PondHunter

My personal favorites, whether I am fishing ponds,lakes or streams, for largemoth, smallmouth, or spotted bass, always comes back to two simple lures. A 4 inch black worm with a curlytail on a black jighead, or a translucent grub on a black jighead w/yellow eye always produce for me. Varying the retrieve is the only difference I use with these two lures.

I fish mine with a 2/0 Mister Twister keeper hook, weightless tied with a loop knot, ora pegged 1/16th ounce lead weight. The shaking technique works with the weight also. I find that shaking works better than rattles, one of the simplest things I ever did to increase my catch rate! Black seems to be the color of choice for everyone.

I use them mainly for inserting into soft plastics. Didnt care for how they kinked the line, or for how they didnt sit in line with the lure. Water Gremlin used to make some really nice lead weights ,but I cant find them anymore. >

Having success with a worm is usually more dependent upon where you fish it. I f you throw it next to cover like stumps, laydowns, holes in weedbeds and lilypads, you can usually catch something. There are hundreds of colors, but black, purple, pumpkinseed, and watermelon are the most popular because they are the most productive. I prefer to use them weightless, and a 1/8th ounce jighead for faster retrieves in clearer water work best for me. Texas rigging works great also, of course. There are about as many ways to fish a worm as there are different styles of worm. Try different tactics and see which ones work for you. The way I learned to use them was when they were the only lure I took with me. Then I couldn't fall back on old methods if it didn't work right away. Now I use them more than anything else. Once you use a Texas rigged worm in the worst areas you can find without getting hung up you will be more confident in fishing the areas that hold more of the big fish. Good Luck!

I would start out with Small 3.5 inch sluggo's, Texas rigged worms, usually weightless, or Tubes rigged weightless. The less time you spend getting hung up the better. If the pond is deep you can add light jighead-grub combo, or jig-worm and get downto them. Good Luck.