Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Christmas Tree location

Yes, I would not leave 50' of open water from shallow shoreline vegetation areas out to the brush piles...that's a lot of exposure to predation swimming out to the brush and back to the shoreline vegetation for feeding of invertabrates. Would likely take a beating - might be setting up the forage for major damage. I like the idea of placing trees from shoreline out to deeper water - like a finger - maybe with a T on the end. Allows them a safe highway of travel with limited exposure. Experiment with placement and map how you situate the brush piles. Some designs will hold more BG than others, then you retrace your steps, refer to the map, extrapolate data and determine what characteristics made the structure more or less successful. You'll likely arrive at a pattern and depth configuration that will prove the most successful model - then use that moving forward.