The year has been a BUST for me this year. I generally have a winter supply of crappie in the freezer by this time, but this year I didn't get to fish at all. Now that's tragic for a retired person that lives on a lake. The reasons are many, but the main reason is that I'm building a new house near Teague Texas.

Before I move away from the lake I plan on sinking several Brush piles here on R/C lake. In the past I sank cedar trees. But this year I located several locations of bamboo and will probably use this materal.

Have you people who have used Bamboo brush piles been satisfied with the results?

Thankyou Steve

We mainly use Bamboo, and doing pretty good with it. We didn't start setting pile until Post Spawn, so the crappie didn't get a chance to find our pile as they moved up after last winter. But we did catch fish on them through the summer and fall.

We are working on setting 20-25 through the winter, hoping that they will be found as the fish move up this year to spwn, and fall back to them after the spawn. We'll see if our thinking is correct.

One important thing is get a good GPS mark on them. After the leaves fall off, they get extremely tough to find. They go from a bold structure color on the sonar, to just a light looking shadow. We like this, due to we have nevere found anyone fishing the 20 bamboo structures we have out. It would take an experience fishman to locate them, moving slow. But with the SI, that will probably change. I would imagine that to a SI, they will GLOW like a Diamond In A Goat's @$$.

We like the Bamboo, but do use tree limbs also, when prunning tree around the house, and piling up browny point with our wifes for the fishing season. keith

Another smart man moves to gods country.I live on the south side of Teague on Fm 80 come by sometime.One thing about bamboo piles those fish become stunted if not harvested regularly.I would be happy to monitor the piles for you and report back thats just the kind of guy I am.LOL Darrell

What a guy!

You can count on Big D to step up to the plate when another Crappieman is in need....
Darrell dont forget I also have a sidescan... (If you need assistance).....

I have put out large bamboo condos in the past and they are still producing.
My buddy Paul has a lot of large Boo and started making
"Boo Balls".
They are very easy to handle and make an
excellent BP. Great design.
We have had fish move in on them within a week.
You do get a lot of attention with them in the truck and
in the boat. We've been lucky and not been stalked each time
we set them out.
http://texasfishingforum.com/forums/ubbt...con#Post5468719

If you were catchin fish on your stuff you would be postin pics .You aint catchin carp on them.There I said it.Post a pic tommarrow and prove me wrong.LOL Darrell

Dang Bigmack can even get you rilled up?? Going to be a long winter on the forum if we dont get some carp stirred up.Ha I guess you boys need to drown some minners and slow troll and post some pics.Darrell

I hear ya. It's been boring in here for a while now.
Thank goodness Plano Marine is throwing us a tourney this
weekend.

I'm off all next week, just in time for an artic front to blow in.

BigMack thanks for the BooBall idea, I've never seen that design before, I'm going to build several and use them in combination with some cement bucket Boo that I already have started. I know one thing, those 5gal buckets of cement and boo aren't exactly easy to handle as I thought they would be, and don't even try placeing them in the wind.....

Dwmoor, I'm sure you and I will get together here in the near future as it seems that both of us are pretty hung up on fishing crappie. I will soon be living about two miles out of Teague on North 80 by the airport. It seems that my wife won the location battle to live near our 6 grandchildren that all live in and around Teague. I would like to get to know more about Limestone.

Thanks all for the replies.
Steve

We plan on sunking 8-10 over the Thanksgiving Holiday. The first 10 of 20 we plan on sinking will be hitting the bottom during the holiday, tryin to work off some Turkey & Dressing...

Hopefully 20 of these babies will let us boat a few more crappie in the Spring.



keith