Wow...thanks for all the responses! I'll try to answer the questions posed in the responses...

-A pond liner would be too expensive

-The kiddie pool would not fly with the HOA.

-I would do this at my shoreline only. I did notice some beds very close to the area I'm thinking about doing this to.

I'll look this spring to see if they are indeed spawning in the area I'm thinking about enhancing. I have a 2ft high wall at my shoreline so the blocks wouldn't show. If you go walking out my back door you walk through grass to a sea/pond wall then about 1 ft of water on the other side of the wall. And of course it gets deeper as you go out in the water. I think I could make it look very clean looking. If I use a plastic with nice looking pebble on top it would look fine (I hope).

The area I'm thinking about doing this too only gets minimal shade so that concerns me a little. I would make the spawning table about 20 ft wide by 6 feet out from the wall. The water depth would vary from 1 ft to 4 ft of water.

Thoughts?

I want to grow 10 lb'ers!!!