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PVC vs. Real tree crappie bruch pile #10365255 10/22/14 04:57 PM
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Anyone ever used both? The ones we put in our slip last year are all but rotted out and gone. Was thinking of making some out of PVC this year.


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Re: PVC vs. Real tree crappie bruch pile [Re: marschall] #10365285 10/22/14 05:13 PM
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PVC works great. If I had a slip I would use chain w/ PVC irrigation tubing stuck through the links. Then just hang it from your slip. I made one for a friends slip and he loves it.

Re: PVC vs. Real tree crappie bruch pile [Re: marschall] #10365404 10/22/14 06:16 PM
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You can also take a second bucket condo and shove it into the other to create a taller condo....It will fold the bottom pipes upward on the second condo when you shove it into the bottom one. Add screws to secure the top one to the bottom one.
You can always find good deals on buckets on craigslist and the pvc pipe I get from Lowes. 18 pieces of pvc per bucket. 2' pieces. The whole in the bucket you drill is 5/8 and the pvc pipe is 1/2 inch so it takes elbow grease to get it to go in but it won't be coming out either.
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Re: PVC vs. Real tree crappie bruch pile [Re: marschall] #10365425 10/22/14 06:24 PM
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I made some of these single bucket condos a couple years ago and have been catching fish off of them ever since. I like that it is low profile and does not show up well on other people's graph, even when it has fish on it.

Re: PVC vs. Real tree crappie bruch pile [Re: marschall] #10365660 10/22/14 08:16 PM
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If I ever get to fish again I will find out.

One of my slip neighbors placed 14 xmas trees around his slip in January. He has a 18' x 50' slip so he had the room.

He told me I could fish his slip anytime he is not fishing it.

I placed 4 porcupine fish attractors on my slip last November.

So once I am able to fish again I will be able to see how xmas trees compare to porcupine pvc fish attractors.

I'm hoping that both are winners, as I will be real winner then. roflmao

Re: PVC vs. Real tree crappie bruch pile [Re: marschall] #10366286 10/23/14 01:40 AM
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I have used both in a slip, and it will be a pvc product for me from now on. They both attract fish, but what I like the most about the artificial stuff is you can fish in the middle of it and bring a fish out. And it is easy to get a jig out with out hanging up. And it will be nice not having to replace it every couple years.


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Re: PVC vs. Real tree crappie bruch pile [Re: marschall] #10367673 10/23/14 07:39 PM
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What I thought, I guess we will see soon.Gping down next weekend to put the in the slip. Biggest thing I heard was to sand the pvc so allgie would grow on it.


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Re: PVC vs. Real tree crappie bruch pile [Re: marschall] #10367859 10/23/14 09:40 PM
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maybe try something in a harder wood ?
it sure seems to me wood holds more fish than PVC
but then again it also holds more jigs as well roflmao

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Originally Posted By: Ketchn
maybe try something in a harder wood ?
it sure seems to me wood holds more fish than PVC
but then again it also holds more jigs as well roflmao


Back in the 80's I fished a stake bed at Benbrook that always produced lots of nice crappie.

I can't say much about pvc since I have not been able to fish since I put out my pvc fish attractors.

But I saw a photo recently that showed how to make the wood stake beds. It used two sizes of pvc pipe to make a tool to insert the stakes into the lake bottom. When I get to fish again I am going to make one and place about 40 stakes in the middle of my slip.

Then I will see which attracts more fish, the three pvc fish attractors or the wood stake bed.

Re: PVC vs. Real tree crappie bruch pile [Re: marschall] #10368010 10/23/14 11:15 PM
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This



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2lb and a 2.5lb 15 minute after dropping condo....

I dropped a single bucket condo and 15 minutes later after circling the 23 acre lake these ladies were on stage.


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Re: PVC vs. Real tree crappie bruch pile [Re: marschall] #10368139 10/24/14 12:24 AM
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That is a sweet deal you have going on there David! Just might be a 3 pounder in there...


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Re: PVC vs. Real tree crappie bruch pile [Re: marschall] #10368198 10/24/14 12:51 AM
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Nice!! I just got a couple buckets to make one. Is that a pond near your house?


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Thanks for posting the bucket condo. That is just what I need to do on a small lake that I fish.


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Re: PVC vs. Real tree crappie bruch pile [Re: Sigav8r] #10368492 10/24/14 02:39 AM
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Originally Posted By: TerribleTwos
Nice!! I just got a couple buckets to make one. Is that a pond near your house?


It is private HOA......


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Re: PVC vs. Real tree crappie bruch pile [Re: marschall] #10368501 10/24/14 02:44 AM
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Man, my HOA needs to step it up! I've fished my HOA ponds and mostly caught small catfish.


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