Sinking Brush Piles for Crappie

It’s true that crappie fishermen usually maintain their playing cards near the vest in the case of divulging any details about their fishing spots.  It’s additionally usually the case that these anglers even develop private relationships with sure spots that they’ve been fishing for a few years. It may be a easy submerged log that all the time appears to carry fish or a whole tree-top cover that stretches out 20 toes into the primary river. Whichever the case, these spots have one factor in frequent; all of them include some form of submerged construction.
I not too long ago made a fishing journey with a gentleman who has been creating new fishing spots for fairly a while. It was on this journey that I skilled his methodology of sinking brush piles

It began after I acquired a textual content from Ray Miller at some point. Miller is a real cajun and is a wealth of data in the case of looking and fishing. Included within the textual content he despatched me was a photograph of a fallen tree department in Millers’ yard. I didn’t know what I used to be so I texted again asking what it was. “That’s my new fishing spot,” he stated. Miller then went on to inform me how he was going to take the set of branches out to the river and sink them with a view to create new fishing spots for the long run. This piqued my curiosity so I requested if I may tag alongside to see the way it was performed.

I met Miller on the boat launch on the Tchefuncte River in Southeast La. Miller was backing down his flatboat which was lined in branches and leaves. Miller and I managed to squeeze into the boat and had been capable of barely peek excessive of the leaves as we idled south. We motored down the river till we reached the spot the place Miller wished to sink the comb piles. He eased as much as a set of pilings that served because the toes to an interstate bridge. Miller picked up one of many branches and identified the dynamics of his rig.  “I tie one cinderblock on the underside of the department after which I tie a two-liter soda bottle stuffed with air to the highest,” Miller stated. “That forces the leafy a part of the department to drift up. It’s been my expertise that fish maintain to horizontal construction higher than vertical construction that’s laying on the underside,” he stated. I grabbed the underside of the department and Miller grabbed the highest and proceeded to throw it overboard. We repeated the method with two different branches. All three sunk in between the set of pilings. Miller stated the present in the primary river is robust in order that it’s essential to sink the comb piles in between the pilings so the concrete construction protects the comb from being pushed down river.

After sinking the comb piles Miller and I started fishing the river at varied areas. Miller made a number of stops in the primary river on this dreary, chilly day, and we had been capable of catch crappie virtually in every single place we stopped. We each used a Panfish Murderer Tiny Shad within the Crystal Shad colour to efficiently put collectively a strong field of fish.

However the spotlight of the day got here after we looped again to examine on the sunken brush piles. Miller lowered his transducer down and aimed it on the brush pile. We checked out his Livescope display and it lit up with fish. In only some hours there have been already crappie that had been holding to the construction. “Generally simply a few hours is all it takes to draw the baitfish. After that, the sac-a-lait observe,” he stated. Evidently, it was fairly a productive morning on the river as I used to be capable of take dwelling a field of crappie for the cleansing desk, however extra importantly, I realized that as an alternative of concentrating on discovering different anglers’ spots, I may create my very own by sinking brush piles.

Keith Lusher

Keith Lusher is an award successful outside journalist that resides in Covington, Louisiana. He owns and operates NorthshoreFishingReport.com and writes a weekly outside column for the Slidell Impartial Newspaper. He additionally writes for the St.Tammany Parish Tourism Fee’s LouisianaNorthshore.com and Louisiana Northshore Discover Journal. He’s the previous host of The Northshore Fishing Report Radio Present and is on the board of the Louisiana Out of doors Writers Affiliation. Keith contributes to quite a few publications each on-line and in print and prides himself on selling South Louisiana’s distinctive fishery.