Sinking Christmas Trees

[b35w]

Me and Trace are going to create some brush piles this year. What is your favorite method?


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[TheVisorGuy]

5 gallon bucket full of concrete tied to the bottoms.


Trust me it's nowhere near as fun as it sounds

[b35w]

5 gallon bucket full of concrete tied to the bottoms.


Trust me it's nowhere near as fun as it sounds

Was thinking of going the cinder block route. Will that work as well?




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[BEAR]

Growing up we always tied some cinder blocks to the trees. Threw them in my grandparent’s pond. Over the years the pond got silted in more and more until it got to the point the tops of the Christmas trees stuck out the water a good foot to two feet. They made good Crappie fishing though.

[Palmetto Duck]

If you fill the 5 gallon bucket full of concrete it will be a bitch to move with the trees in it. Go to the nursery and get some of those 3 gallon buckets the shrubs come in. Bamboo works great first year but loses leaves pretty quickly after you sink it.

[TheVisorGuy]

Was thinking of going the cinder block route. Will that work as well?




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Yes. The deader the tree the better. And no definitely do t fill the bucket full to the top unless you plan on bundling 3 or 4 trees together like we usually do

[thunderchicken]

Use live oak limbs. They will sink on their own and hold their leaves for a long time.

[loud1]

I usually use potted plant containers. Cheaper. Also burn your Christmas tree and go cut some oak or any kind of hardwood limbs.

[Catdaddy]

A landscaper will give you all the 3 gallon container your truck will hold.one 60 lb bag of sacrete will do two containers.

You need to decide what species you are trying to attract. Vertical Christmas trees will attract crappie.
For bass they need to be no more than 3 ft high.

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[UpSouth811]

I like using sandbags personally. Doesn’t scratch the boat all up and sand is cheap. As mentioned above the landscape buckets work great also and they will give them to you.

[Duck Tape]

Cement blocks work well. The sooner you sink the Christmas trees the less blocks you will need. A small plastic bottle full of air can help hold the top of tree up. Never sink any kind of limb or tree without the block. Green hardwoods trees are better and will sink easier but wind causes currents that can move the limbs.

Mark your drop spot before loading trees. If the drop within 1/4 mile of your bank or pier, consider pre trying your brush pile. Have an independent rope to pull the pile slowly to the drop zone, cleat it close to boat, tie blocks and drop. 18 ft deep on a steep drop.

[Duck cutter]

I have an uncle that used to put out a good bit of brush. He would use CMU’s or “cinder blocks” as they’ve been called. He would drill holes through the trunks and take old Romex wire ( he’s and electrician so he always had plenty scrap wire around) and tie the blocks and trees together. He came home from work one evening and in the dark loaded the boat with trees and blocks and started assembling his piles. The next day, about dark again, he went to sink them and he had a large brush pile on the back casting deck of the boat. He went to pushing and kicking the brush pile off the back and side and about the time it started sinking the boat started standing up in the water. Somehow he had unknowingly gotten a piece of his wire wrapped around the steering control cables and being dark both when he loaded the boat and went to the lake he failed to notice it. To hear him talk he was hanging on to whatever he could grab with one hand, had a flashlight in his mouth and with his free hand was trying to cut the wire loose from the steering cable with his other. Somehow he managed to get it loose but I’m sure they heard him cussing from buzzards roost all the way back to Harris Landing that night

[SNAP Hunter]

Don’t use Christmas trees unless you trim some limbs out. They are too thick and the crappie can’t get in them. It’s the wrong time of year for hardwoods since they don’t have any leaves on them. Anything that you put in the water will need to be green so that the leaves or needles will stay on longer. Concrete or cinder blocks work fine but you need to tie a 2 liter bottle to the top if you want the brush to stay upright. One of the most important is things to remember is to cut the water column in half. Brush should be placed out in the spring after the leaves come back. Good luck.

[Smilee]

Cedar trees work. Fall cut hardwoods work. I sink brush all through the winter and catch fish in the spring off that same brush. Son caught this one back in May, just under 2 lbs. He has learned to cast a jig count and retrieve fishing brush.

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[Steelin' Ducks]

Litter Bugs

[PalmettoTrooper]

The power company flew a helicopter over my place and butchered a lot of my hardwoods. Weeks later and The limbs are still everywhere on the ground if you want them????

Joking aside
Lake world sells some pre made structure that looks pretty nice. Maybe get some build ideas from what they have.

[Duck Tape]

I prefer no leaves. Brush seems better the second year once coated with algae and leaves are off.

But to be sure any brush is better than none.

[b35w]

The power company flew a helicopter over my place and butchered a lot of my hardwoods. Weeks later and The limbs are still everywhere on the ground if you want them????

Joking aside
Lake world sells some pre made structure that looks pretty nice. Maybe get some build ideas from what they have.

Our neighbor has about an acre of BIG bamboo. I also considered going that route


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[KRT]

I prefer no leaves. Brush seems better the second year once coated with algae and leaves are off.

But to be sure any brush is better than none.

I’ve always heard algae was the goal. Guy at work uses pvc pipe. He also claims he doesn’t get hung up on the structure as easy. Internet pic below. Several different ways to do it.

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[DRDUCK]

We burn the green off the Christmas tree's, nothing but branch's