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Bill, I wired down all the logs with fence wire attached to one or two metal stakes driven a foot or so into the ground. The water is now rising to submerge some logs so we’ll know soon.

My philosophy was to restrain them enough so they wouldn't wander far but not to hold them fast. Most of them are a couple feet from the surface, sitting near a possible spawning site, so I am OK if part or all of a given log sits at the surface until it gets water logged. I have attached a photo of one such set of logs. The attachment is not beautiful but you can see one of the steel rods where the wire is attached, the other rod being behind the logs. If someone has done this a better way I would be glad to see it. I worked with what I had.