alwaysfishking wrote:
I launched this morning to the site of 2 fisherman gently lowering
cinderblocks out into open water. They must have had about 30 of them on the
jon boat as it looked like it was gonna sink. I fished nearby watching as
the continued to drop these blocks down. I figured they were building some
structure to fish later on some time. When they left I motored over and
marked it on my GPS. I'll see how it does whn I go back out.

Question:

If given the oppurtunity how would you go about adding some structure to a
lake. This particular lake has a very featureless bottom, barely any stumps
or sticks, average depth is between 8-12 feet and it's loaded with weeds.

What materials would you use to construct it, how big would it be and in
what shape? Anything that promotes fish growth and doesn't hurt the lake is
permissable. Idea's? suggestions?


Personally, I would grab (or have :-) haha ) old dried out XMas trees, ,
drill a holes through the trunk of say 2 or 3, use a heavy duty wire
that will not rot and run the wire through the trees and then around
center blocksk so that the trees stand upright. In a featureless lake,
you definitely want to find areas that the fish would cross anyway, such
as the deep side of a point that turns in, or turns out. The end of a
the the point, a transition of bottom content (rock to mud), (clay, mud)
etc. Really I have found....uuhh.. ummm heard that where you put them
can almost be just as important as what you make them out of.

I had just stumbled across and article about some cribs that were
dropped on Lake Winnebago here several years ago using all Old Tires! I
have no idea where these cribs are. I have found other cribs that look
like small log cabins if you can picture that.

With all this said, I am not sure of the rules in your area with your
Natural Resource department, and in this case it isn't easier to ask for
forgiveness rather than for permission. Some reason the DNR thinks
they know more than fisherman do! (Haha, I hope you guys realize that
was a failed attempt at humor, and I in no way believe I know more than
a person or persons that studies fish biology for a living).

Good luck Randy, can you take pictures of your cribs before you drop
them??? If you so decide to do it, I would be really interested to see
what you come up with.

OH...one thing, make sure the tree is completely dead and dried out, I
again have heard for some reason the fish avoid "green" trees. I am
sure there is an explanation, but I have not looked into it.

Chris