I've got both a sunken island and trees in my big pond. The sunken island is basically the top of an old levee. It's about 30 inches under water at full pool. Makes for a great fishing area...slopes down pretty dramatically so you can almost always find fish there, somewhere on the slope. And when it's summer draw down time it's exposed, making a cool little area for birds to hang out. I like it.

Trees on the other hand I'm not nuts about. The whole north end of my East draw is full of standing timber. This was not intentional...the goal was to take out 70% of the trees and only leave a few standing. But we filled up too fast. I would recommend against leaving too much standing timber...makes fishing extremely difficult, especially for larger fish.

Dale

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