Best Lures For Smalltown Pond Fishing

[TackleKing]

So I live right next to a pretty small pond that I fish a lot, I use a frog that doesn't work very well, and I just got a new crank bait that I caught one 13 inch chunker on. For now I'm going to keep fishing with my crank but I wanted to know what the best lures are for small town ponds. I have spinnerbait, spoons, popper, and jigs. Anything else that works great?

[smr_hga]

Each pond is unique. It can take a lot of experience to "master" a pond. But small ponds generally mean small bass. So try to match your lures to your fish. Try something small like a jig or senko or even a tiny crankbait. Just keep switching it up until you find what works well. You may even find success in live bait.

[bigbill]

Water conditions is a factor for what size and lure color.

Mepps inline spinner Anglia #3 silver blade, gray dressed.

Rapala original floater #F7 in blue or black.

Mann's baby 1 in browncraw.

Mann's Indiana white spinnerbait, gold blades 1/4oz. With a mister twister 4" split double tail white grub trailer with trailer hook. A shot of scent.

The size of the bass relates to the eco system. Food is the factor.

I have a few healthy ponds that hold bigger bass the one in my hand is 6lb 1 oz. I've had bigger on my line and seen bigger swim by me.

[Maxximus Redneckus]

T rigged worms purple in 6"

[68camaro]

I just started fishing small local ponds and have had success with shallow jerkbaits and crankbaits down to 6', anything lower and they get hung up. I have had very limited success with plastic worms. My  ponds are heavily fished with nightcrawlers.

 

Live minnows under bobber do great but I prefer to not do this.

[TackleKing]

I just started fishing small local ponds and have had success with shallow jerkbaits and crankbaits down to 6', anything lower and they get hung up. I have had very limited success with plastic worms. My  ponds are heavily fished with nightcrawlers.

 

Live minnows under bobber do great but I prefer to not do this.

Thanks I'll try the jerk bait because everything else I already have XD

[Preytorien]

I fish quite a few ponds like this too. It seems like more often than not the smaller the pond, the smaller the size of fish I catch. But you never know, so I usually stick with a senko or Ned Rig until I start getting a good idea of the average fish size for that body of water. I've always heard it said, and it's true, downsize your bait to get more bites. That way you can start to get an idea of what size fish and what KIND of fish populate it. Some ponds, no matter how good they look, just don't hold quality fish populations. 

[Hurricane]

Ned rig. .

[TxBuddha]

Drop shot has been a consistent producer in my small, local pond. Zoom finesse worm in Sprayed Grass or Watermelon Red have been the most consistent producers as well as Tiny Fluke in Watermelon Red.

[bigbill]

Presentation is the key.

Take a topwater rebel pop R blue

Do a short twitch, 1 twitch, 2 twitch, 3 twitch then pause.

Repeat all the way in. Then cast out again.

Do not fan cast your casts next to each other skip fan cast. Cast to the right. Then cast to the left. Then cast down the middle skip fan cast.

My mall drainage pond holds 3 lb bass

[MIbassyaker]

Small ponds tend to have small forage. Small forage calls for small baits. Crappie lures, for instance, will often catch bass in small ponds. Consider:

-4" straight-tail worms weightless or on a shakey head

-ned rig

-2"-3" curly tail grubs on a jighead

-crappie jigs; roadrunners

-3" and 4" stick worms on a wacky rig

-any other 2"-4" plastic lure on a weightless texas rig

-small topwaters: Rebel pop-r, Heddon tiny torpedo

-small shallow crankbaits: Rapala original floaters, Rebel Craw or Crickhopper, Bomber model 2A, KVD 1.5 squarebill

-small spinnerbaits, like booyah pond magic or  a beetle-spin 

[tbone1993]

green pumpkin swimjig with a green pumpkin curly tail grub.  Chatterbait with lft magic shad. Only two baits you need to catch fish. 

[rippin-lips]

Wacky rigged 4" green pumpkin senko on a #2 gamakatsu finesse wide gap hook. That'll catch fish anywhere.

[rippin-lips]

Wacky rigged 4" green pumpkin senko on a #2 gamakatsu finesse wide gap hook. That'll catch fish anywhere.