Crappie/fish attractors?

Anyone build and put out fish attractors? Any pics or tips you have learned from trial and error would be appreciated. Thanks

Go to crappie.com Lots of good info there

i use to take pallets and nail tobacco sticks to it spacing about 12" a part....
lay pallet out flat, stand the sticks vertical spacing 12".....make sure the sticks are not visible at the water surface or you will give away your spot....

I used to put out all kinds of them. Pallets with the uprights nailed on, 5 gal buckets with wood uprights screwd on with rocks for weight,brush pile weighed down with concrete blocks, nursery containers with brush stuck into concrete to hold and weight it down. The last I put out were 3-5 gl used nursery containers with five pieces of 11/4 inch pvc pipe stuck in concrete. They were the easiest to put out. Load in boat and find your spot and drop four or five in the area and get your gps position. I also did some containers with cane. The pipe and cane used the five pieces to angle out with one in the center.
Lots of work if you do a bunch. But I got to where I had the pipe buckets made up and would haul about five in the boat to put out before I started fishing on each fishing trip.

I build a few buckets when I have free time,I put 6-8 buckets to a spot

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Built these today all out of scrap pipe and free buckets.
Built a few out of tobacco sticks also, probably go with the tobacco sticks
It was much easier and faster.

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Built these today all out of scrap pipe and free buckets.
Built a few out of tobacco sticks also, probably go with the tobacco sticks
It was much easier and faster.

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Looks good,bet fish like them.

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If you are going through the effort I'd use PVC instead of wood ... It will last a lot longer ... Just hit with some 60 grit sandpaper paper so the algae has something to adhere to ...

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the TWRA made some out of the flexible 4" drain pipe. seem like i heard crappie like a bigger structure than skinny stakes.

WTM":1u7boz8x said:

the TWRA made some out of the flexible 4" drain pipe. seem like i heard crappie like a bigger structure than skinny stakes.

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I believe crappie like wood better,steaks or sunk trees (-:

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bluball":289xvfpf said:

WTM":289xvfpf said:

the TWRA made some out of the flexible 4" drain pipe. seem like i heard crappie like a bigger structure than skinny stakes.

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I believe crappie like wood better,steaks or sunk trees (-:

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i like to target trees or sunken logs, but i catch more black than whites. all those TWRA stake beds on birdsong and eagle creek i have yet to catch one fish off of them in the last couple of years.

How many of you that plant these call and get permission? I think TVA has to be contacted on the lakes they control unless it has changed ,I use to take my Christmas tree and sink it but never caught the first fish off it lol

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bluball":2g0htql5 said:

WTM":2g0htql5 said:

the TWRA made some out of the flexible 4" drain pipe. seem like i heard crappie like a bigger structure than skinny stakes.

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I believe crappie like wood better,steaks or sunk trees (-:

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i like to target trees or sunken logs, but i catch more black than whites. all those TWRA stake beds on birdsong and eagle creek i have yet to catch one fish off of them in the last couple of years.

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The biologist say there's higher number of blacks south of I-40.I don't do any good on the shallow beds at eagle Creek either,but do better on deeper structure there.Even though I think wood is better it rots out,pvc would last forever.From what a friend tells me that has made some pvc beds,it takes longer for it to get fish on them.

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mike243":2pkykytx said:

How many of you that plant these call and get permission? I think TVA has to be contacted on the lakes they control unless it has changed ,I use to take my Christmas tree and sink it but never caught the first fish off it lol

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Never get permission on ky lake,see game wardens and talk to them while sinking structure.One warden even thanked us,said he caught fish off of one of our beds

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74MOPAR":2v56y6aa said:

Built these today all out of scrap pipe and free buckets.
Built a few out of tobacco sticks also, probably go with the tobacco sticks
It was much easier and faster.

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Made a few more yesterday, I like these better.

74MOPAR":28cywyni said:

74MOPAR":28cywyni said:

Built these today all out of scrap pipe and free buckets.
Built a few out of tobacco sticks also, probably go with the tobacco sticks
It was much easier and faster.

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Made a few more yesterday, I like these better.

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Look good, bet you catch lots of fish off them

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That is some crappie slab attractors for sure.

So my only experience is on the TN river chain in AL, but I've always heard that unless you drive them into the ground somehow, the attractor is just going to make its way downstream with the current?

Ky lake,part of the tn river is where I live and have put out a few beds.Anything that can catch the main river current has a chance of being moved,steaks driven or weighed structure.In the creeks it's usually good.

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The crappie assoc. at lake Weiss Al. use a 12" cenderblock with 6-8 pieces of cane about 6-8' tall cemented down in the block .They claim that the crappie love the structure and when the cane hardens after it dries out that the hooks will slide off rather than hanging up ..