I have used swimmer noodles to float a holding box after a year they sank. They were a Walmart special and the water or sun ate them up.

61 acre water shed lake. bass, channel cat, black crappie, wiper, walleye, redear sunfish, blue catfish and bluegill. To many bullhead and common carp
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