Pond Lures

[Bass Junkie]

Recent threads have got me to thinkin' about pond lures, and I'm wonderin' what ya'lls favorites are. Put as many as you like. Tell your favorite retrieves, WHATEVER. Mine would be:

1. Heddon Torpedo, smallest size, Baby Bass. Fish with short jerks on top of the waer.

2. Heddon Torpedo, next to smallest size, Brown Crawdad. Fished same as above.

NOTE: The above lures are sometimes short struck. When this happens, let lure set for a couple sconds, then steadily twitch it in place. They'll eat it!! 8-)

3. Luck "E" Stike Razor Worm, any color. T-Rigged with a 1/8oz bullet weight fished on the bottom.

4. Booyah Pond Magic spinerbait, white. Trailed by a 2.5in Berkley Power Grub, and fished along the bottom, in the middle of the water, or burned.

5. Storm Wildeye Live Crappie, fished SLOWLY along the bottom.

6. 1/4 oz Wordens Rooster Tail, fished with a steady retrieve at various speeds. Coachdog is a good color, though I've never seen a Rooster Tail that wouldn't catch fish :

7. Storm Sub Wart, Bluegill. Wake it, crank it, burn it, or slow it down. It catches 'em any way its fished!!

8. Yo-Zuri Hardcore wakebait, Fietiger. Wake it!!!

There are more, but this is my favrite group. So...Lets Hear Yours!!!

[Raul]

6-7" straight tail, worm ( what a surprise ! : )

4-5" grub

2" Tailess Grub

Zoom Super Fluke Jr

Bass Assasin Shad Assasin

Heddon Baby Torpedo

Arbogast Jitterbug

Rapala Skitter Pop

Storm Chug Bug

Zara Spook

Arbogast Sputterbuzz

LC Sammy

LC Pointer

Rapala Original Foating Minnow size 9 & 11

Storm Subwart

Rapala Shallow Shad Rap

Rapala Shallow Fat Rap

Bill Lewis Rat L-Trap

Rapala Rattlin Rap

Bomber Rattlin RRR

Cordell Spot

Heddon Bayou Boogie

Strike King 1/4 and 3/8 single colorado or tandem spinnerbait

Blue Fox Vibrax in-line spinner size 3 & 4

Megabass Griffon

Megabass Vision 110

Ima Roumba

Rebel Wee Frog

What ? No SENKOS ?!?!?!?!

Nope, I don 't need them.

[Mottfia]

6-7" straight tail, worm ( what a surprise ! : )

4-5" grub

2" Tailess Grub

Zoom Super Fluke Jr

Bass Assasin Shad Assasin

Heddon Baby Torpedo

Arbogast Jitterbug

Rapala Skitter Pop

Storm Chug Bug

Zara Spook

Arbogast Sputterbuzz

LC Sammy

LC Pointer

Rapala Original Foating Minnow size 9 & 11

Storm Subwart

Rapala Shallow Shad Rap

Rapala Shallow Fat Rap

Bill Lewis Rat L-Trap

Rapala Rattlin Rap

Bomber Rattlin RRR

Cordell Spot

Heddon Bayou Boogie

Strike King 1/4 and 3/8 single colorado or tandem spinnerbait

Blue Fox Vibrax in-line spinner size 3 & 4

Megabass Griffon

Megabass Vision 110

Ima Roumba

Rebel Wee Frog

What ? No SENKOS ?!?!?!?!

Nope, I don 't need them.

I think i can see why you don't, Raul  

[roadwarrior]

Well now, you can keep it simple:

Your favorite topwater lures are fine early and late,

like anywhere else.

Otherwise:

Jig & Pig (your favorite colors and trailers)

GYCB Senko

GYCB Fat Ika

If you like spinnerbaits, they can generally be fished "safely"

in a pond, too. Just stay clear of subsurface treble hooks if

you value your tackle. When fishing from shore, be prepared

to lose whatever you fish.

8-)

[Steven Ladner]

Favorites: W-Rigged senko or T-Rigged Zoom finesse worm (1/8oz weight).

[Captain Rhino]

In some of the smaller ponds that I fish, I find it more productive to keep it slow. So I usually use:

1. Senko Types (Black, Green Pumpkin, Redbug)

2. Kinami Baits Palm Tree (Black w/ any colored tail, green pumpkin)

2. Yum Ribbontail Worms

3. Gary Yamamoto Creature Baits

4. Scum Frog Topwater Frog

5. Rapala Shad Popper

6. Heddon Zara Spook Jr.

7. Heddon Torpedo

[guitarkid]

Throw anything you would at a lake. I have never really seen any "for use at lake only lures".

                -gk

           

[bigtimfish]

My pond favorites. Pop r,tiny torpedo,Stanley compact, H&H double spinner, senko style baits, baby b hogs,reaction gator tail dawgs.

[Avalonjohn44]

My Favorites in no particular order:

White&Green Spinnerbait,

Bandit 100,

Bandit Footloose,

Rage Shad,

Rage Toad,

Weightless trick worm,

Pop'R,

Black Cavitron Buzzbait,

Baby or Super Brush Hog,

Reaction Innovation Sweet Beavers

[rubba bubba]

- Toad

- Senko

- Space-monkey

- Worm

 - Anaconda

 - ribbon-tail

- jig - may be higher or not at all depending on the cover and the bottom make up

[Bass Junkie]

Throw anything you would at a lake. I have never really seen any "for use at lake only lures".

            -gk

I fail to concur. In most ponds, and even smaller lakes, I have great difficulty gettin' bites on anythin' shad colored (with the exception of a white spinnerbait).

[The_Natural]

I love going out on foot patrol.  Crankbaits were my secret weapon.  There were several ponds back in Norman where I used to fish that got decent pressure.  Your average joe blow fisherman just tosses plastics....mostly worms purchased at walmart.  My crankbaits gave the fish something they don't see a lot, and I capitalized.  A B2, BDS 1 and 2, and Moonsault cb-100 were my staples.  If the pond wasn't known for larger fish, I'd just throw the bds 1 and cb-100 moonsault.  Fish'em fast...don't give the fish time to decide whether they want to eat it or not.  

[looking4structure]

When i fish small ponds I break out the ul spinning tackle.

Rooster tails    -    all colors

Road runners 1/16oz. blue/white

old school beetle spins

clear bobber with 2'-4' leader with a small fly

tiny-baby brush hogs   -   watermelon/red flake-black emerald-watermelon candy-kiwi

[guitarkid]

Throw anything you would at a lake. I have never really seen any "for use at lake only lures".

            -gk

I fail to concur. In most ponds, and even smaller lakes, I have great difficulty gettin' bites on anythin' shad colored (with the exception of a white spinnerbait).

I'll clean my pond out with a black back silver side shad-ish crankbait or spinnerbait.

                           -gk

[Bass Junkie]

Happy it works for ya........just sorta seem not to get the bites :'(