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This post is for all the rookies like me trying to make crappie hotels.
Tried to place these pallets yesterday. 1 CMU block per pallet is NOT enough weight for them to sink. It was a disaster. Haha.
I’m guessing I needed at least 2 block per pallet.
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Try it and see...dunno
Two options. Add more concrete OR remove more wood! Good luck sir!
Once sunk into place those look like they would do a good job
Don't forget to put your name on them so that anyone that snags one can return it to you.:yikes
Ketchn may have some suggestions as well.
Bob
We will see how it works. My pvc brush hasn’t produced many fish, my real tree brush piles tend to cause lots of hang ups. I’m hoping my small jigs won’t snag as easy on these like they will on a tree branch.Quote:
Originally Posted by MCG1
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I’ve heard of people mixing hard wood in with PVC structure. The wood helps attract fish faster and more until established and the PVC has the longevity. There are some other threads with examples here. Also really rough up the PVC first to help algae attach and grow faster.
A lot of the docks I fish have Christmas tree under them. Stacked full. Those things will grab a jig quickQuote:
Originally Posted by MCG1
I like the use of natural bamboo like guys around Mississippi use,,,
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When you figure this out post the solution. Man, I know some holes in the Marsh that a pallet hotel would pay off Big Time!
Under some of these docks also. You get hung up unfer there anyway
Pallets take A LOT Of Weight!!!!
Green (fresh cut) wood sinks the best. Christmas trees are easy but don't last long.
If it doesn't come down to too expensive to deal with it, I'd opt for as many blocks as I could get on there & still be able to handle lifting them. The one most positive factor in them being extra "heavy" (from the block weight) is that the "condo" is more likely to stay in place.
If you get tired of losing jigs to wood cover ... try weedless jigheads. I've been using them for decades and have not, as of yet, seen any negative reaction by the fish, suffered lost fish after hookset, or missed fish on hookset.
The jigs I manage to lose now is usually from the line getting between the cross members and the piling. That results in a breakoff most of the time
That's when I usually do my little "bow to the jig" maneuver .... and try and hop the jig over it. :ThumbsUpQuote:
Originally Posted by DockShootinJack
That works well to get it over the cross member. Getting the line down between the 2 pieces of wood pretty much gets ya. Sometimes you can reach the rod past and work the line back outQuote:
Originally Posted by CrappiePappy
I did the same thing…took 6 scavenged cinder blocks to try to sink 2 pallet/cedar hotels and they floated until I managed to find a pile of concrete someone discarded in the ditch next to the borrow pit I was sinking the structure in. Took several large chunks per hotel to finally get them to sink. Next time I will take more than enuff weight and an extra hand to place the structures. Hope yours pay off for you.
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What he said. Pallets are built normally from kiln dried wood, takes a lot to sink. It can be done, but need to remove as many boards as possible. It works much better to get green sawmill wood and build your own pallet beds. I have four blocks on this 4’x4’ because that was going out in the current. Two older, heavier blocks will sink a bed made from green wood like that fine if it’s not going out in the current.Attachment 413979Quote:
Originally Posted by keeferfish
That is a good looking stake bed