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Help a new guy understand how to use brush piles #8973322 05/26/13 06:33 PM
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New guy here!

I was hoping someone could help me understand the best place to utilize and use brush piles for crappie. I have cut a ton of bamboo and I was wanting to start building brush piles for myself. I know I'm late this year, but I was wondering where the best places are in a lake like Sam Rayburn to put them. I was planning on using the concrete/bucket type of "condo" as people call them. Are coves the best place or should it be set somewhere out in the open water such as the area around the 147 bridge? How do I make sure they do not move or shift?


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#1 Bamboo is good... but there is a lot of stuff that's better try to make your brush piles out of hardwood type trimmings (they will last long and attract more fish, its perfect to sink em with the leaves still on)

#2 crappie wont necessarily come to a brush pile just because you put it there.. you need to find a spot that's already holding some fish.... and then add brush piles there to create better habitat. creek edges near dropoff in 12-20ft of water are good places to look.

#3 try and set out brushpiles in a variety of depths and locations. If you put all your eggs in one basket......well you know the rest of the story.

#4 when your out fishing your brushpiles dont fish one for a long time unless you are steady catching fish. Even with brush piles locations often only hold 2-3 fish that are "willing" to bite. your better off to keep moving to other brushpiles and picking up the 2-3 that want to eat, and then running into the brushpile that they are all hungry at.

#5 Try and build your brush piles so that they will stand up straight (it help to put an empty soda bottle tied to the branches in there) remember all lakes have some current. so use some of the bigger bamboo stakes to make an X at the bottom of the pot so it can stand up straight.

#6 dont be stingy with your brushpiles. if you found a likely looking spot that is currently holding some fish get at least 4-5 pots down there. (i know it's a boatload of work but it will pay off for you bigtime)

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here is a pic of some one's i put out before christmastime that i made from magnolia tree trimmings.

notice the bamboo x's at the base to help hold em up.

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nice bruch


Re: Help a new guy understand how to use brush piles [Re: AceArcher] #8973558 05/26/13 08:44 PM
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Originally Posted By: AceArcher
#1 Bamboo is good... but there is a lot of stuff that's better try to make your brush piles out of hardwood type trimmings (they will last long and attract more fish, its perfect to sink em with the leaves still on)

#2 crappie wont necessarily come to a brush pile just because you put it there.. you need to find a spot that's already holding some fish.... and then add brush piles there to create better habitat. creek edges near dropoff in 12-20ft of water are good places to look.

#3 try and set out brushpiles in a variety of depths and locations. If you put all your eggs in one basket......well you know the rest of the story.

#4 when your out fishing your brushpiles dont fish one for a long time unless you are steady catching fish. Even with brush piles locations often only hold 2-3 fish that are "willing" to bite. your better off to keep moving to other brushpiles and picking up the 2-3 that want to eat, and then running into the brushpile that they are all hungry at.

#5 Try and build your brush piles so that they will stand up straight (it help to put an empty soda bottle tied to the branches in there) remember all lakes have some current. so use some of the bigger bamboo stakes to make an X at the bottom of the pot so it can stand up straight.

#6 dont be stingy with your brushpiles. if you found a likely looking spot that is currently holding some fish get at least 4-5 pots down there. (i know it's a boatload of work but it will pay off for you bigtime)


Awesome info. Thank you!


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Gcn welcome to tff.
There's a unwritten rule here when you place your piles gotta tell us where so we can check the quality standards sarcastic


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welcome to the forum!!!! what part of the big thicket??? i am located in rye......


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Great advice! Welcome to the TFF.

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Welcome to TFF!!!


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I'm in the Woodpile.


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welcome awl .....
ace archer that sum good advice brother ....
best of luck to yawl ....

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Ace Archer had some great info...Keith Speers has done a video on the 5 gallon bucket condos and shallow water type structure, good stuff too...PM Keith, he will tell you how to view it/them. Cream Creek Kennels does some COOL condo logs...and Doyle Holman does some good bamboo condo buckets, as well.

Welcome to the Forum... welcome

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welcome to the forum bubba, im fairly new here as well, i dont know what im doing yet but these guys are slowly whipping me into shape. i live not far from the 103 bridge on rayburn, wish you the best of luck and hope to see ya out on the water someday.


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