A question for river fisherman NWR

[Flatwater]

Have you ever sunk any wood? Christmas trees? Stakes, red cedar, What I want to know is did it stay in place or did the current sweep it away? How much concrete do you think it will take to hold an 8 foot bamboo top in place? I know 30# does fine in a lake. I saw someone put out 5 gallon pails full of dirt, the river current sweep them away in no time.

[Chasing Ghosts]

The dirt would have washed out of the buckets in the current, and the pails along with it.

[Percidae_Papermouth]

I used cinderblocks...cut the center out with a quicky saw and put my tree in it and filled the center with concrete....let it cure for 2 weeks i believe it was close to 55-60 lbs. I did another with a 30 gallon pot a couple pieces of brush and filled it with concrete this one was beast probably 175-200 lbs but im still catching fish off of it. This was at the BWR not NWR.

[Ranger690]

Try an open, hardwood like tree. The less canopy to catch current. Make yourself some cheap rebar wreck anchors to hold the trunk in place. Wreck anchors hold well and just dig deeper as current flows.

[crappiefarmer]

Try an open, hardwood like tree. The less canopy to catch current. Make yourself some cheap rebar wreck anchors to hold the trunk in place. Wreck anchors hold well and just dig deeper as current flows.

Got a pic of some kind of the type anchor Your talking about Dayton?CF

[crappiefarmer]

I have used buckets full of concrete, cinder blocks filled with concrete, 40, 60 , 80 pounds. They all moved. This is not on the NW but on rivers with the exact same type current. The only thing I found that worked was to drive a 10' piece of 2 inch pvc pipe 5' into the bottom and then drop limbs over the pipes with bricks attached and run a piece of wire across a couple of main branches so they would hoop around the pvc poles. This will hold up in the current and they are known down here as pole hurdles. They are also illegal according to some game wardens. I have put them in in the past and do it real quick like and also never put them in an area where someone was water skiing. I would find a hole that ran up real close to the bank where the skiers would not be. Never in the main channel where they could fall and hit one. That is why they were outlawed down here. Some dummy put one out and a skier hit it.

I still put them out from time to time and they work good. Just wish I could find a better way.CF

[jim.b]

i have sunk brush piles in n/w river and found that they will move around with all the in and out of the wind current. the last one i sank was so big it took 10 cinder blocks to sink it and it lasted about three years. some i have sank moved and i could never find them. i make mine from cedar branches from along the river banks and that way all i bring is a saw rope and blocks. i plan on trying to make some out of p.v.c. for the lakes.

[jim.b]

i almost forget. the best time to sink brush is when the weather is nasty and nobody is out. then you have them to yourself till george finds them with his side scan.

[Corker]

the best time to sink brush is when the weather is nasty and nobody is out.

If you're cutting brush off the bank, nothing beats a pea soup fog.

[Ranger690]

This shows the no weld method. These homemade buggers hold good sized boats in the ripping current of the James. You can heat the bar to add more curve to the spikes. There are some really good ones if you happen to weld too.

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