Hello all! My close to 3/4 acre pond is slowly filling up with the spring I have piped in and rain. A little info about the pond: It is just under 3/4 of an acre and the water you see in the middle is about 5' deep, there is no structure/cover in the middle section whatsoever. The pallet trees you see will be stuffed with dense pine branches just haven't gotten to all of them yet. I will be adding some rip rap/boulders as I have a lot lying around the property in piles, also have access to hundreds of cinder blocks but not sure i'll go to the trouble of adding many more. I've done a ton of research before digging this pond but bottom line is I have no experience ever doing this before and I realize there are many different ways to do things successfully but I am trying to give the pond the best chance of success I can. My question is I have read no more than 3-6 fish attractors per surface acre is a good rule of thumb, with that being said, fish attractors and habitat/structure are 2 different things, and I am unsure of how much cover/structure I should actually have. I read no more than 10% of the pond bottom and obviously focus on the perimeter. To the right of the pic you can not see the right corner but there are a few logs and another brush pile. I am not worried about snags as I would rather have good cover and snags are part of fishing, I have a few stump piles as well. I want to give the smaller fish/fry plenty of cover. Bottom line, my question is, does this look good enough or should I add a lot more brush piles/branches etc for cover for the smaller fish? Thanks in advance guys! Also, the middle section of the pond ranges from 10'-12' deep. I added 10 ton of pea gravel around in piles hoping to increase spawn success rate.
