Homemade artificial reef

[Mark]

How do Shimano Stradic's do as artificial reefs? I've willfully added more than a couple to the bottom [img]/forum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[wavelength]

I wish we had the depth here to sink a ship! Where I live, check out the 11408 chart, is very shallow and if you find a ledge or a washer it will hold grouper in the summer. Our average in depth is 1 foot deeper for every mile you go offshore. The bottom is very flat and mostly sand between the Barge Canal and Cedar Key so once you get a pile going it attracts. If I want to fish 35 feet of water I have to travel 28 to 29 miles out with the price of gas and my 225 Johnson closer is better.

[JohnB]

The barge made it through all the hurricanes, and sat floating for about a couple of years. I think it would make the trip . Anyways, they cut it up for scrap and it will come back as a honda.

[Fishjack]

Here are some APCs that the MS Gulf Fishing Banks put down a while back...

APC Reefs

[Briguy]

After thinking about this for a while, shopping carts would easily snag hooks. I think I'll begin building a reef this year for sheepshead/winter grouper fishing. Thanks for all the input.