re: Crappie condo weights

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We use large sandbags. They are cheap. You don’t have to have tops standing straight up. We’ve probably had better luck with laying them on the side. A couple sandbags tied on the bottom and a coke bottle or pool noodle tied in the top to make one end stand up off bottom.

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This is a COE lake, they ain't going to stand up no matter what because when they open the dam eerything leans down river. If they are poured in concrete they will eventually turn over. I anchor them with about a foot of rope. It allows them to "bend" when they are generating and then the pool noodle stands them more or less back up when the current slacks off. Also mostly hard clay bottoms even in 50 feet of water so buckets and the like will roll when they turn over and everyone of them will wind in the bottom of a creek or river channel eventually in 70 feet of water. Stripers and catfish love them in that depth but not crappie. I have caught some spotted bass in 50 feet of water though.


Sand bags are ideal but a lot of damed work. I have used them a bunch in the past and they do not move...I have a friend on a rescue dive team locally and he has videos of brush piles he and I set out 20+ years ago and the trees are mostly gone but the sand bags are still intact and appear to be exactly where they should be....I may go with sand bags, they are my first choice but they are a lot of work.