What are some submerged plants, shoreline plants and topwater plants that:
A. Dont invade your entire pond
B. Hardy
C. Can live in a Georgia climate
D. Offer good protection for baitfish
and E. Give bass or predators a hiding/striking spot
.
I'd prefer the topwater plants be in 5-1ft of water and the submerged plants to be in 3-8ft of water. Shoreline plants would be like what you see on the Bassmasters. Topwater heaven as I like to call it.

Use the search engine and put in submerged plants, etc... There is piles of info on the forum. If you can't find what you're looking for let me know.

re: submerged plants. What's your water clarity at? That might limit where your submerged plants will grow.

TAMU has a good website with different plant pictures and descriptions.

FishKeeper1:
This site may help you for finding native plants. I am researching similiar for my GA pond.

http://wetlandsupply.com/