Friend of mine gave me an absolutely wonderful idea, one that is so simple I hit myself on the forehead and said, "Why didn't *I* think of that?!"
If you happen to be short on vegetation or if you want to nuke all your vegetation and still have some plant-like cover for forage fish, this is for you.
Take a plastic garbage bag. Throw a brick or two (or rock, or cinder block, or whatever) in the bottom. Cut the top (open) end down toward the bottom in strips (whatever width you wish). Dump in lake.
The plastic strips will undulate, algae will grow on said plastic strips, hooks and lures rip through without snags. Presto! Cost is next to nothing, effort required is next to nothing.
