I should have also mentioned that just outside the inlet/creek channel, it immediately gets quite wide and shallow so, that is also the primary areas where my forage fish propogate - also a spawning area for almost all my fish. Lots of grass/weed beds, humps, stumps, blowdowns, channels - it's almost unfishable back in that area other than topwater baits.

There wouldn't be any danger of stopping the flow altogether because that whole area is low and swampy so, the water could easily bypass the bales if they clogged the main channel.

If you're too scared to throw that bait where the fish are, why did you tie it on?