I recently made some porcupine cribs as per the Pennsylvania Fish & Game specifications out of 2" x 2" hemlock. They sat on the ice for a month but finally have made their way to their intended home on the bottom in a place where the highest point is in 6 to 8 feet deep.
I do believe now (after looking at them sitting on the ice for a month) that they will snag a nice collection of hooks in their lifetime. Are there any special hooks or lures that are more snag resistant?
FWIW in my experience, Aberdeen hooks (the gold ones) are softer and will bend to let you release from a snag easier. If you pinch the barb down they are even more forgiving.
Tracy, I worm fish but pretty well go weightless on the ponds. It is less obtrusive and doesn't get hung up nearly as bad. A stout spinning rig is pretty much the answer for my pond bass fishing.
Last edited by Dave Davidson1; 05/12/1504:59 AM.
It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.
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The Pennsylvania fish and game commission has these plans on their site. I followed their design including making the template to start the base on. They were easy to build and I will say 2 years in they do attract fish. I mounted a foam filled plastic bottle on a line to mark each piece of structure and now I just cast over the structure or drop a line down from my boat and never suffer from lack of a hit.
I had a local sawmill cut up some hemlock into 2x2 pieces so everything went as per their plans.
I have built and placed two different cribs in the pond. One made from pvc with plastic lattice to surround it and an old used plastic Christmas tree inside the crib and the second was built using pallets with cinder blocks added as a rock pile inside the crib. I can not see under the water to see which hold more or bigger fish
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I just ordered the hemlock from a sawmill and will be building a couple of these porcupine cribs and had a question about fasteners. Should I avoid nails and/or screws and try to dowel the thing together to keep unwanted metal bits out of pond once the crib decays? Or am I overthinking this completely?