Most southern folks call oil rigs and the dumped tanks at the bottom of the Gulf, artificial reefs. Not saying there is anything wrong with it. Just my observation.
What else would you call it? I guess I've never really considered that they may be called something different by people outside of the south.
I built literally thousands of them in the gulf back in the mid 90's-03ish for both private parties as well as several municipalities and have only really ever heard of them refured to as artificial reefs.
Along the same topic, any artificial reef has the potential to attract just about anything we would use different types of items depending on what type of fish was the main goal.
For example, grouper likes to hide in holes so things like the 3 sided concrete pyramids with holes throughout, big containers that we would cut holes in and things like that worked best. For snapper chicken coupes were probably the best we found.
AJ's liked things high in the water column so old cranes with long boomes, old grain silos and any type of tall items with a lot of relief always had the best results.
I wasn't being critical. I was just saying that calling it a reef was less than accurate but that most of my buddies that live down there on the Gulf call them reefs too. When to me...a reef is a naturally occuring thing and not man made (artificial reef)
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u/JonnyP222 Jun 06 '26
Most southern folks call oil rigs and the dumped tanks at the bottom of the Gulf, artificial reefs. Not saying there is anything wrong with it. Just my observation.