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Use Your Christmas Tree to Make Underwater Habitat
Don't throw away your Christmas tree at the end of the holidays. Drag it onto the ice along with some hardwood limbs broken off during winter storms. This brushpile will sink in the spring, providing gamefish with cover and forage, and you with a secret honey hole.
Never drop hardwood limbs that still have their leaves, which collect silt the way a Hoover collects dust. And cut branches from your Christmas tree to supply gamefish with holes to hide in.
Use large limbs, and make sure branches stick up at angles so that cover will extend upward from the bottom for several feet.
Bundle trees and limbs together with rope and attach it to a cinder block or two to keep them from drifting out of position.
Note: This practice isn't legal in every state.
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Comments (5)
that was very helpful. now i know what to do with my christmas tree next year.
More and more people are setting up fish habitats with their old trees. I have several friends who drop 20 or more trees each season to establish habitats.
Just make sure it's allowed at your lake, certain lakes do not allow trees to be dropped, you could be hit with a heavy fine,
We do that in Lake Lanier here in Ga. Usually about 15 feet out in front of boat docks and in coves. It works great, my dad and I have caught lot's of fish off of these little sanctuaries.
I am not a 100% sure but you might want to check with your states division, because I have heard of a guy who got in trouble for doing this and was fined a pretty penny.
Never heard, seen, or even thought of this but it is a nice way to recycle what would end up at the dump. It makes logical sense so I could deffinantly understand it being a place for fish to hide out. Also, if you are the only one doing it, it allows for some secret honey holes.... Brilliant! You could probably get a whole slew of christmas trees for this considering the number put out at the edge of the driveway after Christmas.
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that was very helpful. now i know what to do with my christmas tree next year.
I am not a 100% sure but you might want to check with your states division, because I have heard of a guy who got in trouble for doing this and was fined a pretty penny.
More and more people are setting up fish habitats with their old trees. I have several friends who drop 20 or more trees each season to establish habitats.
Just make sure it's allowed at your lake, certain lakes do not allow trees to be dropped, you could be hit with a heavy fine,
We do that in Lake Lanier here in Ga. Usually about 15 feet out in front of boat docks and in coves. It works great, my dad and I have caught lot's of fish off of these little sanctuaries.
Never heard, seen, or even thought of this but it is a nice way to recycle what would end up at the dump. It makes logical sense so I could deffinantly understand it being a place for fish to hide out. Also, if you are the only one doing it, it allows for some secret honey holes.... Brilliant! You could probably get a whole slew of christmas trees for this considering the number put out at the edge of the driveway after Christmas.
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