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<blockquote data-quote="r00s7a" data-source="post: 1150901" data-attributes="member: 9675"><p>I am currently working on stocking a 25 acre lake around Antlers that has little to no cover in it. Unfortunately I was not involved during the construction phase so that I could get the structure in before it was filled, that would have made it a lot easier. </p><p></p><p>I got a generous donation of a few hundred feet of waterpipe from someone in town, and had stacks of cinder blocks at my dispose, so all I had to buy was some Quickcrete. I cut about 4 ft sections of the waterpipe and put 4 sections in each hole of the cinderblock and filled it with concrete. They look like big spiders... hence the name spider blocks. The good thing about them, since they are big and plastic, hookups will be few compared to cedar trees, and they won't deteriorate over time. And they are easy to sink. I have also done some cedar trees, but when you get a good sized tree, it takes a surprising amount of weight to sink it. When sinking cover, sink it at different levels. Give them a good trail of cover at different depths for whatever their mood. And sink it in places that you access from where you plan on fishing. </p><p></p><p>We stocked fatheads in the lake last year, and since the spawn upside down, we needed to supply them some good cover. I drove a t-post under water and stacked two pallets on it. This was no easy task in the winter when you don't want to get wet! You will have to weight them to get them to sink of course, and once again, it takes quite a bit of weight to sink a couple of pallets. Once they were sunk, we wired them to the t-posts just in case the blocks got knocked off. I have also heard of people tossing sections ov PVC pipe in to provide spawning habitat for fatheads. PVC will naturally sink, so it wouldn't be difficult.</p><p></p><p>So that's my 5 cents...</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>[Broken External Image]</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="r00s7a, post: 1150901, member: 9675"] I am currently working on stocking a 25 acre lake around Antlers that has little to no cover in it. Unfortunately I was not involved during the construction phase so that I could get the structure in before it was filled, that would have made it a lot easier. I got a generous donation of a few hundred feet of waterpipe from someone in town, and had stacks of cinder blocks at my dispose, so all I had to buy was some Quickcrete. I cut about 4 ft sections of the waterpipe and put 4 sections in each hole of the cinderblock and filled it with concrete. They look like big spiders... hence the name spider blocks. The good thing about them, since they are big and plastic, hookups will be few compared to cedar trees, and they won't deteriorate over time. And they are easy to sink. I have also done some cedar trees, but when you get a good sized tree, it takes a surprising amount of weight to sink it. When sinking cover, sink it at different levels. Give them a good trail of cover at different depths for whatever their mood. And sink it in places that you access from where you plan on fishing. We stocked fatheads in the lake last year, and since the spawn upside down, we needed to supply them some good cover. I drove a t-post under water and stacked two pallets on it. This was no easy task in the winter when you don't want to get wet! You will have to weight them to get them to sink of course, and once again, it takes quite a bit of weight to sink a couple of pallets. Once they were sunk, we wired them to the t-posts just in case the blocks got knocked off. I have also heard of people tossing sections ov PVC pipe in to provide spawning habitat for fatheads. PVC will naturally sink, so it wouldn't be difficult. So that's my 5 cents... [b][Broken External Image][/b] [/QUOTE]
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