I live in Northeast Georgia and I fish this pond behind my house and some other local ponds once in a while. My main pond has heavy vegetation around it and it is a retention pond so it has about  8-12 foot ledge in spots that drops off but I am not sure how deep the middle of the pond is. I have had some luck in the evenings with a frog but not much else is working so far this year. It is somewhat hard to locate cover but i have a little luck and the bottom of the pond is mostly muddy and slimy vegetation. What is your go to bait/lure in this situation, what color, and how do you fish it?

You have already mentioned my favorite lure ( frog) so I would have to fall back on spinnerbaits and/or lipless crankbaits. For plastic I would use flukes and senkos.

When I'm not sure where the vegetation is I often use a Yum dinger rigged wacky with either no weight or a very small bullet weight.

 

From what I usually read I guess I fish it a bit faster than most do a wacky, but I reel slowly while constantly pulsing my tip at about a 0.75-1 second tempo to get a good flicking motion, I prefer using my more rigid rod so I can feel the bait bucking as I go.

I cast and twitch it rapidly while it drops for several seconds then start reeling. 

 

It's great because the motion of the lure will typically flick off weeds and vegetation and will let you explore the depths as well as creating a lot of disturbance to draw the fish to it. 

TX rigged worm with a pegged bullet weight.  That's caught more bass in more farm ponds than any other bait ever made.   I'd opt for a dark color 8" straight tail worm with a 5/0 EWG and a 3/16oz bullet weight pegged with a bobber stopper on 12# floro and a 7' MH baitcaster and if they lived there, I'd wear them out with that rig.  

I wacky rig in ponds its the best way imo.. caught 6 fish over 3 pounds in my big pond last night... also try a Stanley rabbit frog those get smashed up here

I like a good 6" zoom lizard in "watermelon magic". It's a watermelon colored lizard with gold and silver flake. I Texas rig it and fish it slow and close to the bank. I catches them every time.

texas rig watermelon senko style worm or weightless wacky in watermelon . also use junebug, black-blue and bubble gum colors.

Watermelon Super Flukes have been straight money for me this year. When I am not getting a bite using stuff for bigger fish, I tie one on and get a bite within a couple casts. Not saying that everywhere will be this way, but where I go they are hot hot hot.

My favorite is a popper of some type either a spro popping frog or a rebel pop-r.

Ponds= Jig haven!

Summertime - Senkos or Yum Dingers.

I've been slaying them on fat ikas lately, rigged with the skirt up front. Dragging them and reeling them in slow with the occasional twitch has been the ticket for me.

I have a pond like that by my house lately they have been crushing a Little Dipper with a weighted 3/0 hook.. The grass is to slimey to throw anything but soft plastics or top water.. It dosent matter what color Little Dipper I give them they attack it!

Senkos and jigs

Well my personal favorite is grande bass rattlesnake weightless...but in general a senko or centipede probably just as good

My all time favorite go-to bait for a pond is a 1/16oz Mojo Rig with a finesse worm of some type.  It's a numbers presentation that rarely seems to miss.  Great in all kinds of situations even around wood/brush with some practice.  A Green Pumpkin-ish color.

 

Kudos to Glenn for introducing me to this rig.  It is rigged all the time for me now!

Ponds= Jig haven!

Jigs for me too!  If a spot allows me, I'll also power dropshot.  1/0 or 2/0 finesse EWG texas rigged with a 1/2 oz dropshot sinker, of course I learned it from one of glenn's videos,