Tips on bass fishing for ponds Montgomery, Alabama

Spinnerbait
Top water baits like Zara spook or devil’s horse
Jig with plastic bait like craw
Buzz bait.

You said you wanted to get away from plastics. But… if the lake has decent fish a 9-12” texas rigged plastic worm fished as slow as you can make yourself is good during the hot part of summer. Weight size depends on depth and worm, but a 1/4 oz would be a good starting point. I have caught a lot of bass in the summer deadsticking a plastic worm. If this is a big pond and you are fishing from a boat, a drop shot rig with a Gulp 3” minnow or similar, again worked super slow, is good around any deeper structure. And maybe I missed it, but a 3”-3.5” swim bait on an underspin, basically just a bigger version of a road runner, catches fish, Maybe others will disagree, but in the summer I get bites either fishing really fast (buzzbaits, spinnerbaits) or as slow as I can make myself.

What kind of structure there is, size and depth of lake, and fishing pressure will dictate the details. Are we talking 2 acres or 22 acres? Is it pressured? What kind of cover is there? If you have lily pads, on top of the standard buzzbait/frog/fluke everyone fishes, try a larger (trick worm or larger) straight tail worm texas rigged with a 3/0 or 4/0 EWG no weight. Same setup as a super fluke. Work it across the pads till you get to a hole and let it fall as long as you can stand. Rinse, repeat. You will get some that blow up on it, but most will eat it on the fall.

And a 4” finesse worm rigged on a 1/8 oz shaky head or texas rigged w/ 1/8 weight fished on 8-10 pound spinning gear will probably catch a bass anywhere that a bass lives.

Thx. 12 acre pond. Not heavily fished. Mostly bank fishing. Fallen trees. Bushes. I need to get a Jon boat or fishing kayak.

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12 acre pond. Not heavily fished

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My gf’s dad has a 12 acre pond here in La. He lets some friends fish it, but mostly just me. The problem is, over 400 fish need to be taken out every year and It’s a pretty decent task. Luckily, he has crawfish ponds behind it and dumps crawfish into the fish pond.
Anyway, I wear them out on a delta lures delta shad chatterbait with silver blade and a reaction innovations Little Dipper sexy shad trailer. I catch them on hollow body frogs and buzzbaits too. But the chatterbait is my go to.

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Rebel pop R, any color with a white belly at dawn and dusk or all damn day if overcast

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This.

Or a smaller size Whopper Plopper at dawn/dusk, especially if there is a slight chop on the water.

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I need to learn to trap.

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Beavers are not too hard to trap.

Duke's 330 body trap set up in their runs will take them out.

Youtube video showing how