**HELP** Brush Piles

[fishslayer11]

Hey, i live in Georgia and i have been laying brush but i don't think I'm doing it as effectively as i could be, its producing some fish but i want to know how to produce more and bigger fish. Please share any effective ways you have Also I have a couple of questions also that i would like them to be answered.

1) What kind of trees for large mouth and spots

2) How big should the tree big?

3) What are prime locations for great brush?

4) How many limbs, Big or Small

or anything that will help me with better brush pile laying. Thanks

[.dsaavedra.]

wow how many times are you gonna post this???

just give it time and the fish will come......

[5bass]

Hey, i live in Georgia and i have been laying brush but i don't think I'm doing it as effectively as i could be, its producing some fish but i want to know how to produce more and bigger fish. Please share any effective ways you have Also I have a couple of questions also that i would like them to be answered.

1) What kind of trees for large mouth and spots

2) How big should the tree big?

3) What are prime locations for great brush?

4) How many limbs, Big or Small

or anything that will help me with better brush pile laying. Thanks

In my opinion, #3 is the most important thing when sinking brush. If you drop them in the right spots, 1, 2, and 4 really dont matter that much.

When you can find structure offshore that is presently barren of any cover, you've found a great spot. Sinking brush on that spot makes it even better.

I try to sink brush deep enough so that it cant be seen by someone just looking down in the water. I'm usually at least 15' down to 25' when I sink brush.

A good contour map will help tremendously. You can locate likely spots with a good map. I try to sink brush on spots that allow the fish using the brush, quick access to deeper water, as in near the main channel. Bigger bass move onto structure in deeper water during the summer months. The shad are usually out on the main lake and summer is the time when brushpiles are most effective. Big creeks with nice defined, deeper channels can also hold fish all summer if the water is deep enough and cool enough for a healthy shad population to survive.

If you know of any spots that always hold shad, look for a hump or point or some kind of structure in that area and sink some brush. It's good to have an idea of where the bass are likely to spend their summers, then drop some brush around these spots to try to draw them into a smaller area.  

If you just go out and drop brush randomly, you probably wont have much success picking fish off of those piles. Location is the single most important thing when sinking brush.  

[Crappiebasser]

five.bass.limit is dead on about where being most important. I will add that branches from hardwood trees last longer and seem to attract better quality fish. My next favorite is cedar trees. The  most important thing is to send me the gps coordinates so I can try them out to make sure you did them right.

[Eddie Munster]

Placing them in the middle of no where probably won't do any good. I think for them to be most effective you have to place them near a place you KNOW fish are going to be travelling. Try putting them near a drop off or break.

Good luck.