does any one here make brushpiles in their home town lake or anywhere else during off season and fish them in tounaments..x-mas trees porkypines ect. ... thanks

I know of a lot of people who do it and it is bs in my book.

I know of a lot of people who do it and it is bs in my book.

Agreed...

Only the cheaters.

thanks for the input

We have a lot of laws about that stuff up here.

We have a lot of laws about that stuff up here.

Yep.  I unwittingly broke the law several times on Port Bay, when I was younger.  Last year I saw some of my handiwork sitting on the bank near our old dock....

:-?

No one take this the wrong way, does everyone that think it is cheating would you fish a brushpile or crappie bed that you found but that someone else put in?

No one take this the wrong way, does everyone that think it is cheating would you fish a brushpile or crappie bed that you found but that someone else put in?

i think that if you find someone else's brushpile..that you didn't put there or your buddies is fair game , but if i was to create my own , and win , i wouldn't want to be called out on it, i wanted to know what others thought first.

I'm confused on why this is viewed so negatively?

So someone invests their time in sinking brush to improve fishing...what's the big deal.  It's not like the fish jump in your livewell when you go to your brushpile.

YOU STILL HAVE TO CATCH THEM   

~Thomas

I'm confused on why this is viewed so negatively?

So someone invests their time in sinking brush to improve fishing...what's the big deal. It's not like the fish jump in your livewell when you go to your brushpile.

YOU STILL HAVE TO CATCH THEM

~Thomas

I'm with you. As long as it's done legally, I don't have a problem with it. I don't sink brush, but I could if I wanted to and so could anyone else. It doesn't create an unfair advantage if everyone is allowed to do it.

Two ways to go down here. You either set them out or you watch someone else(If they are foolish enough to try it during daylight), and then go punch in the coordinates. Either way they get done.

There are thousands in Lake Conroe,(Yes, a few(Bunch) are mine), and I guarantee you they didn't grow on their own. It's a good thing too, since the Lake Homeowners Association took it on themselves to dump 50,000 grass carp in the lake to eradicate ALL of the grass. At least the surviving fish have something to attach themselves to other than the thousands of docks where they would be easy pickings.

Exactly, it creates cover and a place for you to catch fish. Yes some piles are in very deep water where a normal person will have a hard time finding. You still have to catch the fish.

Most of the time it does not give anyone an unfair advantage, the fish still have to be there and you still have to catch them.

With the water low since last Oct. I have marked roughly 130+ stake beds and brushpiles that someone has put in. Even marked an artificial stump row made out of old toilets on sunday.

Trust me, these spots don't hold fish year round, but when it gets right they will hold a good fish or two, or several crappie per bed.

Florida strain, if it's legal for you to do do it, no one should call you out for it, they have just as much right to those brushpiles as you do, even if you put them out- it's public water, tell them to beat you to them next time. It will give you a place to fish when it gets tough. You also give cover to quite a few fish in the process.

Anyone that thinks it's cheating, I would expect when you find a manmade brushpile that you don't fish it, it would be wrong. :

People underestimate how hard it is to build a productive brushpile.  We use them a lot for Crappie but in Toledo for Bass there is cover everywhere so its not really needed.

No one take this the wrong way, does everyone that think it is cheating would you fish a brushpile or crappie bed that you found but that someone else put in?

I have never found a man made brush pile up here, just lots of stumps because almost all of our lakes are man made.

It is a lot easier to cut down several well placed trees on a shoreline. Space them out though!!!

It is a lot easier to cut down several well placed trees on a shoreline. Space them out though!!!

Seriously though, have you ever come across anything off-shore that was man-made? I know of a couple concrete slabs and Christmas trees around docks and that is it. I do agree that it is tough to make a fish-attracting piles, of all the Christmas trees I know of in Indian and Johnsons, I have never caught a fish off them.

I have.  It's quite the norm around these parts.  Even the state puts out large brush piles in many of the lakes and reservoirs as a means of fish enhancement.  Most state lake maps have the locations marked and there are usually markers on shore indicating that a brushpile is directly off shore of the marker. 

Nothing wrong with fishing them whether in a tournament or not. 

Seriously though, have you ever come across anything off-shore that was man-made? I know of a couple concrete slabs and Christmas trees around docks and that is it. I do agree that it is tough to make a fish-attracting piles, of all the Christmas trees I know of in Indian and Johnsons, I have never caught a fish off them.

It is a lot easier to cut down several well placed trees on a shoreline. Space them out though!!!

Seriously though, have you ever come across anything off-shore that was man-made? I know of a couple concrete slabs and Christmas trees around docks and that is it. I do agree that it is tough to make a fish-attracting piles, of all the Christmas trees I know of in Indian and Johnsons, I have never caught a fish off them.

Just boats, cars, and the occasional 55 gallon barrel. 

It is a lot easier to cut down several well placed trees on a shoreline. Space them out though!!!

Seriously though, have you ever come across anything off-shore that was man-made? I know of a couple concrete slabs and Christmas trees around docks and that is it. I do agree that it is tough to make a fish-attracting piles, of all the Christmas trees I know of in Indian and Johnsons, I have never caught a fish off them.

Just boats, cars, and the occasional 55 gallon barrel.

I do pretty good off barrels and shopping carts, lol. There is a car (cant tell what) with a T-Topped roof in ^*%$#@@@!%^& Pond in Mass, and yes, I have pulled a fish out of it.

I don't sink piles myself, but know several people that do.  Side Imaging electronics has evened the playing field.  If you are willing to spend time graphing productive water you will never run out of spots. I was going over an old map today and my mapping card shows several different contour changes then an early nineties map.