Christmas tree fishing structures

[Pondboss16]

Has anyone tried putting Christmas trees into lakes or ponds if so does ju work well at attracting fish?

[Twim26]

I've only heard of white perch mainly being attracted to Christmas trees, not so much bass but that's just me! 

[Bluebasser86]

I've used cedars and bass like them fairly well but hardwoods seem to hold bass better. 

[Ski]

Yes, it works for types of fish.

It attracts bait, which attracts small bream and crappie, which attracts LMB.

Been doing it in the S.E. for ever.

R/ Chris

[lo n slo]

10 hours ago, Pondboss16 said:

Has anyone tried putting Christmas trees into lakes or ponds if so does ju work well at attracting fish?

you better believe it. we usually drop in from 2 to 3 dozen every year. all you do is drive around town about a week after Christmas and they're everywhere. grab some 8x16 cement block (32 lbs a block) at Lowes for $1.50 each, and some small rope or wire, and you're set. one block per tree will usually do unless they're really dried out or super huge. placement is the key. i prefer brush piles consisting of at least a dozen trees minimum. i throw a buoy and make a circular pattern around it. consider points, humps, depth, and normal prevailing winds. dont try to stray too far from the launch and dont forget your life vest. take a buddy and some marker buoys, and tools... and tarps for the boat. you'll be finding spruce needles in the boat for months to come. it's nasty work but will pay off. catch one for me.

[mrmacwvu1]

you can also make them out of pvc pipe as well

baits don't get hung up as easily and they last longer

just scuff the pipe up and algae will grow on it starting the cycle of life

[lo n slo]

i will admit that the cedars and spruces dont last forever. they must be replenished every three years or so. hardwoods last alot longer. we threw some holly trees in once and those things did very well. they're awful "grabby" though. shrubbery does well too but can be messy and difficult to handle if rootballs are still in tact. a friend of mine used buckets with cement and long curved sections of black plastic pipe. i love me some brushpiles.

[IndianaFinesse]

1 hour ago, lo n slo said:

i will admit that the cedars and spruces dont last forever. they must be replenished every three years or so. hardwoods last alot longer. we threw some holly trees in once and those things did very well. they're awful "grabby" though. shrubbery does well too but can be messy and difficult to handle if rootballs are still in tact. a friend of mine used buckets with cement and long curved sections of black plastic pipe. i love me some brushpiles.

That's how I make mine.  All you need is a five gallon bucket, some trash bags, some concrete mix, some rope, A couple of straight plastic pipes at least four feet long, and a role of plastic tubing with about a two or three foot diameter. 

Step #1.  Put trash bag in the bucket, this is so you don't have to sink the bucket.

Step #2.  Pour about eight inches of concrete in.

Step #3.  Cut each coil of tubing into two pieces, so that there are a bunch of half circles of tubing.  The algae grows faster if the tubing is roughed up with sandpaper before.

Step #4.  Drill a long screw through the base of each section of piping, this makes it so they don't just slip out of the concrete.

Step #5.  Insert about fifteen of the curved sections of tubing into the concrete, spreading them out evenly.

Step #6.  Insert the straight tubes into the middle of the bucket.

Step #7.  take a foot long section of rope and coil it into a circle and stick it into the concrete, this way you can loop a longer rope through it and slowly lower it to the bottom.

Another way to do it is to simply buy a plastic tree from goodwill and tie a concrete block to it.