Crib Clusters?

[so-mn-icer]

Question from a newbie here, hope you don't mind!

I am heading up to URL this Friday for the first time and have recently picked up a Lowrance H20C GPS unit with Lake Master software.  While scouting around on URL I noticed 4 different areas marked as 'crib clusters.'  Can any one offer me any insight as to what these are?  Just curious.  Thanks!

[Desperado]

This explains it better than I can.  Plus there's some cool pictures.  If you get up to Waskish, stop into Westwinds and look at the pictures on their walls  ( in the hall between the dining area and the bathrooms).  They have the coolest pictoral documentation of the entire process.

anyhow here's the link for a good understanding of the cribs
http://www.upperredlakeassn.com/crappie_fishing_project.htm

[JD]

They areas where brush, logs, etc., were placed under water to attract crappies. 

[so-mn-icer]

Thanks for all the great feedback! 

Are these areas that you can fish around than or are there restrictions?

[GRIZ]

Yes you can fish them.

[TNT]

8)
Just don't get caught opening the cribs and letting the crappies out, big trouble.

[cookie]

The cribs can be very productive in the summer months if you fish them right? It seems the walleye hang by them more in the winter.I've never fished the one's on the north shore in the winter but would think a guy could find crappie by them.When the lake was over flowing with crappie we hammered them on the cribs in march but that only happened one time and that was 5 years ago.

[jigglestick]

cookie do you remember what year the north cluster was put in?

[ScottPugh]

cookie do you remember what year the north cluster was put in?

I believe 2001.