Placing brush piles?

[10Key]

ILLEGAL!

WDFW is considering some projects on the west side, similar to what they've done on the east side but not legal for us. Do I send them GPS coordinates now, or wait until the project officially starts?

In other COMPLETELY UNRELATED news, I ordered my ninja suit from Amazon last night and it will be delivered Monday 

I won't tell as long as you PM me waypoints

[Mfowl]

Thanks for posting an update!

[OutHouse]

I would love to sink some structure into Lake Merwin for the muskies to roost next to.

[metlhead]

They roost? Seems like that rez has too much structure that really spreads them out

[bassquatch]

Structure: Flats, Ledges, Drop-offs, Humps, Creek channels, Points, Bedrock, etc.

Cover: Brush, Grass, Docks, Rocks, Laydowns, Lily pads, boats, anything that floats or has sank to the bottom, especially if it's on a structural element!

If you were to place 'cover' in a body of water, do it near a structural element for maximum effect! End of a point, edge of a drop off, middle of a featureless flat, near a creek channel, on top of a hump, etc! Make a much more high percentage target 

[Angry Perch]

Structure: Flats, Ledges, Drop-offs, Humps, Creek channels, Points, Bedrock, etc.

Cover: Brush, Grass, Docks, Rocks, Laydowns, Lily pads, boats, anything that floats or has sank to the bottom, especially if it's on a structural element!

If you were to place 'cover' in a body of water, do it near a structural element for maximum effect! End of a point, edge of a drop off, middle of a featureless flat, near a creek channel, on top of a hump, etc! Make a much more high percentage target 

The spot on the spot.

[bassquatch]

Amen brother! 

[Alchase]

Back in 2004, we stayed at the Sky Deck Motel on Banks Lake. We were there to fish for rainbows, and we noticed these large barges loaded with dead trees in concrete filled barrels, being towed out from the boat ramp at Banks Lake Lodge. Out of curiosity I trolled down lake following them. They were installing them in the big bay (Barker Flats?) a crossed the lake from Steamboat Rock. I ask them what they were doing, and they said they were installing Walleye habitat. Well it must have upset the trout, because we all hooked up, and limited in about an hour and a half, 

It was pretty cool to see how they mapped it all out!

[Stein]

I was diving in Flathead Lake back in the day and came across a couple bedsprings placed on edge in a popular fishing spot where the bottom came up abruptly.  They were loaded with lures and we filled up two gallon buckets pretty easily with the better ones.  I'm not sure if they got a permit or not..  After that we just revisited whenever we were running low on gear.  Never saw a fish around them, but obviously they were good at attracting fishermen.

[Alchase]

I was diving in Flathead Lake back in the day and came across a couple bedsprings placed on edge in a popular fishing spot where the bottom came up abruptly.  They were loaded with lures and we filled up two gallon buckets pretty easily with the better ones.  I'm not sure if they got a permit or not..  After that we just revisited whenever we were running low on gear.  Never saw a fish around them, but obviously they were good at attracting fishermen.

We use to do the same up at Lake Cushman. Every year they dropped the lake levels, My Uncle who worked at the dam, would let us know. We would run up the North end in the lake " we called Stump City" by the bridge. You could walk out and collect tons of gear, especially blade strings that got hung up on the stumps!