 feet. The piles are 6-8 ft tall into the water column. :dono
It's hard to know sometimes why crappie will select the structure they hang out at. In one of my old slips I had two porcupine fish attractors placed 4' apart from each other along the back of my slip, both resting on the bottom of the lake. They were build on the same day, using the same materials. Both had the pvc pipe sanded before being inserted in the ball. One was always loaded with crappie while the one never had any crappie on it when I looked at them with my fish finder.
I thought them identical but the crappie disagreed with me. :)
They can be fickle about thingsQuote:
Originally Posted by ezgoing
Got that right guys
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I think that I will try 2 more piles at completely different areas. First area will be a location with 50% smaller weed bed. Second will be at the edge of a real sharp drop off. Might as well try something.
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maybe an oxygen problem at that depth, [ lack of ] ?
Possibly. Thats a new idea
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Crappie sometimes don't congregate in likely area's, so you have to find where they are most of the time. I got a brush and never caught a fish off of it. Fifty feet away and bam they hang out in a oak brush I have. Location is your key! Hope you find their hiding spots. Nothing wrong with Cedar, Ba Boo, Oak and Willows. I have PVC piles and they hold fish from time to time. Just don't put them to close to one another. You get more numbers one than you will on 3 or 4. Good luck.:highfive