Pond Boss Forums POND CONSTRUCTION Creating habitat Perch, Walleye structure?

I understand the perch structure very well and have been working on making some for our pond, but what about walleye?

We plan on adding some walleye later to keep the perch in check but would like to keep them happy. We will be aerating the pond 12 hours at night every night year round. Before the pond fills we are thinking of making some deep water structure for the perch to winter and walleye as well.

Looking at a PVC tree of some sort. Maybe some 4" with 2" then some good old 1/2" black pipe for smaller branches. I am just guessing that the walleye are just bigger perch and would like any tree like structure just deeper water.

Thoughts and tips? That structure archive is sick with tones and tones of info. Just if it was species specific.

One other questions as well. We have a camp on a lake with both fish. The lake is very very big and man made. The water is tea stained with much much sediment on the bottom. Would it be worth to aerate by our dock and what types of structure could we add to the dock area to increase our walleye catch right off the dock? It is very deep starts off at 6 feet and is a 1:1 slope out 45 feet right off the dock.

Thanks Don.

Few pictures of our pond at home. Just got 2"s of rain and was going to start the rip rap tomorrow. Can't get the trucks close to the pond to dump the stone.

What a great looking fishing lake!
I love rhe ridge/road in the center, great spot for some structure.
We have had much success with our wide limbed models for the walleye.
The bolders are another great source of inert substrate to grow bio-film and phyto-plankton. The pvc will produce food for your fish as well.

I prefer very limited structure in the deep water where you will be ice or summer fishing because this will allow larger fish to entangle your fish line thus loosing the fish and lure. IMO place most of your 'branchy' structure in shallower water for the smaller fish as refuge areas from larger fish. As far as locating fish to catch in deeper water in winter, where can they go to not be found in the belly of a 0.5 acre pond? Finding YP that are abundant in a 0.5 ac pond is not very difficult. Aerating both basins in winter will limit ice fishing. I would consider aerating only the one shallower basin in winter.

Great info Bill. I did think about this but was not quite sure. I will focus the structure from 0-each deep part running on and down the sides of my center ridge left in the pond. What rock I have we will pile up in the deeper ends and leave it.

This should give us some areas to cast along and pull into the deeper areas in the summer for fishing.

Thanks again for your expertise.
Cody says - Having those smaller two basins, it will not take a lot of aeration for very long to daily mix each of those basins. Try mixing in the dark hours to maintain cooler water it you try trout. Monitor the depth temps and mixing times.

I agree that such artificial structure might be annoying after some lost lures/fish. I don't see any need of that. In "real life" fish often don't have any complex structure "down there". Some vegetation or a small stone may be everything they got but anyway they live well.

A large perch likes to live in depth but not on the flat ground - it prefers rapid ground change from deep to more shallow and it lives there. Theoretically you should have a pond with not flat bottom and everything could be fine. At least it works for normal lakes...

P.S. Same with zander (probably with walleye ).