Guest Posted January 28, 2015 Posted January 28, 2015 How did you manage to wrap the wire around the rocks without the rocks slipping off?
Old plug Posted January 28, 2015 Posted January 28, 2015 Oh that is a backbreaking job. I prefer oak and hickory in whole limbs about 4 inches are a little larger. They go down real fast and that helps a lot with getting good placement. Cedar has to be weighted even when full of sap. Even weighted it will sometimes walk off on the bottom as well do to current and topography. I have no doubt the board and plank will work. Sometimes I think anything has to do is make a break for its surrounding to attact fish. Then again I have seen people put in fish attractors that never attract fish other than sunfish.
Old plug Posted January 28, 2015 Posted January 28, 2015 How did you manage to wrap the wire around the rocks without the rocks slipping off? Yeah I would like like to know that too. I have had that happen several times after busting my butt to get the brish to the right spot.
Andy & JoAnne Posted January 28, 2015 Posted January 28, 2015 Andy that looks perfect unless you're bank fishing, what you could do is take 3 cinder blocks & lay them in line & tie a 2x12 across them. It's called a plank. Apparently smallmouth like spawning around these home made planks. Sounds like a good idea. I have been taking some pics since they lowered the water and there are several prime spawning areas that I would love to lay a plank or two as you have described. The nice thing about these areas are you should be able to bring smallmouth to hand quickly for a fast release. Still sucks that my home lake will be out of commission for motorized boats until Memorial Day. That's when they open the public and community ramps. I see a canoe in my future!!!!
Andy & JoAnne Posted January 28, 2015 Posted January 28, 2015 How did you manage to wrap the wire around the rocks without the rocks slipping off? After you wrap the wire around the rock, use duct tape to secure the wire to the rock. Duct tape and wire can be used to fix anything in the south
Guest Posted January 28, 2015 Posted January 28, 2015 Old plug, I like your idea of the 4" limbs. That sounds a lot easier than dealing with a rootball & stump. I know some pea gravel flats that could use a limb or two.
Guest Posted January 28, 2015 Posted January 28, 2015 Andy you could dress up those planks with small piles of pea gravel spread out enough for those brown bass to make beds
dtrs5kprs Posted January 28, 2015 Posted January 28, 2015 Old plug, I like your idea of the 4" limbs. That sounds a lot easier than dealing with a rootball & stump. I know some pea gravel flats that could use a limb or two. Branches/limbs were how we made ours in Iowa for that project. Basically cut up wood from a housing development site.
Guest Posted January 29, 2015 Posted January 29, 2015 Drawdowns are my favorite. We don't have too many in the Ozarks. Back in Mississippi where there are miles of mud flats, they would draw down every fall. Some of my very best spots were discovered during the low water period. Offshore creek channels & isolated stumps
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