Pond Boss Forums POND CONSTRUCTION Creating habitat Bamboo Good or Bad?

I have made a couple of bamboo brush piles in a small lake and they worked good for about a month. I caught a some crappie not even a week after they was out. Then I went back to fish them about a month later and couldn't even find them on my fish finder(Lowrance HDS5). Has anyone ever tried this in a pond or had this happen to them. I was thinking about making one in my pond and looking for some ideas on how to make them?

I've never tried Bamboo.

I would think bamboo is not the greatest thing to use mainly because of it's short term ability to stay around. The majority of the plant is hollow. And the strength of it is when it is living. Dead material untreated just rots out fast. I have solid branches the same diameter of bamboo that barely last two season. Xmas trees are similar, by the third season you have the trunk. I have had dried and treated bamboo poles last for decades. Wet and untreated that naturally fell into a part time water ditch gone in a season.

Yea this was the first time I had tried bamboo. The best thing i have ever used was pin oaks and beach nut limbs stuck down in a cinder block. It will stay there and attract fish quickly. The only thing about Xmas trees and cider trees the fish wont get on them with them being green. You have to burn them or let them dry out and they still don't last as long as a hardwood. I've never used any PVC do yall have any ideas on how to make them. If they work good i would like to put some in my pond.

I have had my best luck with hardwood limbs as well. There are many excellent threads with PVC designs and techniques but alas work beckons me. I too am experimenting there. I will try my own PVC trees soon. Out.

http://www.actionfishingtrips.com/habitat.htm
I haven't tried this yet.

The ones on that site with the concrete blocks laying on there side with the bamboo going threw them is the way I made mine. They are very hard to put in the water by yourself make sure you have some help and like i said they will come to it fast and it makes a nice brush pile. Also make sure you have enough weight on them I have seen them float two cinder blocks.