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Honestly Rick, I wouldn't bother. Your LMB and BG will spawn on their own.

I agree with Josh here - but if you really want to take on the project, creating artificial LMB and BG beds is often done and many good designs exist on the forum to provide some guidance.

One thing I am personally doing in my BG/RES reproduction pond to help stimulate a spawn is placing several "kiddie pools" - the plastic baby wading pools, and filling them with pea gravel and sand.

I believe LMB also like prepared beds much like a SMB - and I have too much experience constructing the latter. Many designs available on the forum for bed construction.

Good luck let us know what you end up doing!

I built a small floatable island this weekend for my little 3/4 acre pond. Used the garlin and let mom do the the top with fake flower from hobby lobby. Hope this give a little coverage for the frys after spawning.

Kinda looks like a floating casket. But old will if it get them coverage them I'll tell everyone it the guy that I caught fishing my pond with out asking.

I laughed.

What about the picture of the roaming plastic chair?

Another good idea using artificial plants on the island, then my island can bloom all year even at 20 below.

Personally, I prefer the real thing, but I certainly realize the difference in work that would be.

Building a copy of this over the coming weekend for my 50 year old well established farm pond. These are heavyweights at 60 lbs of concrete and was thinking about using half the concrete (30 lbs.) and then taking treated lumber (1 x 6) and attaching a cross (X) of that lumber to the bottom of the bucket (before putting in the concrete). Each leg of the cross would be 2 feet (cut an 8 foot 1 x 6 into four pieces). Would certainly be easier when lowering over the side of a john boat at the appropriate location but would it be steady enough not to tip over once it is in the water and on the bottom? Soft muddy bottom for most of our old farm pond. Should the cross lumber on the bottom be longer than 2 ft? Thoughts? Thanks...first time poster/new PB subscriber....wish I would have stumbled on PB and this forum years ago.

Stick a piece of rebar out of the bottom 24" or so (depending on how far it'll sink into the bottom) and use it as a spike to hold the thing upright?