Pond Invitation

[bigrod]

Honestly burley I am the best pond fisherman on this entire board. You should just take me with you and allow me to show you what to do. I find you will learn more by watching the first while and then trying what you have learned after I have gone around these ponds a couple of times. Just kidding, good luck, ponds are a great way to build your confidence when it comes to bass fishing. Hook some big ones bro

[Col Forbin]

I love fishing ponds - everything above will work great. I would always start with topwater for the fun factor. T-rig would be my next option, or a shakey head. However, the ponds I have fished the past couple of years, it seems they cant resist a senko. Fish it slow, let it sit on the bottom for a few seconds, pop it up and let it sink again. I have caught fish on these in ponds while talking on my cell phone, where it has laid on the bottom for several minutes - just looked up and saw my line swimming sideways.

One word of advice, in lakes you get a lot of reaction strikes, and fish just grabbing at baits. It seems pond fish are very eager for a meal, so bring some long pliers, you will probably have several deeply hooked, or gut hooked. If they are really actively feeding, I will often take my pliers and smash my barbs down for a quick release. If you keep good rod pressure, or have a longer limber rod to keep the tension tight, they don't throw a barbless hook near as easy as you would think. But I sure would hate to lose a 7 pounder because of a thrown barbless hook. But if you are catching fish after fish in the same size range - I would definitely go that route - more time to fish, not wasting time un hooking.