You might want to wedge something in between the beads in two or three places. Depending on how stiff the sidewalls are of the tractor tires, laying horizontally, the opening may tend to collapse some. Wedging two or three concrete blocks, bricks or something of that nature will make sure the tires keep their shape better.
Also setting the tire laying flat on the bottom on three or four concrete blocks will keep it from being lost in the muck in a few years. It is surprising how quick six inches of light fluffy muck develops on a pond bottom. Concrete blocks are cheap and last forever.
Another thing that will help the tires hold fish is to have some dense cover in and around the tires. Like a cedar or old Christmas tree. Dense cover will hold small fish. Small fish attract medium size fish that will use the tires that will attract even larger fish to eat the medium size fish.
Something else to think about is making a "fish highway" out to that cover. If small fish have a way of safely traveling from the shore line, where they like to feed, out to your tire pile they will be more likely to use it. If small fish use it, it will attract larger fish. Maybe some rock piles, block piles, Christmas trees, etc making a path out to the tires. This is something I did not know about when I did my structure/cover and wish I would have done more of it. I did like you are doing, just put independent "islands" of cover. Giving small fish relative safe passage to and from cover areas will make them more likely to utilize it. Small fish attract big fish.
The way you have it will work fine. Just some of my ideas that would make it better.
Last edited by snrub; 11/16/17 07:30 PM.
