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[Andrews]

Bream beds and bream habitat. Trying to get some ideas on how to set up something up for them thanks in advance.

[sharphook]

Pea gravel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Place on hard most accessible bottom!!!

[sharphook]

If possible put out some fertilizer for fish waters starting when water temperature is 60 degrees!!

[Andrews]

Does the pea gravel need to stake beds, c tress, bamboo, ect for cover?

[Andrews]

This work will be done on lake St. John in ferriday la. Our lake committee is wanting to put togather a habitat day with limited resources. I don't think fertilize is in our budget.

[INTIMIDATOR]

This work will be done on lake St. John in ferriday la. Our lake committee is wanting to put togather a habitat day with limited resources. I don't think fertilize is in our budget.

If you do what we talked about you will be fine!
Your Oxbow has everything needed (Gravel/sand) for spawning, the thing it doesn't have is "Protection" cover...once you start loading up the shallows with dense/tight cover, the survival rate of the Bream and other fry will improve, then you work on medium dense cover close by. The cover will help take care of the Pelican Problem also!
If the Oxbow has weeds/vegetation, that's where the bigger Bream fish will head...the BIG BULLS will be in the deepest water since they really don't have predators!
I don't know if I would do anything to the Cypress side of the lake, except fill in any holes or bare areas!

[sharphook]

Tree cover in spring bedding shallows for fry. Beddin will be vastly improved with pea gravel beds. Fertilizer can be placed in remote dead water area of the lake. Same principle as baiting deer. The fish will come to fertile area because of increase in plankton quality for food sources.
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[Andrews]

95 percent of the lake bottom is silted over from ag fields, there is very littel sand on bottom and very littel grass. Just mud, what is a good fertilize?

[Andrews]

We will be putting in new gravel beds and sand bed areas

[INTIMIDATOR]

95 percent of the lake bottom is silted over from ag fields, there is very littel sand on bottom and very littel grass. Just mud, what is a good fertilize?

You have plenty of fertilizer with the Ag run-off! You get TOO much and you will have ALGAE BLOOMS like us here in the North...trust me they are bad...AND SMELL!
The PH levels should be OK with the fert and the cypress, they should balance out each other!
If it is OK with the Committee, you can plant vegetation in shallow coves that are close to deep water...the deep water will keep them contained.