Super User 5bass Posted December 31, 2005 Super User Posted December 31, 2005 Tomorrow is the day.Everybody's throwing out their Christmas trees and its the perfect time to collect 'em up and start building your personal bass condo's on the bottom of your favorite lake.Get on 'em boys! Quote
Super User Gatorbassman Posted December 31, 2005 Super User Posted December 31, 2005 I used to do this on Lake Allatoona in North Georgia. I bet I picked up 400 trees one year. It is a great way to add a few honey holes in your home lake. I found that it is best to put no less than 10 trees in one pile. More is best. Quote
SCarter Posted December 31, 2005 Posted December 31, 2005 We have 2 loads to go to Weiss Lake. My partner has a lake house with a dock and we have loaded it up for the last 5 years. The water is down to just a stream in their cove right now so we get to place them how we want. Has made some GREAT crappie fishing and he caught a 7# bass last year casting from his walk. Quote
Super User Gatorbassman Posted December 31, 2005 Super User Posted December 31, 2005 Here is a money saveing tip. There is probable a company somewhere close to you that makes concrete bricks. They will have a pile of broken ones that they will give away if you ask. Tie two to a tree and you shouldn't have any problem sinking them. Quote
Super User 5bass Posted December 31, 2005 Author Super User Posted December 31, 2005 I went out this afternoon and got about 30 or so,if I get twice that many tomorrow I'll be satisfied.It really does help when the fish get on brush in the summer.Aside from lining main channel points with brush,I will also put some in ditches near spawning flats.....somewhere for them to hide while they are waiting for the water to warm up in the spring. Quote
mcipinkie Posted January 1, 2006 Posted January 1, 2006 When you guys find those Christmas trees, grind 'em for mulch. Don't put them in the lake. Christmas trees are much over rated as far as fish cover, at least in my view, and they are hard to fish through. A lot of people think the evergreens put out an oil for that is offensive to fish for a long time. I don't know about that, one way or the other. I do know that on the lake I live on there are dozens of brushpiles, some that were here when I moved here 20 years ago. They used to be consistent fish holders. The local Sportsman's Club has been supplementing these old brush piles every year with hundreds of Christmas trees. The crappie still seem to congregate around these piles, but the bass have gone. I was out this afternoon running brush piles where five years ago, you could load up on winter bass. Not a bite today. You figure it out. All I have is my own emperical evidence and observations, maybe 100% off base, but I don't like Christmas trees as fish habitat. Find some hardwood for brush piles if you feel like you have to make them. Quote
Super User 5bass Posted January 1, 2006 Author Super User Posted January 1, 2006 I'm well aware that hardwoods are obviously a better candidate for a brushpile.But where can you go pick up 100 trees all in one day that are perfect size for sinking that are hardwoods?If I had that option,that's what I would do.Of course all the piles I sink (or have sunk) wont hold fish but alot of them will and do.Thanks for your input though. Quote
Super User Gatorbassman Posted January 1, 2006 Super User Posted January 1, 2006 I'm well aware that hardwoods are obviously a better candidate for a brushpile.But where can you go pick up 100 trees all in one day that are perfect size for sinking that are hardwoods?If I had that option,that's what I would do.Of course all the piles I sink (or have sunk) wont hold fish but alot of them will and do.Thanks for your input though. I agree. Use what is accessable. I have about 20 spots that I add trees to every year. If you keep adding trees there will always be good cover for the fish. Quote
SCarter Posted January 1, 2006 Posted January 1, 2006 Natures hardwood brushpiles ,, the banks of Lake Weiss and the Coosa River Channel. Not hurting for blowdowns a bit. We have fished one specific tree for 5 years now that blew down into the water. the trunk is about 6' across. Many nice fish ouyt of the top of that one. Quote
Super User Sam Posted January 1, 2006 Super User Posted January 1, 2006 My fishing guide friend told me not to use pine trees for brush piles. It seems the bass don't like the sap that seeps out. He suggested fir or spruce trees which give off a sap that the baitfish like to suck and therefore attracting the bass. I have no idea if this is true and would appreciate any feedback anyone has heard or learned. Thanks and you all have a great New Year! Quote
Super User Gatorbassman Posted January 1, 2006 Super User Posted January 1, 2006 My fishing guide friend told me not to use pine trees for brush piles. It seems the bass don't like the sap that seeps out. He suggested fir or spruce trees which give off a sap that the baitfish like to suck and therefore attracting the bass. I have no idea if this is true and would appreciate any feedback anyone has heard or learned. Thanks and you all have a great New Year! I think I've heard that before. Quote
Triton_Mike Posted January 1, 2006 Posted January 1, 2006 Yeah don't use pine for structure. If you do let me know where you put them out at so I don't fish near them : I probably catch more fish off of a pine laydown than an oak one . Try it before you believe it. T Mike Quote
Super User 5bass Posted January 2, 2006 Author Super User Posted January 2, 2006 Yeah don't use pine for structure. If you do let me know where you put them out at so I don't fish near them : I probably catch more fish off of a pine laydown than an oak one . Try it before you believe it. T Mike I gotcha Of all the pines I have put down through the years,some are better than others.Some hold no fish any time,others sometimes,others all the time.And some dont even exist anymore.It's all about placement.I have noticed that some piles take a while to get fish to them(could be that pesky sap thing) but eventually all the sap "leaks" out......and how much sap is in a 6 ft pine tree anyway? Quote
Super User Gatorbassman Posted January 2, 2006 Super User Posted January 2, 2006 Yeah don't use pine for structure. If you do let me know where you put them out at so I don't fish near them : I probably catch more fish off of a pine laydown than an oak one . Try it before you believe it. T Mike I have them on my GPS. But they are in some of your favorite areas on the Dead Sea. You probably already know about them. Quote
Low_Budget_Hooker Posted January 2, 2006 Posted January 2, 2006 We got lucky this year. They built another house on the lake and the new residents ended up doing some clearing of their own, dopwn by the waters edge. I asked permission to help them get rid of the wood. Lots of oak and pine. I added a bunch to the lake so I think I'll lay off the xmas trees this year. We have 2 main piles of trees (xmas) in the lake. When we add more, we add them to the same area, just increasing the size of both piles. THey both produced fish from the get-go. Literally holding fish by the time the ice was out. Quote
MoBassFishN Posted January 3, 2006 Posted January 3, 2006 Those christmas trees may not be the easiest thing to fish and they may not produce as much as a plain white oak pile, but don't forsake them just for this. You have to fish that christmas tree harder to get the bite that's there because most people don't remove some of the limbs making hides or passage ways through the tree. Even if the bass don't hold to it, the bait fish do. What do you think the crappie are there for? Anytime you can increase the baitfish holding capabilities of a lake, you are increasing the potential for bass holding structure too! Plant away dudes! Just don't forget to tell me whereya put 'em! :-* Quote
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