Pond advice?

[helms83]

Going to a small pond I've never fished before. Been told water is clear and depth is fairly shallow. Not sure about any known structure and forge.

I was thinking natural colored lures; shallow cranks, spinners, and topwaters.

Any advice?

[kickin bass14]

A shallow diving crank like a baby minus-1 is a great choice.   Also, weightless stick baits like senkos or a Case Magic Stik are great options.  Senko style lures are my go to choice in new ponds, especially casting them to strucuture like stumps and trees.

[OHIO]

My favorite lures for ponds are topwaters. I like throwing buzzbaits in the morning and late evening and frogs the rest of the day. If I'm not throwing topwaters, I will likely white spinnerbaits, baby brush hogs, or zoom finesse worms.

[bmadd]

1/16 - 3/32 oz ball head jig with a Charlie Brewer's bass grub in natural color on the back 

[Jigfishn10]

Going to a small pond I've never fished before. Been told water is clear and depth is fairly shallow. Not sure about any known structure and forge.

I was thinking natural colored lures; shallow cranks, spinners, and topwaters.

Any advice?

Sounds like you have a very good starting point. Just don't be afraid to adjust once you start to figure the pond out.

Good luck!

[J_Pearson]

Texas-Rigged Fluke, a wacky worm, Floating Rapala, little buzzbait, and a frog...small-pond Bomb Squad.

JP

[Bass Fisher55]

I find that soft plastic worms you can twitch across the top are great. 

Banjo minnow is just dynamite on ponds.

[steezy]

In a small pond the Bass will eat almost anything.

Early morning and late evening, top water (frogs,buzzbait,poppers)

Anytime, try plastics, if the water is not clear then black plastics

Shallow areas, small swimbaits and dark craws and spinnerbaits.

[reelfun]

you have gotten a lot of good advice so far.  two things i would try that having been mentioned are a small white spinner bait.  sometimes that will just kill pond bass.  and also a fluke. start with watermelon.

good luck and be stealthy

[helms83]

Thanks for the tips everyone.

I went and caught 5 small bass, and 2 fat catfish, lol.

2 bass were caught on a weightless Baby Craw.

1 bass was caught on a weightless Craw

1 bass was caught on a black Buzz bait

1 bass was caught on a shallow shad color Crankbait

The 2 catfish were caught on that same Crankbait.

I tried other stuff, but I couldn't get anything going. I actually figured out a pattern for once: 4 bass were caught on the edge of a grassline 10ft from shore, and they wanted a slow presentation. I'm sure I could have killed them if I stayed with a Craw on that grassline, but I wanted to try other things, and maybe find a bigger one deeper.

I learned alot from the trip though, it was a good time!

[Jigfishn10]

Good for you, helms83! Sounds like you had a good day out there!