re: I want to make some brushpiles

Tie tops to empty milk jug tightly sealed it’ll keep them upright as the sink . Bigger the top the more jugs to use. You see them on side imaging floating high

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I seriously cannot remember a single time, that I flipped into a Xmas tree and felt tap tap, or my favorite, one single hard tap, the tap that you feel all up your arm, and then the line slowly moves left or right, slowly.... Sorry I had to stop, getting a chub.

Anyway, yeah Xmas trees suck for bass

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Christmas and Cedar trees are all we put out on Eufaula for bass. The fresher they are, the better they are with our favorite being fresh cut cedar. The past few tournaments over the last couple of weeks have all been won on fresh brush piles, 30+lbs for a 5 fish limit. The more "boney" older structure still holds good fish, but not to the extent of the fresh ones in my opinion. Placement is key. We like to place them on creek/river ledges and old road beds with minimal structure in place already. We place them at different depths for summer and spring patterns. We just wire tie one or two cinder blocks to the main trunk of tree (depending on size) to sink them. Good electronics or buddies with good coordinates are key. We mostly throw jigs and shaky heads at them in the tree, as well as heavy spinnerbaits slow-rolled. We run crank baits on the outside edges of them. The shad spawn is in full swing right now, lots of big bags being caught.

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Bass don't like Xmas trees.. There are a few reasons why... They don't like pine much either.. It's the sap In Xmas trees and pine trees that gives off a pungent odor, to the fish... Also, like the guy said, there two tight with limbs, not spread out at all.

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My biggest fish to date, just over 8lbs, came out of the middle of a fresh layover pine. There was green pine straw on my line when I got her to the boat, after having to drag her out through the limbs. Not sure where you heard bass don't like pine but I know of at least one fish that loves it.

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How deep do bream hang out with Christmas trees?

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Depends on time of year, water clarity, etc...

Chinquapin can go to 20' or more in the winter. And I regularly catch bream on beds in 6' of water in some clearer lakes here in OK.

We have multiple bream beds located in 10-14’ of water on Lake Eufaula. It’s getting close to time for the bass to really start schooling in these areas post spawn before moving out to deeper river ledges. It’s about to be on... The beds are easy to spot on the Hummingbird Solix 15. I wouldn’t have thought they bedded that deep but it’s pretty obvious with good electronics. Absolutely amazing the level of detail you can see. Hard fishing about to get ready to move to easy catching

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You might as well wait 'til Christmas and collect a few Christmas trees

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Terrible choice for a brushpile unless you want to get hung up all the time and have broken lines. Never sink a Christmas tree.