Quote Originally Posted by scrat View Post
In my opinion anything that the fish can get in or around is better than nothing as long as it won't hurt the fish like treated lumber, walnut, or other toxic materials. It don't matter if it lasts a year or a lifetime it is still better to place some fish habitat than to not have it if the lake needs it or not. Dense habitat will hold small fish,crayfish,water bugs,frogs,frog eggs,etc. which is food to bigger fish. If you have the food the big fish will come to supper for sure. I think large fish structure-habitat is somewhat used for shade mostly as well as ambush sites for larger fish. But to my notion if small fish habitat is less important, then the eco environment is going to get out of balance and if you don't have the small fish after awhile you won't have any big ones either. This is just my 2 cents worth of thinking and it won't cost you nothing.
Fish habitat "Build it and they will come"
There aren't many of us who are about building an underwater ecosystem....we did it to save and build our home lake.
Most could care less and only want to build a honey hole for themselves....for those they have all the info that they need!