We take our tree down before New Year's Day. I do a fir tree, or sometimes a young Cedar, taken from my property ...
After the tree has done its holiday duty I put the drying corpse into my pond as a Crappie bed...the Fir breaks down by the time the fish are ready to spawn & the debris makes a great shelter for the eggs & hatchlings...
The Cedar needs a year to decompose, creating a structured 'home' for both the Crappie & Bass ... Both of which live-feed. On the other's hatchlings but the tree provides the babies hideouts so that enough survive to grow my fish population...
We take our tree down before New Year's Day. I do a fir tree, or sometimes a young Cedar, taken from my property ...
After the tree has done its holiday duty I put the drying corpse into my pond as a Crappie bed...the Fir breaks down by the time the fish are ready to spawn & the debris makes a great shelter for the eggs & hatchlings...
The Cedar needs a year to decompose, creating a structured 'home' for both the Crappie & Bass ... Both of which live-feed. On the other's hatchlings but the tree provides the babies hideouts so that enough survive to grow my fish population...