Now you know a lot of people will tell you that a Christmas tree or a small pine tree is the best crappy brushpile that you can make and that's what everybody sets But what I want to kind of show you all today and kind of explain is You know Christmas trees do work. Don't get me wrong. You know, I'm not you know saying I ain't never set Christmas trees and call fish off of them because I have and Normally you can get Christmas trees at the end of the season for like a dollar a piece. So it's a very You know cost-efficient way to set brushpiles You know unless you've got somebody that has a lot of fiber optic PVC pipes that you're able to get or if you're like me and we have an abundant of trees that We could take out and set brushpiles and I just kind of want to explain my reasoning for not Really liking Christmas trees and then explain You know the type of tree that I look for when I want to make the perfect crappy brushpile So I'll say to them. We're gonna do a little bit of deer scouting while I talk and I'm gonna try to tune y'all into it Okay, so So right here we have what is essentially you know a Christmas tree now it is summertime and this tree looks like crap no getting me wrong But and you know if you get a full-blown Christmas tree the whole tree is nothing but limbs all the way down to the trunk for the most part you have like a gap Right at the bottom Now the way crappy set up on brushpiles is normally They're either suspended on top of the brushpile or they're suspended around the brushpile But where do the baitfish to spin and it's kind of what you know Keep me into all this is Where are these baitfish to spinning on this brushpile? You know a crappy is a ambush predator and What I mean by that we all know that crappy feed up So if they're suspended around this brushpile and And all the bait is sitting on top of the brushpile These crappy want to be under the brushpile in the brushpile and You know they don't want to be you know because I mean they're vulnerable to bass and catfish and Striper even On these brushpiles so when you have a Christmas tree that looks like the one right here You know there's too many limbs for this tree to be able to provide good enough ambush points and good enough Protection from bigger predators to have a lot of crappy in this brush Now if you set this Christmas tree out you would eventually have some sort of panfish whether it's bluegill or crappy suspended around this tree But at the same time What if you could have more That's kind of the whole idea Around this video because you know a Christmas tree is only You know normally around five to seven foot tall Now me personally I'm six foot tall So if I stand next to this tree right here This is about how tall a Christmas tree would be But now if we look at this tree in a bigger picture It would go all the way up and that's probably around 14 foot tall But if you pay close attention there is More limbs at the top of this tree than at the bottom Now am I saying I want a 14 foot tall brushpile? No, I'm not saying that but what I am saying is I could cut this tree down measure it out And I can make this tree 8 foot tall It doesn't matter what type of tree it is As long as it's not a pine tree I do not enjoy pine trees But take for instance this little sapling right here Now if we cut this tree down all the limbs All right the top of this tree right here And when it gets down to the bottom there's no limbs So what's gonna happen is if you if I would set this out on on a cement block and This tree is probably 8 foot tall so I would probably set it in 12 to 15 foot of water And what would happen is the crappy what's to spend under All this stuff under this limb right here Under this limb in between these limbs and the baitfish Will be up top and in between all this and what's gonna happen is There's gonna be a bigger ecosystem to this brushpile Then a Christmas tree could provide Now I'm hoping that makes sense for y'all But let's take this tree right here for instance You've got some limbs at the bottom, but the more you go up The more limbs you have so they have a place to hide now the trees are showing really aren't the best Because this is a dense forest Or whatever you call it So I'm gonna try to find the perfect brushpile tree So what we have here you have a pretty you know, it's about this wide tree right here Now what I like about this tree is there's no limbs at least four foot from the top That gives them a place to go up under the tree and actually suspend where they need to be suspended Now at the further you go up The more limbs they are The more chances you've got baitfish in here and the fish is able to ambush up into the baitfish And that's really What the main thing I I'm trying to explain here is when you have a full Christmas tree the sitting on the bottom The crappy don't have anywhere to go into there to ambush You know, there's a few of them that can fit in there That's why you'll have you know 10 or 15 fish per pile But if you take trees like the ones I'm explaining and you put them in One coherent area, you know, you want to put bottles and stuff on the top of the limbs to make sure they float straight up That's when you're gonna get your huge population of crappy Because they're gonna have ample places to go up under these limbs and suspend Do their thing and when they're hungry, they're gonna come out and And ambush and then you know, they're gonna suspend around it also just like a regular Christmas tree So that's kind of what I wanted to explain on today's video is my thoughts on You know stop thinking so many Christmas trees because Almost any other wooded area are gonna give you better trees and if you don't have them Make PVC pipes the same way you take old PVC pipes Put them in a bucket and make a tree out of them, but you want places for the crappy to go up under the PVC pipe and then have places for the baitfish to go up top and I mean you're out there making a family of Fish pretty much like a school and then you go catch them and then feed your family site to circle a life got