Wanna see what y’all use. One acre pond. 15ft deep in one end and knee deep on the other. Some structure. Pond is pretty clean as far as vegetation. What’s your best catching baits for this?
I’ve some luck on (baby bass) Yum dinger. Some frog hits and a few othe various plastics. Top water action is terrible from what I e seen

Small spinner bait or maybe a beadle spin or small rooster tail will catch any fish in there.

Don't give up on top water till you throw a whopper plopper at them.

This is my #1 pond bait with the chartreuse/blk micro pond magic being #2. Doesn’t have to be Boo-Yah obviously, just a small 1/8oz white or mostly white spinnerbait with single chrome Colorado blade

4" Electric Red Lizard with a chartreuse tail.

Finesse worm weight less use like a trick worm. Red shad worm or a fluke mainly use a green color.

ned rig, t-rig worm, spinnerbaits, square bill crank and r-trap!

Best thing and funest thing I’ve found in a pond is to use a bream buster pole with a weightless black worm and work the 5’ water to the bank in a Jon boat or kayak. In other words jigger poling.

Weightless fluke Arkansas shiner or pearl color with ewg hook.

Dang! I haven’t heard of jigger poling in over forty years. My dad loved it.

x2..............In my lifetime, I've probably caught more fish on a white spinnerbait w/ red eyes than all other baits combined.

baby brush hog t-rigged & reeled in real slow (green pumpkin or junebug)
zoom 6” u-tail weightless t-rigged (tequila sunrise or watermelon candy)
senko (green or purple)
small baby bass crankbait (the BPS XPS small ones - jerk & snatch, let it fall, reel back a bit & repeat)

Straight death...Wacky rigged Zoom Finesse Worm - Junebug Red or Watermelon Red

1/4 ounce chartruese Rooster Tail with gold blade...best bass catcher I've ever fished in a farm pond but won't catch sh** on a public body of water.

bubble gum worm

I have caught enough bass from small ponds on a Snagless Sally to stall a D9 dozier. I prefer white but a yellow or a yellow and black skirt work well too.



You cannot beat an old fashion Texas rigged worm in purple with a fire tail.


If the pond is clear of vegetation as you say I have had good luck with a silver and black Rattletrap. Easy to control the depth you run it at in a pond where that can range from 3 feet to 15 feet.




If the topwater bite isn't real aggressive and there isn't much surface vegetation I like a Devil Horse. It can be worked as slowly or as aggressively as the situation warrants.

If I was fishing a farm pond and all I had was a 5 inch Rapala, 1/4 oz rooster tail and a purple plastic worm, I would be happy fishing all day.

I like motoroil color, however i've had great luck with Junebug

I have had good luck with trick worms in white, pink, green pumpkin and watermelon seed.

I guess Crickets and Wigglers are Old-School......