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1" and 1/2"

Sinking all these this weekend or tonight.. What's you guys suggestions on best locations.. Also I have some standing dead trees about 30-50' tall I'm thinking about cutting down and putting in the pond any thoughts on this...

2-6' is the general depth suggestion.

Thanks I was thinking around 6'..

Should one consider putting anything in the deepest part of their pond?

I think ours is around 10-12 feet at max depth and just wondered what if anything should be placed in that area?

I was thinking of making a couple bundles for out in deep water during the winter. I figured what the heck can't possibly hurt anything. What about thoughts on trees anyone have experience with this?

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Well we all know that LMB love logs and trees are natural in lakes.

But they are also a pain to get hung up in and they eventually rot.

Now I have trees in mine but they were either left there after they made the pond or fell in once it filled with water.

I say it is better than nothing but you have the others you plan to sink.

IMO it will not hurt anything, and is ultimately up to you to decide.

I would like to hear some other downsides to adding trees.

So when placing these should they be fully submerged or leave some sticking out of the water?

MRHELLO, what would be the point of leaving them sticking out of the water?

To help locate them.

I just thought some may be sticking out of the water if placed in only 2'.

Incidentally maybe, but not on purpose. Fish can't use structure if it's not underwater. Shade I suppose….

So would it be safe to say that the top of the structure should be at least 2 feet deep?

Yes, taking into account water fluctuation. Place structure where you know the fish will be. More often than not, BG and LMB types are in that 2-6' range. Obviously, under certain circumstances, bugs falling on the surface, warmer water being deeper, etc., they will be at different depths, but the 2-6' scale is typically suggested.

That is probably why I can not catch the BG or LMB if they are in those depths.

As the GSF are on the top and get first dibs on all that falls in the water.

I was gonna go with about 6' depth leaving about 2 1/2' of water on top of my structure incase of drought. My lake has exactly no cover. Only cover is primrose and a floating Xmas tree someone threw in there years ago. Eventually I would like to make about 6-8 of these plastic structure areas in 4-6 of water then 5 or 6 in deep water along with putting in some dead trees in a couple coves. One thing I've never been able to find where the fish are spawning or making beds I have a good idea bit it's on the deepest side of te lake on a hard slope any thoughts on this?

You should cover all depths (fish go deep in winter , late fall and spring) on the best locations. See the archive on fish and structure.

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Well didn't get anything accomplished this weekend, my wides uncle had a strike Friday then they found cancer on his lung and 2 cancerous tumors on his brain, then Saturday had too trench in all my gutter tiles (2000') didn't get done with that until dark last night. Although Friday I did get out in the boat and get some depth measurements, I'm on the shallow end of the pond ranging from 2-6' I was amazed at how clear my water is in the shallow I could see bottom clearly at 3' then started to lose sight about 4' seen lots a fish and found some bedding areas but I don't think their that productive being on the side that gets most of te runoff. Got most of my depths read on the shallow end going to start on the deep end tonight. Looks like my end being so shallow I'm going to have to come up with some different structure ideas any thoughts.?

I like the structure you have built yourself better than the porcupine structure. I have placed a lot of the porcupine structures and have not ever caught a fish off of one. They have been in the water for about seven months.

Thanks,
After putting a couple porcupines together i realized they arent actually that much cover, although they are better than nothing. And when i made mine i was thinking i had deeper water on my end of the lake it only averages from 2-4'. Now i know so im gonna make some low profile structures next.. I still have not got to measure the depth on the the other side of the pond. Ill get that probably friday night and for sure get these structures sunk this weekend.. My mom seen these and said jeez those are gonna look god awful around your pond. I said mom they go under water, like i would actually landscape my pond with these..?

Finally got these sunk this weekend.. I was kinda surprised how much area I was ale to cover with these. I spread them out in kinds a zig zag tree line formation in 6-7' of water it covered an area of about 20' wide by 60'-75' long. I offset them by about 5' and spread them about 5-6' apart also in this adventure I found that my pond has some hollow out big tree stumps I found 3 close to bank not sure if there is more but they looked like good structure. Still have to add the porcupines in the same general area in all I should have about 30x100' of nice cover in 6-8' of water. I will be building a bunch more of these for sure. I dropped them off the boat they sunk perfectly then I used the paddle to smash the base down into the mud as far as possible.. I think I am going to add some dead trees by just laying them over in some of the coves and keeping the base up close to bank to kinda anchor.. I have a bunch of standing dead hickory trees that are almost barkless and unbleached that should work pretty good.. Well just wanted to give an update on this thanks for the help guys..

Built 3 more last night to sink this weekend..

Hello, I am a new user on here. just found this web site while trying to build structure for my ne pond I dug in August and am very happy with all the info on here. I made some of the porcupine structures out of bowling balls and 1/2 inch eletrical conduit. they turned out great. I found the idea from a post from 2006 that was on here. will try to post pics later tonight. very happy with them at 4 to 6 bucks a peice! i made 6 of them in 4 hours.

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