Green versus dead dry cedar trees is going to make a pretty good difference.
Usually around here, an old strip pit that we maintain for the city, the city just doesn't know it, we take a cedar tree and whack it off and let it roll down the hill into the pond, usually the whole thing pretty much sinks except for the biggest butt end of the stump, which makes a perfect marker. and the tree winds up upside down in the water.
Catch tons of fish off of them, they hold a bunch of baitfish.
