On that smaller rock pile, consider lifting it on top of cinder blocks and spread out the size or area that it covers or on top of several pallets. Almost every manufacturer or small company has many pallets for free. Just as for permission for getting them. Tree tops could be laid horizontal on the bottoms of the rocks to hold the brush down to keep the brush in place from floating lose in the pond. IMO you want the rock piles to sort of serve as weed beds or large dense structures as refugia areas and not to serve as small fish attractor structures. Small structures actually concentrate predators who eat many of the fish that come close to it for protection. Refugia are large expansive areas such as lake weed beds that provide protection for thousands & thousands of small fish.
If you are using FHM I would lay those flat pieces of concrete on top of one layer of rocks spread out among 5 -10+ pallets so the concrete pieces have lots of various types of elevated angled pieces; some even vertical. Lots of jagged pieces angling upwards; a city of upward angling irregularities. Be creative.
Search this topic in In-Fisherman website:
Habitat and the Importance of Structure By Dr. Hal Schramm
April 15, 2021
Last edited by Bill Cody; 02/10/25 08:05 PM.
