Anyone on the board fish ponds?

I have had some decent luck in my local neighborhood ponds using wacky rigs.

Some type of craw lure on a Texas rig. Working the lure parallel to the bank.

Superfluke on a 4/0 Ewg hook

Depends on what time of the day/year it is and what their food source is. If your just to catch as many fish as possible a jig or senko weightless are your best bets. Early in the morning and late in the evenings are the best for topwater which is by far the funnnest way to fish.

Spinnerbaits and cranks are awesome but I find not as effective in ponds as they are in lakes with healthy populations of shad. Your trying to match the hatch. Almost all ponds have crawfish so jigs are a great bet.

What’s the vegetation like?

We have 3 ponds on our property that the my kids fish regularly. They have the best luck with Watermelon brush hogs . The quarantine has them (15,10,9) fishing almost daily and they usually end up with 4-5 bass . My middle son caught a bass about 6 lbs last week on a rattle trap.

I exclusively fish ponds and generally try to fish 4-5 times a week. Some good recommendations so far.

- Senko will always work, I generally prefer texas rigging it but a lot love the wacky presentation
- Fluke is a generic term but I am a loyalist to KVD Perfect Plastic Caffeine Shad. It has a completely different action than a Zoom Super Fluke. The caffeine shad is a very dense bait with a lot of salt so it compares to a senko but with more bait fish like action. Because of the weight, I fish it weightless and let it naturally fall and then give it a twitch occasionally. It’s a very different presentation than how most fish the lure but it’s tied on very often. KVD Magic is my preferred color.
- Ned rig is absolute money in a pond, especially ones that get pressed a lot. Use the lightest head you can...I generally use 1/10 but occasionally use 1/15. 1/6 of it’s a little windy. TRD is the tired and true. I use the Mud Minnow color the most because it looks like fingerlings and other forage that is common in a pond. I’ve also had success on the craw version but a little earlier in the year. For stained water, I got the Yoga Pants (all black) and it’s worked well in tougher conditions.
- Flashy swimmer with a Rage Swimmer 3.75 has been a recent addition. Fishes weedless which is a big need for most ponds. Caught two on it last night.
- Finesse jig is another newer addition to my arsenal. I put a small beaver trailer on it. Caught 7 last night using this and it just gives a different presentation that the fish don’t see as often. I don’t fish jigs super often but the smaller profile jigs mimic a beefed up ned rig.

I fish my own pond as well as a few buddies. Senkos weightless are always a go-to. Super fluke early am or late evening is also really good. I recently started using swim baits with a jig head and was surprised by the amount of fish I have been able to pull in. My end all be all is a Cajun lures frog on a 4/0 double hook.

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Anyone on the board fish ponds?

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For bass and crappie, almost exclusively.

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what's your favorite bait for bass?

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1) 1/2 oz double Colorado blade handmade spinnerbaits.

2) Watermelon fluke on 5/0 worm hook, no weight.

3) Tequila Sunrise 7" power worm, Texas rig, 3/8" bullet weight.

4) Any shallow running, "fat" diving crankbait.

5) Buzzbait.

6) Booyah frog.

If I can't catch bass on one or all of those, I pick up the light tackle and start bobber fishing for bull bluegills.

Smaller size whopper plopper in a frog type color fished at dusk. Try a twitch twitch pause routine. Make casts parallel to shoreline if possible. Stop it by any structure (stumps,grass points etc.

Buddy of mine lives on a neighborhood pond thats overfished as hell. Said all the big fish been gone for years. Cast 11 times to a point of grass over a slight drop off. Not a fish stirred. Cast number 12 I ripped it up to the point as hard n loud as I could n paused it.

Let it sit for almost two minutes n gave it the tiniest of twitches. The ungodliest topwater explosion you can imagine resulted. Looked like someone dropped a cinder block from 100 ft up on top of that Whopper Plopper.

My brother in law has 100 acres near Poplarville with a pond. Laugh if you want, but I have been very successful using a small roadrunner spinner with a black and chartreuse tube jig on it. I was using this to catch perch, but the bass kept tearing it up.