fishing in small ponds

[stanley]

what is the best Bait for small ponds and the techniques for the bait
thank you for your help

[RIP LIPPER]

I am in S.C. and fish a a good sized pond about once every two weeks. I like to fish for bass mostly. For bass I use a spinner bait or a texas riged worm with the wieght clamped about 12" up the line. If you want to catch brim and bass I like to use the medium sized beetle spin in a white color. That beetle spin tears them up every time. For the worm I cast it out and let it sink to the bottom Then twitch - pause retrieve a little, let it sit for 10 seconds and repeat. The beetle spin I cast out and retrieve at a medium pace. Hope this helps. Good luck!

[Jigger]

Im with Rip. For small ponds, a 6" T-rigged worm or a small spinnerbait is hard to beat. Don't forget a topwater of your choice when the water warms. These baits in a color suited to the water color are about all you need in small ponds that don't get a lot of pressure. Small ponds are cool to fly fish for bass on too if ur into that.

[rrw4258]

Bass are bass no matter where you're at... i stick with the same tackle unless there is a strong cold front that moves through. In that case i like to downsize to 6 or 8 lb. flourocarbon and fish a small 4-6" finesse worm.

Ryan

[scbassman]

i use worms beetle spins top water if early in the morning or late in evening and just in the last two weeks the new storm swim shad lures they have worked at three different ponds so far

[Marty]

Originally Posted by stanley

what is the best Bait for small ponds and the techniques for the bait
thank you for your help

I don't have an answer. I fish a lot of small ponds, and if there's one factor that doesn't enter my lure decision, it's the size of the water. I use whatever lure I feel is appropriate for the conditions, such as weather, cover, time of year, water temperature, etc. Any lure can be effective in any size body of water.

[RUDylirious]

I fish a small pond in my housing development almost on a daily basis. For such a small pond it produces some nice bass. Like the previous poster said...I use the same tackle for small or large ponds. The only thing about the small ponds is they have a tendency to get real heavy with the algae/weeds etc much quicker. At this point for my pond I pretty much have to use scum frogs or I'm pull green stuff off my line every cast.