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StructureSpot is a field guide to fish habitat. Learn what works, choose the right habitat for your goals, and build a better fishery.

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Small fish sheltering within dense reclaimed PVC fish habitat

Largemouth bass and young bluegill using fish habitat in clear water.

♟ Since 2008⌁ Fish-observed designs⌁ Shallow to deep♻ Reclaimed materials

Choose your next move

Start with the job your water needs done

Protect fry habitat example

01

Protect fry

Give young fish a place to hide in the critical weeks.

Depth: 0–6 ft →Grow forage habitat example

02

Grow forage

Support the small fish that feed a productive water.

Depth: 2–15 ft →Create ambush cover habitat example

03

Create ambush cover

Give bass a place to wait, watch, and ambush.

Depth: 6–25 ft →Improve dock fishing habitat example

04

Improve dock fishing

Turn dock water into useful cover with shade and vertical structure.

Depth: 2–20 ft →

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Featured field note

Nebraska lake habitat project at sunset

Nebraska lake project

From clear and quiet to active and balanced.

See how purpose-built cover helped bring more structure to a lake and more opportunity to its shoreline.

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Knowledge for every pond, lake, and fishing hole.

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Fish habitat in a pond or lake

conservation · 2022-08-07

Man made fish cover, what do they like?

6/29/2011 11:18:00 AM Plan to improve fish habitat churns residents Mirror photo by Carrie Draeger A stack of logs 15 feet high waits in a staging area along the Entiat River. Crews will create engineered jams this summer using more than 1,000 logs. High flows could postpone plans to save fish WENATCHEE High Entiat River flows could wash out plans for massiv…

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Fish habitat in a pond or lake

bass habitat 2 · 2022-08-07

Scientists: Remove dams?

Scientists: Remove dams ‘Free-flowing’ river crucial to fish, society says By KATHERINE WUTZ Express Staff Writer See the dozens of unique artificial fish habitat models, fish attractors and fish cover used at fishiding.com, the industry leader and only science based, man made and artificial fish habitat, proven to provide all fish with cover they prefer to …

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