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The Christmas Tree Stand

There are many different types of Christmas trees. There are real trees, fiber optic Christmas trees, plastic trees, big ones, little ones, wide ones, skinny ones, white ones and green ones. The style of tree depends on the person but you must get the correct tree stand to go with your choice of tree. You should never skimp on the stand and you should never just use any old stand to hold up your Christmas tree. The Christmas tree stand not only provides a base for your Christmas tree but it also holds it in place, it keeps it from falling over, and it even holds water so that the tree doesn’t die prematurely. If you use the wrong type of Christmas tree stand, you run the risk of having your tree fall over and possibly onto someone. That could cause injury or even death if your tree is large enough.  So make sure you have the right Christmas tree stand before you even think of decorating that tree.

When You Buy Your Tree Ask For A Christmas Tree Stand

The thing to do when you buy your as Christmas tree is to ask the person who sold it to you if they have any accompanying Christmas tree stands. Usually places that sell Christmas trees also sell Christmas tree stands. If you are buying both tree and stand from the same place then you can get the matching stand. If they sell only tree but not the stand then discuss about the stand from the seller who sold you the tree. Then, you need to make sure you measure the tree accurately. This is very important as you want to ensure you get a stand that will hold the tree you’ve chosen.

Measuring The Tree For Christmas Tree Stand

When you measure your Christmas tree, make sure you write everything down so that you can have all the figures in front of you when you go shopping for your Christmas tree stand. Do not just rely on remembering the measurements as your memory can sometimes fail you. Write down the size of the tree, the weight of the tree and make sure you get the width as well as you’ll want a base that supports the width of tree that you’ve chosen.

The right Christmas tree stand will ensure that your tree stays upright and it will prevent you from spending all that time decorating only to have your tree fall in your living room or even onto someone. So spend some time considering your Christmas tree stand to prevent anything bad from happening to your prized Christmas tree.

Old School Crappie Fishing Family Secrets

If you want to get serious about crappie fishing and you want to catch a lot of crappie on a consistent basis then you need to have excellent crappie fishing rigs. The most common crappie fishing rig you will need to have and you will use it quite often are fishing rigs set of to catch crappie with different crappie jig presentations. You can use crappie jigs with our without live bait but sooner or later there will be a need to use a combination of artificial crappie baits combined with some type of live bait. The most common of these combinations being a crappie jig striped of any plastics combined with a live crappie minnow.

Your next step is to decide on what crappie jig you will want to use. To choose the correct crappie jig with depend on a some key factors that pertain directly to the local waters you intend to fish in. Your crappie fishing rig will change depending on what the local food source is for the crappie population you are targeting and also the season you are fishing in. To put it all together you need to do some research as to what exactly the crappies are eating on a regular basis, then you can make your crappie fishing rig selection based on this information. For example I had of this great farm pond that not many people fish in and that there was talk that this pond was full of crappie. Well the first thing I would do when arriving at the pond Is look very close at the type of bait fish I see swimming the shallows. Ok Its spring time and I notice there are just hundreds of small bluegill fry swimming around , bingo! I am going to try to match my crappie baits to look like the small bluegill fry. Actually if you had a minnow net with you The ideal bait would be to use a small crappie jig with a safety pin spinner tipped with small crappie fry. Well anyway the key here is you need to as they say “match the hatch” to be successful. I Think you will be pleasantly surprised with the results if you can design your crappie fishing rig to “match the hatch” so to speak.

Now to match the hatch takes some practice and trial and error if your first try doesn’t work try something else until you find the right combination.  One very effective way to see if your crappie bait selection is going to be effective is keep trying different presentations until you catch tow or three crappies and then go ahead and clean them , but be careful to open up their gut to see what exactly they are eating. In my example above I did exactly that. I got lucky and hit on the right combination right away and when I caught my first three crappie within minutes I checked to see what they were eating sure enough they were feeding heavy on the small bluegill fry. This technique will work on any crappie waters you intend to fish. Don’t make the mistake and not use this important tip because it can be very powerful information on you next crappie fishing trip to this area.

Please take note that the size and the color are very important when you attempt to match the hatch. If you are going to say fish only artificial jigs you need to match the size and coloration of the hatch. In my example above I chose a jig head that had a color similar to the color of the bluegill fry and the size was a 1/ 32 ounce jig size because the bluegill fry were very small. The safety pin spinner was used because the pound was weedy and the water was a bit discolored so I wanted my crappie fishing rig to have some flash so the crappie could see it, and hear the vibrations.

Well that concludes my article about Catch Crappie. Have a great day and the the best of luck to you on your next fishing trip

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