You may want to install some artificial cover like some of the platic trees that some of the others talk about on other posts.

Another piece of advice. If you want to build a dock, do it now. I still have plans to do it but our pond filled so fast that I never got to it so now I need to do it while it is full. Would be easier before hand to set posts while you are on dry land.

A friend of mine said that I can use 5 gallon spackle buckets filled with concrete and that a dock will do well with that kind of support too. Any advice from some of you out there?