What bass fishing technique works best for you in small pond (no boat)?
I’ve been fishing at this lake every other day for awhile. Matter fact alot of my friends fishs it two just as much. So far i’ve only seen/heard of maybe 5 keeper size bass being caught and a few small ones. Two big fish was snagged so that doesn’t count. Thing is there are many people and different techniques being tried and it’s rare a fish is caught. I dont see how the can turn down rapalas because is so easy to fish but I never get hits on them. I had a couple on worms and lizards but maybe I’m not presenting them right. I dont have a dept finder but walking on the docks and dropping my line down in many parts I’ve found that this pond is only 6″ deep (so it seems) I think is best to try fish close to the top with spinners and rapalas most of the time but it’s not working too good. The weather changes patterns alot too but I’m out in all of it. Trying differant techniques. These bass are smart or just not biting in anything. I can thow a bait on a bed, step back and still nothing.
June 27th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
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Try live shiners with the line free spooling.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:21 am
July 2nd, 2009 at 3:14 pm
it is probably over fished and the fish have wised up and they are extremely finicky they will analyze the hell out of whatever they are intending to eat any flaw will signal them not to eat it
July 6th, 2009 at 12:10 am
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Try a black buzzbait and put a plastic (soft) grub or worm that is a bright distinct color like orange or white on the hook…
!NOTE!: Try to real fast to get the bait to the top and buzz on topwater then start reeling slower.
July 6th, 2009 at 10:33 am
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you probly need a find you a lake or somewhere else to cast if there ain’t no other place then stick with it i like them livin shiners they work real nice for me
July 7th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
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Depending on where you are in the country could make alot of difference. Up here in the north the bass havent even woken up yet and wont until the water temperature gets at least 5-10 degrees warmer. You can occasionaly catch one when it is this cold, but remeber fish are cold blooded creatures! when they are cold they move very very slowly so you have to fish your lures very very slowly, they cant bite what they cant catch. Try some small spinners or road runners and if you want you can tip them with a little piece of a night crawler or a wax worm, just remeber, cold water slow retrieve, warmer water faster retrieve, good luck!
July 10th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Lot of people fishing a small pond… it takes a while, but fish do learn. Try something no one else is using. Everyone’s using topwater and buzzbaits, go get a pack of Senkos.
Variety, after all, is the spice of life.
July 13th, 2009 at 6:01 am
I find that when all else fails, the rubber comes through. Try fishing a french fry worm rigged with a weedless hook and no weights. I found this technique on. It has had excellent results for me.
July 15th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
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senkos fished super slow. just deadstick it for 10-15 seconds, give it a slight jerk to get the bait up and the action of the bait do the rest. repeat the process. many fishermen use the senko, but it never fails. If the fish dont like the texas rig, wacky worm it and fish it slow also, but it doesnt have to be as slow as the texas rig. Try jigs too, bass love a crunchy crawdad to chew on!
July 17th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
It sounds like you have a overfishing problem at the lake. It sounds like you are fishing with good lures. Maybe you are fishing too fast. In the artificial category I would try a weightless senko in watermelon. A yums plastic crawfish in the 3.5 length in the color that matches your bottom. Green bottom, use green pumpkin. Brown bottom, use pumpkin seed. I recommend the Yums Papi Craw. Use a small worm weight and slightly bigger worm hook. You don’t want a lot of splash on your entry. FISH SLOW. Use finesse tactics and downsize your mono as much as you can afford without loosing a fish or lure. If all else fails, use live bait.
July 18th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
What is happening is fairly simple- the bass are under tremendous fishing pressure and are therefore much harder to catch then they normally would be.
Assuming that this is the lake that you are going to be fishing at regardless of the pressure on it, you are going to have to give the fish something that they don’t see very often or at all to get them to hit the lure. Try a Stanley ribbet frog preferably in the red pearl color. This is an awesome lure for bass, especially pond bass- you fish it without a weight, but you will need a special hook that they make for the frogs- you cast it out (it casts great) and you reel it in with twitches of the rod tip and take up the slack with your reel- when the fish hits the lure, drop your rod tip and let the fish take the lure for a ways before you set the hook- I usually count to 7 before I set the hook- you will hook a lot more then you catch with this lure but it is fun to fish it. The next lure to try would be a plastic without a weight, just a hook- try the Zoom finesse worm and retrieve it slowly with rod twitches- another good lure is the senko type lures – fish it the same as the Zoom finesse worm .
I will guarantee that these lures will catch bass in a heavily fished lake. Good luck and good fishing!