If targeting bass is there a preferred depth, tree, Creek or main river etc for making brush piles on the warrior river or Coosa river?

Any tips would be appreciated.

I would put a few a different depths. As you know fish change depth throughout the yr, no brushpile will keep them from going where they want to go.

Also, do not put them on structure where they currently school, you can turn a sweet spot into a dead spot by dropping brush. Bass will not bunch up on brush like crappie, only a couple at most will be there. Putting brush where 20-30 bass feed will break up the school and leave you with a couple brushpile fish. Look at big flats at different depths that don't have much or any cover.
Brushpiles are nothing like rock piles.

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The best fisherman I know (you'd absolutely know him and his partner too) shared something with me several years ago that I've found to be 95% true...

He said "I've put out literally hundreds of brush piles over the past dozen or more years, and the majority of them NEVER held a fish. I've put them deep on ledges, all depths and contours, under docks, bridges, you name it. The most important thing I found out is that brush won't make bass be where they aren't already."

That has also been MY experience. I have placed cover on structure where I was already catching fish, and it will isolate them to that cover, often the very biggest fish. But I've wasted lots of good cover trying to move fish to a secret spot that nobody else knows about. For me it's been just like everything else we already know about bass fishing---bottom comp makes all the difference. (But I guess that goes back to the statement about fish already being there)

What has shocked me the most about brush/cover is how strong the current is and how it will move insanely heavy objects. I have put multiple items in Choccolocco Creek (off the main Coosa channel), I mean all over way up the creek even, and it would be gone (or sometimes moved a LOOOOONG way) within days. I built "stumps" out of 5-gal buckets and 3" pipe one time---each bucket had nearly a full bag of Quikrete in it, plus I put 4 legs sticking out 6' tall and filled each of them full with Quikrete. I'm guessing they weighed 250-300 pounds. We put 6 of them in a row on the tip of a point (yes on the channel, but well up the creek). I have NEVER found them again!!!!! LOL