What would you do to help Cumberland?

[Basswipe]

I don't fish Cumberland, but from an outside view, it seems that the best and most simple thing folks could would be to build brush piles while the water is down.

KDFWR has projects on other lakes to where people volunteer to help build brush piles when the lakes are at winter pool. There is another thread going on the board about such a project happening at Barren in a few weeks.

I manage 500 acres in Western Hardin County. The property has a few thousand small cedar trees (5-8 feet tall) in various fields. KDFWR is coming this friday to take a load of them for building brush piles on Nolin and Rough. If anyone wants to take some of them for building brush piles on C'land, get in touch with me. You can have all of them that you're willing to cut and take.

[muzzy125acc]

i feel like cumberland does need more underwater structure. Now would be the time but it would be rotted by the time we get to fish them....LOL... Sounds like a great ideal

[CreatureBaitz]

It seems like every year Kentucky has a major tornado or two somewhere. I wonder if it would be possible to aquire some of the old building material debris and use it to build fish structure. A couple years ago a tornado hit Madisonville Ky. and wiped out an entire lumber yard. Truckload after truckload of lumber was hauled to a landfill and buried.

[jcb]

My spidey sense tells me that there would be some pretty serious resistance to using treated lumber.

[CreatureBaitz]

The environ-MENTAL-ists might not like it but the fish dont mind it one bit. We used five twenty foot trailer loads of it to build structure for a buddies private strip pit lake and the fish hold to it real good.