First run in the Eatonton Messager: It has been proven that artificial fish attractors will improve your chances for catching fish. That said, why not spend some time and build your own? Creating your own fish attractors can be as simple as placing a few Christmas trees around your dock or as complex as building a large attractor made out of materials like PVC piping, and then placing that attractor in a prime location in the lake.
Around the lake over the next few weeks, you will see anglers hauling Christmas trees to the lake to create fish attractors.
There is hard work involved in collecting the trees and more work in placing the attractors in good locations.
Hopefully, the anglers will not be disappointed in either the materials they used to build the attractors or the locations where they were placed.
Placement of the Christmas trees or any other type of material to attract fish is a good idea, but you need to take into consideration the current produced by the Georgia Power pumpback in both lakes Oconee and Sinclair.
The current is especially strong in Lake Sinclair when water is dumped back into Lake Sinclair when generation at the Wallace Dam is completed.
Without properly weighting the trees or other materials, the current will move your hard work overnight.
I had to learn that hard lesson when I initially began placing fish attractors in Lake Sinclair.
Fish attractors placed in the main lake are especially vunerable to water current that is so strong it can easily move a single cinder block.
Attractors placed in coves are not as likely moved by the current, but they also need to be adequately weighted. Read the remainder of this helpful article…..
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