Great White Fisherman

Bubblegum trick worm (most productive), minnow fluke, topwater black frog, and took a shot at a white chatterbait just because I had a catch on it once before in the pond

Alright, makes sense. As a side question, do they communicate? Do they "tell" the other fish to do the same thing and lay low? Because there are some recently introduced fish in the pond, as in last week, and even they weren't biting.

I fish just about every day when I get home in the morning (I work nights). Usually it's a couple hours, 8-10 or so. I've noticed recently that the activity on the pond has changed at these times. Used to be, there were blowups here and there, the fish were doing their thing and sometimes I'd catch one. Now at this time every day the pond is quiet and I catch nothing. So have they just learned to hunker down during this time because they know or what? I walk up softly and silently as far from the water as possible, cast to the point where I'll be standing before I approach, all the normal stealthy stuff to keep from spooking them.

I tried out some bottom fishing today. 1.5oz egg weight with a t-rig senko on about an 8 inch leader. Longer leader was just getting snagged and tangling. I tossed it up so as to create speed on the fall to cut through the hydrilla and get to the bottom or as close as possible. Some places were just too thick. I snapped the rod a few times and waited for a strike. I did this for about 2hrs with no luck. Any suggestions?

I found this in-depth examination on the web and I felt I just had to share it here. Largemouth Bass Behavior & Habits It's pretty thorough and totally changed my view of these fish, how to catch them, and why I've had such little luck.

I've done it! Although bass #2 was an itty bitty thing, I'll take it! Plus bass #1 was my current PB at 3lbs! However, this took place on Lake Conroe, not my pond...still trying to make it happen there too.

Well I managed to catch 2 fish today but the catfish was completely by accident...I want 2 or more bass in one day...still had fun. I was fishing a small local lake with very little vegetation so I could throw every lure in my tackle without worry. Caught the bass on a chatterbait and kept working the chatterbait with no luck, changed to rattle trap, then a different color chatterbait, then plastics and finally back to basics with the senko, tried both weighted and weightless and doing the fan technique to cover water. Nothin...just....the one...

I've dropped a lure in every square inch of the pond, it's small enough to reach every place from the bank. My confusion here is how do I "know where the bass are"? I've tried all the obvious places like close to the bank, right up next to the cattails, around the only sharp drop-off in the pond, and very few times have I gotten anything. As I said, I've also fished every other area of the pond too trying to see if there's a holding spot they like. Seems to me that they move around and don't hold to any one area. So I only ever catch them by chance when the lure goes right by them... By nibble I mean I felt a hit but the line didn't move so he didn't take it. And by jerk I mean I snapped the rod back just enough to move the rod tip but several times in quick succession.

So I tried punching. Got a nibble but no bites. I'll still give it a try going forward because I like that I can keep the lure in the same place until I want to move it. I'm using 1/2oz worm weight and I tried junebug baby brush hog, green pumpkin brush hog, and black blue-tailed lizard. Once it was in the water, I waited a moment till it stopped falling (which wasn't very far) and then jerked the rod several times quickly to make it twitch and repeated. Now the only bite/nibble I got was when I yanked it out of the spot it was in and it fell in a 2ft wide gap in the mat and only after it had fallen for a couple seconds. Any pointers on what I'm doing right or wrong?

Don't take it to the bank, I'm just guessing. I believe the property is 2ish acres and the pond only takes up about a 1/4 of the lot

This was actually very helpful at this time because I was going to try punching today. The pond is probably 1/2-3/4 acre, no fountains or anything manmade in it, and at the deepest it's 24'. Of course that also means about 20' of hydrilla in the center..

Haha no I've caught several different bass of different size. There's plenty.

How can I get to the deeper fish without pulling out swaths of hydrilla. The amount of weight needed to get through it would also snag on it...I would love to fish deeper because there's also cats in the pond but as of right now, it's impossible to get to them and not reel in tons of weeds

Well I fish my pond on the property and occasionally the lake when I can get out there. Mostly the pond since it's right outside my house. I fish in the morning as I work nights so morning time is my evening and morning is also the only time I ever catch anything in the pond. I have a variety of lures but the most productive has been plastics; trick worm, fluke, lizard, nothing on the brush hog yet. Favorite would have to be the trick worm. As far as how, each of those is done differently but I suppose you could call it a finesse style as I don't jerk them around, I twitch, let it fall, twitch, etc. The pond is pretty small and easy to walk the circumference to fish different locations. It's probably pretty important to note that this pond is overgrown with hydrilla with a few open water spots. I tend to try the open water first and then come straight across the mats letting it fall in the holes. Caught a few doing the latter. But as I said, no matter what I do or how I do it, I can never get a "fish #2"...

Every time I've gone fishing, it goes 1 of 2 ways: I don't catch anything or it's a one and done trip. I can never catch more than 1 fish at a time and I'm at a loss. I fish the same area I caught the first, use the same lure, eventually change areas and/or lure, and still nope. Just the one fish or nothing at all. What's that deal here??