I found a new Pond today...Its maybe 5 acres, soup bowl shape, clear water (3-4') visibility with the entire pond roughly 8-10' deep with a breakline that comes up pretty steep onto a 1-3' sandy flat on the shoreline. The shallow water is full of tiny 1-2" bluegills all schooled up, along with other 1/2" fry schools of likely tilapia and bass all jammed together.

 

I only had about a half hour to fish it today, and in that time, I watched about a dozen good sized Bass come flying out of the deep water and ambush the baitfish. Not alot of shoreline structure, weeds are sparse and not much of an issue.

 

I plan on going back over the next few days since I saw several 2-3lb solid bass, but in the time I fished, I only caught 1 on a zoom fluke in watermelon red, and focused on the dropoff. 

 

Any ideas would be welcome. I would imagine this pond has a few really good bass in it, so I am curious to hear some suggestions.

A small paddletail swimbait would be good to imitate the small fry. I'd bring some t rig 4" worms and a popper a or any small topwater you could work fast over the clear water also.

Whelp, you know where the bass are. Small swimbaits like a 3.8 kietech, ect. lipless cranks if there isn't any vegetation. Small jigs with craw type trailers if there are crawdads in there..T rigged worms, senco's..ect, ect. 

Small Swimbait or under spin with a Swimbait! Flukes and senkos too

Rattle trap, spinnerbait, crank and small swimbait as mentioned above. If you’re not getting bit on those I’d slow down with a jig or a plastic 

Fluke or buzzbait

19 hours ago, primetime said:

I only had about a half hour to fish it today, and in that time, I watched about a dozen good sized Bass come flying out of the deep water and ambush the baitfish.

 

 

All of the above and I'd include a few top water baits. 

Ned

Senko

Spinnerbait 

That sounds like my kind of pond. If there’s not allot of fishing pressure there you could have found yourself a sweet little honey hole. You can probably catch them on everything in your bag.