I nearly forgot to mention this.
Many of you may not often visit stores like Big Lots, Dollar Store, General Dollar, etc. But for those who do not have fresh bamboo available and are neat freaks and don't even have any scrap PVC, etc laying around, here are some possibilities.
I found dry bamboo very cheap at several of these stores in the flower, craft sections.
I even found some really cheap at Steinmart on clearance sale. Two 5" pieces for less than $2.
Other neat things available there were tufts of plastic grasslike material which is thin, plastic and about 18" high. Going to stick a few of these in at the base of some of the structures we build to see how they do. We have a sizeable nutrea population that keeps most of what little grass we have cleared out, but maybe they won't like the "flavor" of this and it will give the bitty bait fish a hidie hole.
Boy, there is no end to the ideas.
Again, good fishing to all of you and if any of you are from around here, keep me posted and I will do the same.