Brushpile Coordinates (Coordinates updated)

[bassboy1]

Coordinates have been confirmed and updated!
'Tis clear that nobody has been fishing them, as surely someone would have pointed out that one of the coordinates (#14) happened to take you to a stump on shore.



Anyway, as many of y'all may know, I am a Life Scout in BSA Troop 15. For my Eagle Scout project, I sought after something I could do to help the lake, or more importantly, the fish population in the lake. Mike Bucca finally came to my aid, and mentioned one thing this lake really needs - deepwater fish habitat. So, fast forward a few months, I am all cleared through USACE and DNR to place 15 of these piles in certain locations around the lake. 14 of these piles are currently in place, and the 15th one will be soon. All piles are now placed.

These piles consist of a tree (mostly sweetgum), or three, from the shoreline, lashed to cylinders of concrete, sunk at around 32 ft. at summer pool. Upon completion of the project, the coordinates will also be posted on the Georgia DNR's website, as well as a brief mention on other local fishing boards.

The coordinates for the piles are as follows:
1) Outside Glade Marina
N34* 7.398'/W84* 42.326'

2) Under the big houses between Glade and Redtop (what is that area called?)
N34* 7.879'/W84* 43.309'

3) Red Top Beach
N34* 8.944'/W84* 42.993'

4) Left of Dam
N34* 9.369'/W84* 43.415'

5) Left of Dam
M34* 9.468'/W84* 43.386'

6) Coopers Creek
N34* 10.169'/W84* 43.791'

7) Coopers Creek
N34* 10.394'/W84* 43.775'

8) Mckaskey Camp
N34* 11.398'/W84* 42.718'

9) Stamp Creek
N34* 10.539'/W84* 41.299'

10) Stamp Creek
N34* 10.850'/W84* 41.587'

11) Clear Creek
N34* 9.722'/W84* 41.347

12) Clear Creek
N34* 34* 9.893'/W84* 41.116'

13) Across from Galts
N34* 8.535'/W84* 38.899

14) Galts Clear Cut
N34* 8.645'/W84* 38.515

15) Galts Clear Cut
N34* 8.559'/W84* 38.307

Bear with me - a couple of these piles may not be on the coordinate, but will be close. One of the boats I was working with only had a handheld GPS, and no sonar, other than a depth sounder, so placing these trees was a crapshoot - the depth should be about spot on, with all of them, but the locations may be within a few ft. radius of the actual coord. If someone with SI happens to notice one of the trees off the coordinates, please send me a PM with the correct coordinate, and I will correct the above list. Three that I expect to be a little off will be #3, #7, and #10.

I would like to thank Mike Bucca for all the time he spent in helping me plan this, especially in placing the piles where they will actually hold fish ;D. He spent much more of his time helping me with this project than many, especially those as busy as him, would have.

A big thanks to RickyK for arranging to make me the concrete cylinders needed for this.

Thanks to Leapnlineman, Soretoe and Bob Smith for showing up with their boats and helping me pull these, even when the brushpile tried to make the better of them. And to pbmang for taking a Side imaging shot, and confirming the GPS location of each pile.

Thanks to Christie over at Nature's Tackle Box for agreeing to aid me with the fundraising for this project, which will hopefully happen after the first of the year.

Big thanks to Terrell Stoves for being my contact with USACE, and going well beyond the extra mile, often on his off days, in helping get approval from the higher ups in the Corps. And to Jim Hakala for being my contact with the DNR.

[hockeyruss123]

wow great job dawson!!

looks like i'm going to need some gps of some type to find these... or someone do me a favor and spray paint a big X so i can find them easier..

[bassboy1]

Dec 8, 2009 21:03:21 GMT -1 hockeyruss123 said:

looks like i'm going to need some gps of some type to find these

Shoot, same here. This goes along with the case of the "cobbler has no shoes," or "the mechanics car doesn't run." I couldn't go fish my own piles if I tried.

[soretoe]

Good job Dawson in organizing the project and thank you for letting me ba a small part of it. I have gone back to find a couple of them and think that the trees must have laid down instead of in the straigt up position like we left them.

Russ you can find them all if ya stick your head in the water while someone drives the boat.

[rangerman]

Congrats, looks like your project was a great success!
Thank You for helping assure more cover for the Allatoona fish population.

[Bob Smith (Porko)]

Great Job, Dawson. These trees have been soaking awhile now and with the winter pool coming down, I would suspect there will be some fish holding on them!! I reckon I'll just have to check them out! ;D

[wally]

You are the man! Now I need to get a boat, and a truck that could pull said boat.

Anyway, publishing numbers like you have done is pretty cool!

[hockeyruss123]

Dec 8, 2009 22:30:46 GMT -1 soretoe said:

Russ you can find them all if ya stick your head in the water while someone drives the boat.

would it be legal to fish them though??? since i didnt put them there??? lol

[Mike Bucca]

Man I thought you was gonna sit on the coordinates for a while since you hadn't posted them already . Been whacking fish on a few of them . Glad to be of help Dawson . Don't tell anyone about my tree extraction methods just kidding

Mike

[The Lone Ranger]

Wow, great project - congratulations and thanks to all who participated in this....sounds like it was a heck of a lot of work.

[leapnlineman]

Dawson best wishes with the Eagle review board. If you need any references let us know. I'm sure you will get some good ones here. I know that as a part of the Eagle Project you must raise all of the funds for the Project. Christie and I have talked over a couple of ideas for raising the funds that you need to complete the project and I think she may have spoken to you about them by now. Just let us know what you decide to do and how I can help with the fund raising.

Just want you to know that I am proud to know a fine young man like yourself and you are doing your family proud. And I know how good it can make you feel to "Give back" and "Pay it forward".

[bassboy1]

Thanks Mr. Ray. I imagine I owe a bit of credit to you too. While I didn't formally meet with you on this project (you go above and beyond on the tree cutting as it is), I'm sure you have talked with both Mike and Christie extensively, and put forth a couple ideas.

One more favor, if y'all don't mind. If y'all catch a sizeable fish off of one of these piles, will you please post a pic, or PM me a pic of it? I would like to be able to have a couple pictures of fish caught off these piles to take to the Eagle Board, just to emphasize the impact of this structure. I probably won't be sitting in front of the board until April or May, due because there is an incredible amount of other work to be done too (much of it requiring keeping a 90 day log) - the project is merely a small portion of the Eagle rank. Because I started the project when I was young enough, I still have much of this to do, whereas many do all this first, then work towards the project.

Thanks again!

Dawson