Submerge your old Christmas trees: Trees make great underwater structure and can be sunk with concrete blocks, especially if you have any current like maybe a riverbank. I’ve seen...

Maximo Loc: Jupiter, Fl

Trees make great underwater structure and can be sunk with concrete blocks, especially if you have any current like maybe a riverbank. I’ve seen people collect them by the truck load for their pond, lake, etc. Put them to good use.

OJdidit Loc: Oak Creek Wisconsin

Great idea, we call them fish cribs, but make sure the water is deep enough, remove the lights, ornaments and tinsel first 😉

Jeremy Loc: America

They make good non exploding fire works too. Just light one OUTDOORS and see.

Gordon Loc: Charleston South Carolina

We use to do that in the Santee Lakes and they stopped it. Made good Crappie beds.

DrewU Loc: Waterloo ia

Jeremy wrote:

They make good non exploding fire works too. Just light one OUTDOORS and see.

I knew you were the kind of guy who has absolutely tried this I love it🇺🇸

Fredfish Loc: Prospect CT.

Maximo wrote:

Trees make great underwater structure and can be sunk with concrete blocks, especially if you have any current like maybe a riverbank. I’ve seen people collect them by the truck load for their pond, lake, etc. Put them to good use.

Maximo that is usually ok in lakes or ponds, but in rivers you can disrupt the natural flow. This can cause flooding during the rainy season, and YOU will be liable for all damages to other people's property. Along with state and federal penalties. It is illegal in my state to divert or disrupt anything bigger than a creek.
Anyone contemplating this should check your states restrictions, and save yourselves thousands of dollars.

OJdidit Loc: Oak Creek Wisconsin

You all without ice may have to work a bit harder than us. We can just drag them out on the ice, lash them together, weigh them down and they will sink to the bottom once the ice melts. Mark the spot and we have a go-to spot for next Summer panfish.
You need to be very careful to not get tangled in the rope, chain and whatever weight you use as you push it out of the boat or off the pontoon.

Maximo Loc: Jupiter, Fl

Fred’s right. You don’t back your truck up to the riverbank and dump your load of trees in the water’s edge and create a logjam. That’s not the idea. But If you got no bottom structure, there are ways of improving it. And we’re about to have a glut of dried up Christmas trees that need to be recycled. Might as well turn them into fish.

Iowa Farmer Loc: Iowa City Iowa

Maximo wrote:

Trees make great underwater structure and can be sunk with concrete blocks, especially if you have any current like maybe a riverbank. I’ve seen people collect them by the truck load for their pond, lake, etc. Put them to good use.

I've been doing that for years in my pond. Great structure.

FourchonLa. Loc: Fourchon Louisiana, South Louisiana

The trees are collected and used to slow coastal erosion down here. The branches collect and deposit sediment where the trees are placed.

Jeremy Loc: America

In Oregon most of the trees end up at Dispensaries :)

Guppy337 Loc: Lancaster PA,

Jeremy wrote:

In Oregon most of the trees end up at Dispensaries :)

😂😂😂

Big dog Loc: Bayshore, Long Island, New York

Maximo wrote:

Trees make great underwater structure and can be sunk with concrete blocks, especially if you have any current like maybe a riverbank. I’ve seen people collect them by the truck load for their pond, lake, etc. Put them to good use.

Works in the ocean too.

JohnG Loc: Long Island NY.

[quote=FourchonLa.]The trees are collected and used to slow coastal erosion down here. The branches collect and deposit sediment where the trees are placed.[/quote

I head up a small volunteer coastal conservation group here on the western tip of Long Island.

Our county Coastal and Waterways dept doesn’t want any trees used in our dunes. They state that trees washed into the ocean during major storms do great damage to commercial fishing nets and are a hazard to watercraft. Yet one town over used hundreds to rebuild after Sandy!

FixorFish Loc: SW Oregon

In southern Oregon, the Boy Scouts collect the Xmas trees and utilize them in the local lakes and on riverbanks as erosion control. The suggested donation of $5 for p/u goes to the troop for equipment and summer camp....win/win/win situation 👍.