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I received my Green River "Fish Attractor Map" today from the tourism dept and after looking it over, was quite impressed with the information on it. They have 3 different types of fish attractors marked. Now I do know what a brush pile is, but there are also stake beds (?) marked and Hinge Cuts (?) marked. Can anyone explain to me what the stake beds and hinge cust are?
Stake Beds could simply be 5-gal bucket of concrete w/PVC pipe stuck in holes cut through out the bucket.
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I have been told it is sunken brush piles.
i think i seen them and they look like a bunch of sticks bundled together kinda like bamboo sticks. seen them when the water was down in the back of a couple creeks.
Stake beds are scrap pieces of lumber from a saw mill. The lumber varies in width and lenght but most all of them are 1"thick. The stakes are anywhere from 3" to 5" in width and vary in length from 4-6ft. They were drove down into ground. Most stake beds that I am aware of have been put in for 2-3 years and seem to be in good shape. The area a stake bed covers vary in size. Most are usually 10 ft X 10 ft in diamaiter with 20-30 stakes. There is a few that are larger and a few smalller.
A Hinge cut is a tree that was cut near the bank. The tree falls into the water and is secured at the stump buy a cable so the tree does not wash away. They last until the tree limbs rot. I know of a couple hinge cuts that are about 5-6 years old and are still in good shape.
Stake beds and hinge cuts do get a lot of fishing pressure. Anybody that can read a map can find them.
Stake beds look like the spikes on a hair brush sticking up out of the lake bottom. Brush piles are obviously just piles of anchored brush. Hinge-cuts are just cut and toppled trees (consider cutting a tree 3/4 of the way through at waist height and pushing it over).