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My Bass Pro Shop credit card accumulates reward points. Not sure if they're all the same, but my reward points go away at the end of each year so in my case it's use them or lose them. If you're not buying items from Bass Pro, you generally earn 1 or 2 percent instead of 4 percent. It's still better than nothing I guess. You can use the points on Bass Pro's website as well. They track your points, so when you go to 'check out' you'll be able to enter the amount you have toward your purchase. I just cashed my points in on Dec 28th, and the item I purchased ended up being on back order. They let me cancel my order and sent me a gift card for the value of my points. Pretty good deal.

All of the above is great advice. One thing I do as soon as I buy a jig is modify the weed guard. I trim all the strands so that when you push them down to the hook, they go just past the hook tip by about 1/16" to 1/8". This will help with hookups. If you want to increase your hookup percentage but don't want to remove the weed guard entirely, you can remove (cut) some of the strand off. You can also trim the jig skirt up too if desired. I generally don't do alot with the skirt though. I say give it a shot. The pond sounds like it's got some good cover to fish a jig around. Like previously mentioned, jig fishing takes practice so don't be discouraged it at first you don't succeed.