Several bundles of PVC pipe will now play a helpful role in fishing instead of wasting away in a landfill in southwest Arkansas.
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission fisheries biologists recently added several large fish habitat structures in Lake Millwood built of leftover pipe destined for the dump.
Colton Dennis, fisheries habitat biologist for Game and Fish in south Arkansas, worked with several fiber optic contractors in the area who were laying long-lasting PVC pipe to house underground transmission lines along highways to rural Arkansas communities.
“The pipe comes in large spools and we asked what they were doing with any scrap pipe left over at the end of a run,” Dennis said. “When they told us they were just hauling it to a local landfill if it couldn’t be used, we spotted an opportunity.”
Dennis said many contractors agreed to leave any of these leftover sections in their local equipment yard until Game and Fish staff could get out to pick it up.
“We cut the pipe into 6-foot sections and drill holes in it to help it sink,” Dennis said. “Then we construct complex cover filled with vertical and horizontal “limbs” to attract fish. The whole structure is anchored with concrete to keep it in place.”
Although Millwood is known for having many stumps, these large attractors offer many more spaces for bait fish to hide and predator fish to wait in ambush. These structures also are attractive to fish because they offer a different type of cover than much of their surroundings.
The PVC used in these structures is an inert material that lasts for decades and doesn’t harm the environment where it is placed.
Visit www.agfc.com/maps to learn the locations of these and the thousands of other fish attractors placed throughout the state by Game and Fish.
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