What is your favorite lure for bass fishing in PONDS?

[hammer24]

Favorite way to catch them: Big popper with fly rod.

Most success: Tequila sunrise culprit worm texas rigged or shad colored fluke

 

[42769vette]

green 3/4 oz roostertail. the spoon on them is finicky but if you get it running right its like fishing with dynamite without dealing with the police

 

[Jacobm]

Year round=Senko type of worm
Hot months=Scum Frog-up on the bank-drop into the water edge+watch the "Toilet Flush"!!

"Toilet Flush" Never heard it put that way. That's Great!

 

[ATOMonkey]

All the ponds I've ever fished have too much green stuff in them to use a worm or jig effectively. Every cast would come back full of "pond moss."

So, I got used to a lot of top-water baits, or anything you could fish about 12 inches deep.

Having said that, good fishing was typically limited to spring and fall when the water temps were just right.

Also, dusk is obviously the best time to throw top water.

 

[AGarbers]

It is as I suspected. The lowly plastic worm is top choice!

 

[Zoub]

It would have to be an black and silver original Rapala for me. My fondness of that bait dates back to before we even knew there were Bass tournaments. All we knew was that the older guys that went on the great excursion "up north" all had more Rapalas in their steel tackleboxes than any other lure. They weren't cheap and you had to swim to retrieve them occasionally but they were the pride of many a young boy.
There is something about casting that lure at sun break and waiting for the initial ripples to dissipate across the pond. Then just a touch of the rod tip and again wait. The payoff was something that only a surface lure brings.

Do I know you?

Only thing missing is Ultralight rig with 2" Rapala. Second choice, slip bobber with ultralight jigs so I can work the snags and crap better.

I love these fantasy threads, "what lure"............YEAH RIGHT! Like I go fishing with only one lure, but in ponds I prefer ultralight spinning rigs that are stiff that can cast accurately and fairly far.

 

[josh25]

Spinnerbait

 

[paperboy]

My favorite has been the 2 1/4" blue and silver Rapala. I have slayed smallies and blugills with it also...

 

[donnie1581]

I've always had the best luck with spinner baits and rubber worms. The bass in my avatar was caught on a spinner bait. My very first cast the bass snatched it as soon as it hit the water. It was late April early May in a small pond in Noblesville about 6:30 in the morning.