Asking you old timers to share your vast brush pile experience with me. Would you be so kind as to list the Do's & the Don'ts.

Looking to drop some brush piles in a small lake near me. I have been successful using willow limbs while fishing the Toledo Bend area, but I have since relocated and I don't have access to the few willows I have seen near me. Plenty bamboo, evergreens and sweet gum for the taking.

Leaning towards the sweet gum........someone please help me out here.

John 21.6: And Jesus said to them, "Throw out your nets on the right-hand side of the boat, and you will find some". So they did and they did.....find some.