What kinda lure should i use in my pond? not having any luck.

[Bigfisherman]

Was fishing a pond behind the house all day today with buzzbaits and red dot beetle and didn't catch a thing except for 1 crappie. We decided to put some jugs in the pond and see if we could catch some catfish cause we put some in there not too long ago and we had some minnows and not 10 minutes after we put one in. it had something on it! It was a 5 pound bass! so what do you think i should use. I was thinking a shad type lure but what do you guys think? Heres a picture of the bass http://imgur.com/glqVNsv

[GetBent]

Lots of possibilities. Hard to be at a wacky rigged senko bait. Does the pond have a lot of grass. 

[S. Sass]

I would try a T-rigged worm present it a few different ways slow fast etc see if they respond. That and a good old white spinnerbait or a lipless crank.  

[Wprich]

Match the forage base, throw some cranks that resemble bluegill, crappie, or what ever the main forage is in the pond.  I've always had good luck in small ponds myself throwing inline spinners as well like panther Martin and vibrax specifically.

[Heron]

 

You should use more jugs

[Crestliner2008]

Not knowing what kind of water you are fishing makes it very difficult to predict what could/would work. What is the water clarity? What is the temperature of the water? Weedy....rocky.....muddy? Really need to know more than just say what could work. Everything could work. Just a matter of getting down to specifics in order to narrow down the options.

Are you fishing from a boat or on the shoreline? If you have a boat, do you have a sonar on it? BTW.....that is a fine catch indeed! Congrats!

 

[Hurricane]

Spinnerbaits,  swimbaits,  senkos, creaturebaits... 

[dsqui]

try a jackall iprop in bluegill or ghost minnow i just purchased one today and was very impressed with the results

[adam lancia]

I'd throw i a weightless fluke.

[RyneB]

Other than the great ideas above. A swim jig would be one of my choices. I'd start with a bluegill color with a rage tail menace or gambler little ez as trailers. Both in green pumpkin with the tail dipped in chartreuse. Then I'd try white with a white menace trailer and then a black/blue with a menace or little ez trailer in black with blue fleck.

I have fished a lot of smaller ponds, one of the baits iv had great success on is the small Pop R. It will catch large an small fish. It seem when they are on the popper, they are ON the popper. 

If there is vegetation, a weightless Gambler Big Ez worked on top like a buzz bait will get awesome strikes. If the bass are on the smaller side, a gambler EZ Swimmer or TZ swimmer will work just as good.

[Jaw1]

3" weightless senkos and rebel crickethoppers, also swimn fluke jrs. Gy shad shaped works weightless. I've always had luck with a cricket type bait in ponds weather it be fly fishing or conventional tackle.

[jr231]

Lol minnows obviously bud . If you're really getting skunked. I'd catch some small gills with some crappie nibbles. And free line em for one of those hogs in there ! The catfish will take one too ! So. It's a good idea I promise. And if you don't wanna use the live bait. I'd try a shad rap. Size 7. In yellow perch. 

[primetime]

Just chuck a Floating Rapala in F-7 to F-11 size, or a small 4-6" plastic worm in a natural color maybe with a split shot in front about 18" up. I would go with the lightest line possible, sometimes nothing beats a small lipless crankbait if not to much grass, if the fish have not seen a rattle trap, the first few times are usually really fun. Same with a spinnerbait, smaller 1/8-1/4 size or inline spinner, smaller chatterbait with a black blade. 

weightless plastics fished slow and start fan casting from the shore and toward weed edges, ambush spots, any soft bait will work but hard to beat a senko or old school 6" Twister tail especially in black with chart tail this time of year with all the small bluegill in the water.

Just match the line according to the cover, and to the size of lure, you don't want to be fishing a Rapala minnow on heavy line if you have alot of weeds and big bass in 5lb range because the standard hooks will bend without your drag set properly, that is when the plastic minnow baits like the bomber 13A work well, 14a, and rebel minnow, yo-zuri Pins minnow etc...

The new Rebel bluegill lure is pretty good and only dives about 4', flat sides, and the barbless hooks come in handy if walking the shoreline without pliers.

[BiteFiend]

Were the jugs put in the same area you were fishing for bass or a different area?

If the same area, they probably just didn't want a topwater presentation. Fish something else. Maybe something like a 7" black Berkley Power worm. I have caught all sizes of bass in all water conditions with those.

If you put the jugs in a different area of the pond, I would fish that area for bass since you caught one there.

Most of the time, location imore important than the lure itself. 

[primetime]

10 hours ago, BiteFiend said:

Were the jugs put in the same area you were fishing for bass or a different area?

If the same area, they probably just didn't want a topwater presentation. Fish something else. Maybe something like a 7" black Berkley Power worm. I have caught all sizes of bass in all water conditions with those.

If you put the jugs in a different area of the pond, I would fish that area for bass since you caught one there.

Most of the time, location imore important than the lure itself. 

7" Black Power worm is one of the essential soft baits every bass Angler need to have in the box. When Power worms first came on the market I was still using the Culprit Ribbon Tails but my buddy started using Powerbait instead, and I remember that the Power Worms quickly replaced the Culprits because they just flat out work. Almost always. 

I think with the new Scents on the market Many angler's including myself have moved on from Powerbait in favor of Scents like Megastrike or Just using the Scent and Salt infused in the plastic, but I was recently fishing a small pond and I was not doing well when I reached into my bag and found a kit of 7" Power Worms in black with 2 3/0 hooks and a 1/4 oz weight. I rigged it up weightless on 8lb test Mono and started getting strikes in the exact same spots I was throwing similar worms, sometimes a simple black worm with that Power Bait scent is tough to beat.

Good Suggestion. I would spend weekends on a lake in Up state NY in College and fish nothing but a Ribbon tail worm in black the entire weekend and do well. Sometimes I would go to Motor oil if water was clear, but Sometimes you can't beat the Powerbait scent imo.

[thebillsman]

crazy flapper!

[MickD]

Based on the fact that the jug fishing was a very slow and effective presentation, I would try some of the ideas presented, like wacky rig senko, but fish them very slowly, lots of stops.  Or wacky on a drop shot with light line, so you can just let it suspend just off bottom without much movement.

One of the best search baits, if you can fish it in your water, is the ned rig.  If bass are there, and they can see it, they will eat it.