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Pond Fishing Tips

Posted on 1/17/13 at 12:44 pm
Posted by Sherman Klump
Wellman College
Member since Jul 2011
4469 posts
Posted on 1/17/13 at 12:44 pm
Trying to get some ideas of what types of lures and all to use while pond fishing around the Baton Rouge area? I usually only saltwater fish in lafitte or port sulphur area, so this is pretty new. Should I use some of the same lures or what? Any advice is appreciated.
Posted by Bama and Beer
Baldwin Co, AL
Member since Oct 2010
81034 posts
Posted on 1/17/13 at 12:45 pm to
Red shad worm

Tia
Posted by TigerDeacon
West Monroe, LA
Member since Sep 2003
29409 posts
Posted on 1/17/13 at 1:18 pm to
quote:


Pond Fishing Tips


What are you fishing for?
Posted by Uncle JackD
Member since Nov 2007
58680 posts
Posted on 1/17/13 at 1:18 pm to
H&H spinnerbaits
Watermelon red baby brush hog
Baby 1 minus crankbait

If nothing bites, it's time to move to the next pond.
This post was edited on 1/17/13 at 1:24 pm
Posted by Devious
Elitist
Member since Dec 2010
29185 posts
Posted on 1/17/13 at 1:22 pm to
fish nascar's pond
Posted by The Last Coco
On the water
Member since Mar 2009
6842 posts
Posted on 1/17/13 at 1:32 pm to
Right now I would fish big creature baits and lizards, jerkbaits and flukes.
Posted by skidry
Member since Jul 2009
3302 posts
Posted on 1/17/13 at 1:44 pm to
Be very quiet and dont walk around the edge. If you want to move, walk away from the pond, then over, then back to the edge. They will be very timid if they can see you.
Posted by Bleeding purple
Athens, Texas
Member since Sep 2007
25315 posts
Posted on 1/17/13 at 1:52 pm to
Get and use polarized glasses. Fish into the sun as you circle the pond. Walk softly and move quietly. fan cast starting with a long parrallel cast to the bank and then a cast every 15-20 degrees out from there to 90 degrees and then every 30-40 degrees back to 180 and parrallel to the bank. Advance 3/4 the distance of your first cast and repeat the process. Make sure to "finish the cast" working the bait all the way back to your feet.

Use small sized baits. Start with a motion bait (topwater, spinnerbait, jerkbait, softplastic stick bait, or shallow crank) Make the baits hit and dodge structure then pause and fall slightly when possible. Pay special attention to shade on the surface if there is little in water structure.

Remember on ponds, fish are limited to a small food source which includes a much larger portion of terrestial food sources than fish in large impoundments or the ocean. There is less focus on baitfish as a source of food. The bass can not pick up and move in search of food. Things falling into the water that move are always considered food and hits often come on the inital drop.

If after a full pass around the pond if you have had limited intrest in your bait, slow down your presentation. Switch to a soft plastic. Either a carolina, texas rigged, wieghtless, or wacky presentation with a natural colored worm. You can still use the same soft plastic stick bait jsut worked MUCH slower. Repeat the same pattern.

If this fails go to a bottom only bait and work it with short hops and long pauses trying to map the bottom of the pond in your head.

Pay special attention to bait depth, location, and presentation speed and pattern when you do get a bite.

For clear or greenish water I like white, silver, chartruese, yellow, and sometimes blue. Stay away from strong vibrations and loud baits. Single willow spinnerbaits here. Usually straight tail or single curl tail worms only.

For dark tannic stained water (usually in ponds around pine or cypress trees) gold, red, orange, and dark brown seem to be great colors. I like hammered spinner blades here too.

For night time fishing go with dark colors blacks and purples and strong vibrations with double colorado blades, rattle traps, topwaters with props, or frogs, large ringshaft ribbon tailed worms or creature baits.

Favorite pond baits for largemouth:

H&H spinner baits
white single willow silver blade
black and yellow double colorado
orange and brown double hammered colorado

Humdinger spinners
white and yellow with willow/colorado silver
red with double willow gold


Rapala spitting image topwater in silver black

Zara pup for spook in frog or white

Hula pooper in frog with yellow skirt

Scum frog/rat

Torpedo mid size in silver/black

Wave worm tiki sticks rigged texposed in green pumpkin or laminated shad

6-8" ribbon tail worms fire and ice, junebug, or red shad

4-6"curl tail worms in purple, junebug, purple firetail

Trick worms in bubble gum or methyolate wacky rigged

Norman Tiny N shallow and deep divers in white/yellow, rootbeer

Rattle traps in black (nighttime)

Rapala floating minnow 4" in silver black or gold black

Posted by Me Bite
A.K.A. - Bite Me
Member since Oct 2007
7148 posts
Posted on 1/17/13 at 2:54 pm to
4" or 6" Zoom Worm in Junebug Texas rigged with 1/8" weight.
Posted by Vol Fan in the Bayou
Member since Nov 2009
4158 posts
Posted on 1/17/13 at 3:25 pm to
Crickets, red and white cork, small hooks and a few split shot weights and you are good to go. Well, get a tub of worms too just in case.
Posted by Boats n Hose
NOLA
Member since Apr 2011
37248 posts
Posted on 1/17/13 at 4:30 pm to
I like speed craws and baby brush hogs in watermelon red (or watermelon candy red and similar colors), plum, sapphire blue. Texa rigged with a 3/0 EWG hook and 1/8 oz bullet weight.

Culprit worm in red shad and tequila sunrise, both with green flake. I like the 4" worm and sometimes the 6".

Humdinger spinnerbaits

Beetle spin. I like to use a triple tail grub in place of the one that comes with it.

That's mostly what I'll throw. I have an assortment of really small spinnerbaits and crankbaits and soft plastics/weights that I keep for pond fishing because I like to use my ultralight. Fighting an average sized bass on that little thing is fun stuff, and I'm usually just catch and release in a pond anyway and going for numbers vs size just to occupy some time.
This post was edited on 1/17/13 at 4:31 pm
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