in my opinion NO BUENO... most times, the only thing that holds fish on those is the bucket they are in. my advise would be to put out FRESH cedar or oak limbs with plenty of VEE sections in them,. lots of secondary branches, and put them out laying horizontally , and stack them. try to put them in an area where the depth changes quickly, like from 13 to 18 feet. this will last years!!
for some reason fresh , live brush put out in the right areas will always be better than dead sticks. not sure if the resin in the trees attracts baitfish, or the carbon dioxide bubbles it gives off when decaying, or what, but they will come to fresh stuff very quickly.
I would stay away from hackberry and willow. all those little leaves on willow will fall off in 4 days. use bulky , thick tree limbs .
if u decide not to use hardwood tree limbs, you may as well just fill some buckets with cement, and go sink them in groups.

I’ve put 5 out on Fork and I bet I have $250 in jigs hung in them over the last couple of years.
Lol . 0/5 stars would not recommend. Fish get in them but no thanks

95 percent of what folks are putting out is not real bamboo, its river cane,.

Bamboo is much more solid and the canes we used were about 3" in diameter. They last a long time and we even used a chain saw to cut them down.


You can find this junk everywhere. It is along side of roads, creeks and ditches. It doesn't last anytime at all. You can cut it with loppers. It grows a single plume on top
and has leaves that grow on the shaft. I tried to use it in my garden and it never lasted one year. I now have bamboo in my garden and have been using the same
canes for 4 years now.
Lots of times people have real bamboo that they planted for a yard break and it gets out of hand. You can generally get it for free. There are two types of bamboo, running and
bunching. The running type gets out of control real quick and it is very hard to kill once it does.