I have a rookie question.

Some of the best bass fishing lakes in the
world are flooded timber lakes.

So why is it that you rarely see private lakes that
are mostly flooded timber? Is it because most private
lakes have to be dug out holes which makes leaving trees
pretty difficult to do? I read where people say
"well I got all my timber cleared out/cut for the pond
that I am putting in". Then you see them a year later
dropping Christmas trees in where they cut all the timber.
Why not just leave the timber from the start? Again
"rookie question" so I know there are must be many valid
reasons people wouldn't want a private lake of mostly
flooded timber, but it seems at least some would want
at last half flooded heavy timber and it appears to me
that not 1 in a 100 private lakes are built that way.
Experts..why is that?






Fishing has never been about the fish....