Pond Boss Forums POND CONSTRUCTION Creating habitat how much cover?

I don't really know the solid answer to this, Greg, but from my reading here, the suggestions are pretty consistent with NOT going hog-wild on cover (unlike what your prize pig did to that rattler!), but instead focusing on maybe 3 or 4 areas (I think - someone please correct me if I'm way off base on that number). Probably more importantly is the creation of "highways" that allow the fish to travel from one area of cover to another, in progressively deeper water, with relative ease. In other words, keep your structure items within striking distance of one another, starting shallow and working deeper, perhaps down to 8-10 feet or so. Since you have that much water loss, you may want to use something in the shallower levels that doesn't look ugly sitting there on the dried up part of the pond, but also may want to consider one additional level of depth for adding structure so that you still have the same basic setup in place once the water drops. There are some pretty good threads on this on the site, so you may want to search for them or someone may post some links. I'll see if I can find any and post them for you as well.

Here are some links that might give you a better idea, Greg:

Structure 1

Structure 2

Structure 3