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Has anyone had experience sinking Christmas trees for world smallmouth bass creating structure for bass or crappie?

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Has anyone had experience sinking Christmas trees for creating structure for bass or crappie?

A few years ago the Wisconsin DNR sank several Pine trees in a local lake that had been cleared to make a new camping area. From all that i saw fishing this lake after they did that the fishing improved and the Bass,world smallmouth bass Crappie, and Gills seemed to love this new structure. Midwest Outdoor several years ago ran an article on sinking Xmas trees for structure saying it was very effective.world smallmouth bass- Unauthorized users of my Email box WILL be billed accordingly for the usage.

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Has anyone had experience sinking Christmas trees for creating structure for bass or crappie? Prost! Gene A few years ago the Wisconsin DNR sank several Pine trees in a local lake that had been cleared to make a new camping area. From all that i saw fishing this lake after they did that the fishing improved and the Bass, Crappie, and Gills seemed to love this new structure. Midwest Outdoor several years ago ran an article on sinking Xmas trees for structure saying it was very effective. world smallmouth bass– Unauthorized users of my Email box WILL be billed accordingly for the usage.

It depends on the area and water temperature of the lake.  Here in South Florida pine trees deteriorate and disappear within 6 months so they don’t do much good.  I dropped a few into our lake for habitat improvement and could spot them on the fishfinder for a few months, then they just disappeared.  Florida Game and Freshwater Fish Commission confirms this advice.world smallmouth bass  Now we use hardwoods, such as sections of citrus or black olive.

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Has anyone had experience sinking Christmas trees for creating structure for bass or crappie?  Yeah, nothing better. Tie a gang of them together wirth some bricks to

hold them aand come back next year. You will c lean up if you havent told every body where you did it.          Al

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Has anyone had experience sinking Christmas trees for creating structure for bass or crappie?

Christmas trees work better for protecting small baitfish and gamefish fry but for fishing structure, something like a willow tree will do better. You wont hang up near as much. And with the limbs being farther apart, it allows the crappie and bass room to get in there to hide. http://members.aol.com/swaters1/index.html

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for fishing structure, something like a willow tree will do better. You wont hang up near as much. And with the limbs being farther apart, it allows the crappie and bass room to get in there to hide.

Here’s a better idea and one that lasts much, much longer. Find a roll of the plastic snow fence material (sometimes you can get this used from a contractor), cut about ten feet and staple it in a circle, insert an X made of 2×2 or 2×4s to keep it’s shape, using poly rope install a plastic bleach bottle for the right flotation to keep it upright and bricks or building block for anchor. The poly rope length can be used to suspend the height of the “crappie condo”. This baby will last for several years. There’s a lot less hangups also.

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Gene, a friend of mine has.  He says that he has had great results.  He did it specifically for crappie or “sac a lait”.  The trick is remembering where you sunk the trees.  If you need any more info, post and I’ll get back to you. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Has anyone had experience sinking Christmas trees for creating structure for bass or crappie? Prost! Gene

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Gene, a friend of mine has.  He says that he has had great results.  He did it specifically for crappie or “sac a lait”.  The trick is remembering where you sunk the trees.  If you need any more info, post and I’ll get back to you. Has anyone had experience sinking Christmas trees for creating structure for bass or crappie? Prost! Gene

Our local DNR doesn’t encourage this practice.  They define it as building a “fish attractant” rather than “habitat”.  In our lake we sink fish “cribs”–3-6 inch diameter oak logs 8 ft long held together with rebar in roughly the shape of a 6 ft cube.  These are then filled with X’mas trees/brush, closed off at the top and sunk in 14-18 ft of water. Last winter we sank 39 in about 1 square block of water.  (There are hundreds more in our lake.)  Reports are that they have attracted all species of fish in our lake from crappies to walleyes to smallmouth bass to muskys as well as most of the forage fish species.  We are going to do it again this February. Bill in Tony, WI

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Yes, We tie them together and sink them with cinder blocks.  The bass stack up on them.  They do not last as long as harder wood does, so you can change locations every year and your own private hot spots. Chris – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Has anyone had experience sinking Christmas trees for creating structure for bass or crappie? Prost! Gene

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Christmas trees arent the best type of cover due to clost limbs, it tends to protect the bait too much for bass anyway. The farther the limbs are spread the better, to an extent.  I would suggest not putting them on points, they are too easily found.  I like to put mine on a good channel ledge in a creek or river. The best ones on clear lakes is from 12-15 foot with a drop into deeper water immediately adjacent.

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Find a roll of the plastic snow fence material (sometimes you can get this used from a contractor), cut about ten feet and staple it in a circle, insert an X made of 2×2 or 2×4s to keep it’s shape, using poly rope install a plastic bleach bottle for the right flotation to keep it upright and bricks or building block for anchor. The poly rope length can be used to suspend the height of the “crappie condo”. This baby will last for several years. There’s a lot less hangups also.

Here Bud!!…why don’t you just throw off some tires, sink and old car or fridg. Better yet I’d like to see you take your boat out and chop some holes in it…now that would make some excellent structure!!…and keep you from trashing up the lake.

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Christmas trees arent the best type of cover due to close limbs, it tends to protect the bait too much for bass anyway. The farther the limbs are spread the better, to an extent.  I would suggest not putting them on points, they are too easily found.  I like to put mine on a good channel ledge in a creek or river.  The best ones on clear lakes is from 12-15 foot with a drop into deeper water immediately adjacent.

I would agree with most of what you stated, except the depth you recommend. Bass Pro Shops weekly radio program had a talk on this earlier in the year and they stated that the best depth for this type of attractant is water no more than 10 feet deep and that it’s best to have the tree top out at about 2-3 feet below the waters surface. This will bring in the crappies like crazy… I have tried it and it works well. The tree will only work well for about 6-8 months and will not attract good numbers of fish for about a month after it is placed. Weighting it down with cement blocks is a must.

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