Re: Man made Crappie beds..right? ... wrong ?.
Well KRS, all I can say is that most people don't put these things in real shallow waters because it is against regulations....................not to mention most fishermen are soooo secretive about where they put a fish crib, that they wont put it in a spot you can see from the surface (so generally 4-5ft under the surface). I also know that here cribs arent that common. Like Tn we need a permit for it here to.....usually people put cribs on the ice and then let them sink in springtime.<br /><br /><br />Now about "Hmmmm.... just a thought.... just because it's 10' of water today doesn't mean it's gonna be 10' of water at the end of summer.... I wonder about that.... " Now I would think that the cribs made of wood......which almost all of them that I have seen are, would be long since decayed in that amount of time. Here I have seen no lakes that fluctuate by more than a couple of foot from year to year, but the ice melt the following year seems to fix that if its low one year.<br /><br /><br />In a lake without a lot of natrual structure, a crib can be vital for the survival of quite a few fish. Around here they are helpful because we have so many musky, they give smaller ish like the crappie and bluegills a place to hide. Personally I prefer the homemade brush/wood structures as they are more natrual etc.