after you have drop your structure do any one every drop bait or anything like that with there structure
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after you have drop your structure do any one every drop bait or anything like that with there structure
I've never dropped any bait with mine.
Don't have to. Your 'structure' will be a magnet to the smaller, which will be a target for the crappie.
Once, many years ago, I found out three weeks in advance my mother-in-law was coming for a Sunday visit and she wanted to fish. So, I went to a comfortable place on the bank (she wouldn't get in a boat), launched my boat and went to a clump of visible brush within casting distance of the bank. There I took three mesh potato sacks full of left overs from the mess hall at my guard unit after drill. I weighted them down with rocks and tossed them down into the brush.
My father-in-law said, "I'll clean ever damn fish she catches." I'm tellin' you...the ole man cleaned fish for HOURS!! I just loved it. She slayed the bream and crappie.
aj
If you want to put bait on your attractors, try cotton seed meal in a burlap sack. Then get your knife really sharp because you will need it.
Use two onion (or orange) sacks, one stuffed inside the other. Fill them with alphalfa cubes and sink them in your brush. It takes quite a bit of weight because the alphalfa cubes are very bouyant. I have done this around my pvc trees and found that they attract lots and lots of bait fish, which in turn attract the crappie. Trust me, it works.
cotton seed is this the same cotton seed you use to sweet your cows upQuote:
Originally Posted by slider1
are you talking about a whole square bale alphalfa this is hay we are talking about rightQuote:
Originally Posted by pvcnut
My parents neighbor was talking to me the other day about catching crappie off of a single bale of alfalfa. He said he would catch them really well until the sun got up and the fish went to cover.
I was skeptical, but if you guys are saying the alfalfa cubes work I will entertain that there is some truth to the story.
We used to sink bales of hay in Greers Ferry, and it worked well.
Dog food seems to work pretty good.
Alfalfa works great. But it takes a tremendous amount of weight to get a whole bale to sink. The alfalfa cubes in the onion sacks is the way to go.
never seem to need bait. mine do quite well without it.
Man I am learning some tricks in this crappie structure piece of crappie.com. This is my first visit over here. I need to try some of this stuff as I am having some trees and stuff cut out of the yard now.
Where is the best place to find those alfalfa cubes?
...just sit back and query the archives. Jerry did an outstanding piece on crappie condos that is a 'must read.' He also authored an article about how to get the most from your fish finder.Quote:
Originally Posted by JigMaster
aj
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Originally Posted by pvcnut
Use two onion (or orange) sacks, one stuffed inside the other. Fill them with alphalfa cubes and sink them in your brush. It takes quite a bit of weight because the alphalfa cubes are very bouyant. I have done this around my pvc trees and found that they attract lots and lots of bait fish, which in turn attract the crappie. Trust me, it works.
are you talking about a whole square bale alphalfa this is hay we are talking about right
04-29-2009 08:58 AM
He's talking about cattle cubes!
How about rabbit food then? It has a high alfalfa content and comes in small pellets. I would think a bunch of those in a burlap sack would work too. Make up a bunch of sacks and go around dropping them at various structure points.
Mike
I sink cotton-seed range cubes picked up from feed store.It tends to attrach fish fast but usualy smaller pearch respond better.
I put out sweet feed at times ,but in warm weather draws lots of whiskers.
Ragfly,
I get my alfalfa cubes at a hardware/feed store. About 10 bucks for fifty pound bag.
No bait for me but after I dropped Saturday evening I had people come over and mark the spots (while I was still there dropping). I started just slightly before dark but after this happened we waited until it was completely dark out to finish. I know there is nothing that can be done about it but I would at least had enough respect to remember where someone dropped and come back the next day to find it :rolleyes::D
It's amazing how little shame some people have.
My only comment to this is be careful! Don't use this method if you have a small lake or pond. Hay oxidizes the water, which in turn suffocates fish...just my observation on our place...but like I said, small lake or pond.Quote:
Originally Posted by blairarnold
What did you use to sink them? How much wieght? Also do you have to add more twine to keep it together or will the 2 pieces it's bailed with work?Quote:
Originally Posted by blairarnold
We tied a few cinderblocks on the bales to sink them. As to the twine on them, it depends on how tight it is. Some bales are tied as solid as can be, some are very loose and some are somewhere in between. If in doubt tie them some more.
I have never done it but a guy I work with puts out range cubes on his brush piles, he said it works great.