has anyone made some pvc brush piles to sink in the lakes. I have seen them at bass pro, and they look easy to make. My questions are 1 why is it ok to throw a bunch of plastic/pvc into the lake? Isnt that basically controlled littering. 2 how deep do you normally put yours, i was thinking about 25' of water and spacing a few within 10' or so of each other to make more of an area to fish. 3 Would it be a good idea to put multiple depths to try to target all times of the year?

looking for what people have done with theres

Lots of brush/ condo Dunkers on here that know more than me....I'm sure they will chime in..

I have several to put out this Winter. We will be looking to put these out during Dec, Jan, and Feb. I figure we will be looking to put them in deep water, as we have a lot of shallow brush piles (7'-15'). Our deep brush piles will be in 20'-25', but no deeper. Our natural and PVC piles are 4'-7' tall, according to if they are natural or PVC.

We find that we have more crappie hanging around the top of the pile during the summer months. So if it is in 20' of water, standing 5' of the bottom, we are still able to fish in 15' of water. This has been plenty deep during the hot summer months.

We will be putting 3-4 of the PVC Piles in each location. The structures are 4' high, and 5' long. They will lay on the bottom Horizonal like seen in the PIC.








keith

PVC is an inert material so no toxic chemicals should leach into the water from PVC. It makes good fish habitat and improves the fishery.

How tall are you planning to make them? 25' is most likely too deep. It would hold fish in the winter but would likely be void the rest of the year. I would set them about 10' - 20' deep.

Your idea of spacing them about 10' apart covering different depths has merit. I do this with brush as it gives a little bigger area for fish. With PVC you want to cluster them, by cluster I mean put several together for density. Then, put several more about 4-10' away.

Hope this helps.

CCK, those are sweet! thanks for the awesome and simple idea!

I have some PVC that I could use to make some like those!

I would need a bigger boat to get them there!

BigDozer66

We use a 2 Liter Bottle filled with cement on each end of the structure holds them down with no problems. We have found that if you anchor with 1 weight in the middle of the strucutre, SOMETIMES they stand on there ends, due to not sinking correctly.



It is pretty easy to get them out, they just stick INTO each other, I can get 3-4 in my boat, and that is enough for us to do 1 location. We will haul 10-12 of them out to the lake in the boat and back of the truck, then just make 2-3 trips back to the truck, while putting out 3-4 in a location.


keith

You guys pay CLOSE attention to CCK as he IS the "CAPTAIN OF CRAPPIE CONDO'S"

those are some sweet ideas, i have plenty of pvc i demo out on a weekly basis. thanks for all the ideas

question how do you avoid not hooking them??? and im also a huge catfisher and what if a bass crappie cat or anything got tangeled up in them then wat

PVC pipe is very smooth and "ROUND". Unless you just happen to get a jig into the tiny space where 2 pipe intersect (chances of that happening are slim to none), you're not likely to ever hang up in a PVC condo. Even if you wrap your line around a "branch" and it ties a half-hitch, still you'll probably pull till you rotate the condo abit and the wrapped line will likely slip off the end of the pipe.

trees are "ROUND" to (but i get it) also cck whats those blue middels on your tree

Crappie usually hang around the top half of a structure, unless they are holding tight to the cover for some reason, like Barometric Pressure, or some kind of weather pattern. So when you get a hook up, I feel we move ther fish about a foot before they start fighting , unless it is a big'un. So the are basically out of the the structure before they have much of a chance to hang you up.

Not being a catfish guy, I would figure catfish would be in and around the lower part of the tree, so it might be a little more problem. Not sure on that, we do catch a catfish or two out of our structures every so often, but not alot.

Like Pepop said, the PVC is round and hard so it doesn'y lend to hanging you jig up, they jus slide right off. But I figure you were talking about AFTER you hang (catch) the fish. We use to make some heck of a Brush Piles (20'-30' in diameter X 8'-10' tall) but had the exact problem you are talking about. Hard to get your jig into a pile that big without hanging up, and when/if you did catch one, you couldn't get him out. We make our Bamboo Piles out of 5 pieces of Boo about 6' long, in a bucket with there branches left on them. They make about a 8'-10' diameter, standing 5'-6' tall. Then we throw 3 out at a location. Now we're not hanging up while fishing, or getting fish out of them. We have figure out it doesn't take a LOT of brush to be a good spot. The thing is finding a GOOD spot for the location.



keith

thanks cck but what did you use for the blue middels in the pictures

thanks cck but what did you use for the blue middels in the pictures