Only 5 lures for Pond bass

Zman chatter bait chart/white gold blade
Zman chatterbait black/blue silver blade
Chrome Roostertail 3/8 oz.
Speed Craws - Green Pumpkin Magic
Utail Worms - Red Shad

I havent pond fished in a long time but when I did these were what I used and caught numbers on, not much size in the ponds I fished.

1. small floating Rapala jerkbait
2. Mepps or Roostertail spinner
3. Tiny torpedo
4. weightless fluke
5. 6" texas rigged worm

Rebel Pop-R, Zara spook or Zara puppy, jointed rapala, squarebill crank, lipless crank.

Assuming we're not talking soft plastics.

Neilslure said:

not much size in the ponds I fished

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Yeah same here

KVD 1.5 squarebill crankbait - sexy sunfish pattern
KVD 1.5 squarebill crankbait - chartreuse/black back
Zman Chatterbait 3/8th oz black/white
Wacky rigged senko - watermelon red
Terminator titanium 3/8th oz chartreuse/white buzzbait

It really depends.... What time of year? What kind of pond? Etc etc. I used to fish ponds only and had about 10 different ones and my strategies for each were different depending on which pond I was in. I'd also pick which pond I went in depending on what time of year it was as well as the weather. You just gotta learn the pond. Only one thing was the same for all of them. One of my rods always had a 1/4 white booyah spinner bait. Always.

it does matter the pond a great deal. but if i wanted to fish any pond any time, i'd use these:

white hollow body frog (or a horny toad)
gold red dot gray #3/#4 mepps spinner (or a booyah)
black shiner spook (or a zell pop)
green pumpkin senko (or a red shad speedworm)
pbj eakins jig (or black blue flipping jig)
bubblegum trick worm

preference of individual can dictate parenthetical or not.
6 baits is acceptable because trick worm and senko can be fished on the same hook.

The size of the pond somewhat dictates what I used (before the long rod came to be):

Plastic lizard
Plastic worm
Rapala Cranks
Some type of topwater
Large Spinnerbait

Manufacturers and colors vary depending on conditions.....

I don't need but one. An artificial worm.
I'll go up against anything else for lunkers.

Give me a watermelon red Senko and i can catch a bass in any body of water that they inhabit...

7.5 inch culprit worm in tequila Shad is what I used to throw 99.9 percent of the time for bass. The only other must have is a 2 inch white curly tail on a 1/8 jighead and small silver spinner.

If I had to specify color, either purple or purple with a fire tail 7-10".
If there is a hawg in it, that'll catch him.

I used to have boxes full of top waters, plugs, and spinner baits. That's alright if you just want to catch fish. If you want to consistently pull lunkers, artificial worm even into the winter months or switch up to a jig and pig.

If I hit a pond around here on the farm, I don't even carry a tackle box. A couple of hooks stuck in my hat, a few weights in my pocket and a bag of Culprit in my back pocket.

If they won't pick up a worm, it's time to go home and do something else.

I like Nielslure's list with two slight exceptions: #3 & #4

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1. small floating Rapala jerkbait
2. Mepps or Roostertail spinner
3. Tiny torpedo 3. Strike King Bitsy Minnow
4. weightless fluke 4. Weightless Texas rigged worm
5. 6" texas rigged worm

PLus Fishin',
RW

Trigger's list is almost exactly mine. I had to look up what that specific worm is and it is pretty darn close to the color of power worm I fish for bass most of the time and I suspect they are generic substitutes for each other (despite our loyalties to various brands, it is pretty obvious that other brands work about as well). But you gotta have 2" white twisty tails; I am not sure there is any body of water where they won't work. They are surprisingly universal in the size of fish they catch also.

Wacky rigged stick bait
Weightless Pearl Fluke
7.5 Red Shad Culprit Worm (t rig)
Black Buzzbait
Jitterbug

Green Pumpkin KVD Perfect Plastic Finesse worm, texas rigged...boom

Senko. Dark Green/watermelon. Texas rigged weightless. It just plain catches fish.

Brenardo said:

7.5 Red Shad Culprit Worm (t rig)

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This was always my dad's favorite. He used to tell me red caught bigger fish than purple. We usually caught about the same