Hello All,
I am hoping for a little help on placement and design of some fish structure I am about to make for my pond. I live on a ~3 acre pond that has a very healthy bluegill population and some decent 4-5 lb Largemouth bass. We also have ~3-4lb brown bullheads and crappie. My end of the pond is about 5-6ft deep and the far end gets down to about 17ft. The bottom is pretty mucky, the ponds were built in the 50’s-60’s to the best of my knowledge. My goals are to create additional structure to help with the BG and potentially give crawfish a place to take hold. I have tried trapping crawfish several times with no luck, I think there is just not enough cover for them to escape the bass. I can fill up my minnow traps in no time with BG which I then use to fish for LMB.
I have already created about 10 pvc spike attractors like these:
I placed them where the white lines are on this picture of my dock:
I got my hands on about 12 of these plastic pallets at work, I was thinking of zip tying them together like this to sink and give fish some cover.
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And advice on how to tie them (stacked bottom to bottom like 1st pic vs in a stack like 2nd pic) or where to sink them? I was thinking of putting a couple directly under the dock to hold BG and then a few out in the deeper water so the fish can move from structure to structure as the water temps change. Any advice is welcome, thanks in advance!
