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Re: Built fish structure in the new pond
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07/13/21 09:43 AM
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Unless I just can't see something, there's not enough weight to hold those in place. I've been down the same road.
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Re: Built fish structure in the new pond
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07/13/21 09:50 AM
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The big boys on the crappie lakes been using 5 gallon buckets and PVC or PEX tube and form shrubs or small trees with them. The rounded surface makes for less snags while still giving them the structure to hide under.
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Re: Built fish structure in the new pond
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07/13/21 10:11 AM
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Those clay tile pieces are great. Stack as many together as you can. The PVC seems the way to go. Around here we gather used Christmas trees every year tie them to concrete blocks and put them out on the ice. Get your GPS and hit the waypoint button and done. A few big rock piles make awesome structure too
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Re: Built fish structure in the new pond
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07/13/21 10:24 AM
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Unless I just can't see something, there's not enough weight to hold those in place. I've been down the same road. We tied wire around everything and tied that wire to cinderblocks. And everything else not attached to cinder blocks weighed down some other way. I’m also planning on a lot of this to get water logged.
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Re: Built fish structure in the new pond
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07/13/21 10:25 AM
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Not enough .Make some out of PVC pipe . Tons of designs on internet Use one big pipe and branch off it. Put the main pipe in a 5 gal bucket filled with cement. The wood will be gone before the fish population can grow to harvestable size. I appreciate the info, as I stated in a previous reply to someone else i probably won’t use PVC but I will add more structure.
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Re: Built fish structure in the new pond
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07/13/21 10:37 AM
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I know a guy who got cinder blocks from a demo job and used them. The structures he built would provide big fish with cover and the holes in the blocks themselves provided the bait and hatchlings small spaces to hide
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Re: Built fish structure in the new pond
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07/13/21 10:38 AM
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Am in the process of doing exactly the same thing. Built a lil late in the year for good grass around the dam and edges but I have time to work on structures now. I had a few oak pallets that I put together but wonder if they will float eventually. I have access to really heavy steel 50 gal. drums so I put some of those in as well for the cats. I used my tractor and smashed them half closed at the mouth and put a fairly good size rock in them before I laid them on the side. Hauled 3 truck loads of mountain stone but that was about all I need of that stuff in 94 degree heat! Probably be next spring until it fills up so it's a work in progress.
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Re: Built fish structure in the new pond
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07/13/21 12:03 PM
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Unless I just can't see something, there's not enough weight to hold those in place. I've been down the same road. We tied wire around everything and tied that wire to cinderblocks. And everything else not attached to cinder blocks weighed down some other way. I’m also planning on a lot of this to get water logged. There's a lot of force from rising water and wood that still wants to float, most of them will be dislodged and floating before the pond fills. I thought the same thing, only to see everything floating randomly around the pond. If you have some earth anchors, they work well and are cheap.
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