Structure / Brush Piles

[fishingcajun]

What is the most popular and safest material used in constructing your own secret deep water bass hiding place?

How does one go about building them?

What time of the year do you normally deploy them?

How do you anchor them ?

What do you look for on the map to pick spots to put them out? Do you worry that other people may have some out on that particular point or not ?

Do you look for protected water as well as main lake water.

[Sam]

What is the most popular and safest material used in constructing your own secret deep water bass hiding place? - Plastic. However cedar Christmas trees do well.

How does one go about building them? - See page 352 of the 2010 Bass Pro Shop Master Catalog to see three examples.

What time of the year do you normally deploy them? - Winter, spring, summer and fall.

How do you anchor them ? - Yes. Concrete blocks.

What do you look for on the map to pick spots to put them out? - Anyplace you want that they will not float away. Along bank; out 5 to 10 feet; in middle; wherever.

Do you worry that other people may have some out on that particular point or not ? - Nope. The more the merrier.

Do you look for protected water as well as main lake water. - Yes, protected water is what I look for.

If you use purple and gold plastic you will attract more bass to your structure. 

Everyone does their own thing and you can't go wrong. 

If you do not anchor the structure properly it will float away.

Just my two cents. Check out what the other guys say they do.

In Mike the Tiger's Name,

Geaux Tigers 

[fishingcajun]

Thanks for your thoughts !

[BassThumb]

Thats some good info, Sam. I'm planning on dropping a few fish attractors in a little bowl of a lake that I frequent that has almost zero structure aside from docks, and very little cover in water deeper than 2'. I'll be using a combo of blocks and nylon rope, heavy brush, and chopped up logs with holes drilled in them. I'm considering maybe a piece or two of 2" ABS pipe to offer some overhead cover.

I'm curious about this claim, "If you use purple and gold plastic you will attract more bass to your structure."

Have you tried this, or heard about it? Why do you think it attracts more fish than a more natural color?

Thanks

[aarogb]

What is the most popular and safest material used in constructing your own secret deep water bass hiding place? - Plastic. However cedar Christmas trees do well.

How does one go about building them? - See page 352 of the 2010 Bass Pro Shop Master Catalog to see three examples.

What time of the year do you normally deploy them? - Winter, spring, summer and fall.

How do you anchor them ? - Yes. Concrete blocks.

What do you look for on the map to pick spots to put them out? - Anyplace you want that they will not float away. Along bank; out 5 to 10 feet; in middle; wherever.

Do you worry that other people may have some out on that particular point or not ? - Nope. The more the merrier.

Do you look for protected water as well as main lake water. - Yes, protected water is what I look for.

If you use purple and gold plastic you will attract more bass to your structure.

Everyone does their own thing and you can't go wrong.

If you do not anchor the structure properly it will float away.

Just my two cents. Check out what the other guys say they do.

In Mike the Tiger's Name,

Geaux Tigers

Hey Sam, do you think small building bricks will work or do you have to have concrete blocks?

[jettech]

10 or so ought to hold just about anything.  Dont skimp on the rope.  Get good stuff.

[BassThumb]

Hey Sam, do you think small building bricks will work or do you have to have concrete blocks?

Cinder blocks will work better because you can loop the rope thru them.

[Tin]

It's illegal in Ri to do but if you do it I hope you don't fish tournaments and fish them.

[camman]

I'm curious about this claim, "If you use purple and gold plastic you will attract more bass to your structure."

Have you tried this, or heard about it? Why do you think it attracts more fish than a more natural color?

Those colors only seem to work in Louisiana.  Orange/Blue works well in certain parts of Florida.  Crimson works well in Alabama.  Orange/White in Tennessee...etc....Not sure why it works but it does

[Sam]

Camman got it. Those are the school colors of the flagship universities in each state.

Yes, use nylon rope or chain to keep items on bottom so they don't float away.

Put anything down you want. The bass will be attracted to it.

Be sure it is clean of all petroleum products.

Brush, wood, metal, rocks, bricks, concrete blocks (my choice) and anything that will not rust away or as said before, float away.

Color makes no difference.

If I had the muscle power and a boat to launch on my local pond I would transfer lots of tree limbs and stumps into one area and keep it a secret.

Example:  On Friday I went to my double secret pond and caught an 8-pounder on a buzzbait adjacent to the big stack of wood in the pond. 

Pond was at full pool so I could not reach the middle of the tree pile but caught her along the edge.  The 6-pounder I caught was in towards shore between the bank and the wood pile.

When you sink anything in a body of water be sure to map it out so you know where it should be when you go back. 

[BassThumb]

I'm curious about this claim, "If you use purple and gold plastic you will attract more bass to your structure."

Have you tried this, or heard about it? Why do you think it attracts more fish than a more natural color?

Those colors only seem to work in Louisiana. Orange/Blue works well in certain parts of Florida. Crimson works well in Alabama. Orange/White in Tennessee...etc....Not sure why it works but it does

Nice.  It crossed my mind because of the Geaux Tigers! line. 

[Red Bear]

It's illegal in Ri to do but if you do it I hope you don't fish tournaments and fish them.

if it was up to you using anything but a cane pole and red wigglers would be illegal in tournaments