Gotta be honest. I just caught my first-ever bass on a spinnerbait yesterday. It was a dink, but it was the first time I’ve ever had a strike on a spinnerbait, let alone a catch. I always thought these things were a gimmick lol. 
 

So, in a shallow (5’-7’) pond, what depth do you normally fish a spinnerbait? Close to the top? Mid-depth? Depends on conditions? Needless to say, the water temps here in Texas are pretty hot if that makes a difference. But not too weedy unless you hit the bottom. 

All depths . I even fish them out on deep points .

Close to shore with a colorado, you want it bubbling the surface - sometimes even break the surface and then pause it a bit. 

 

Otherwise there is no wrong way to fish them really.  Its really understanding ambush points and angles.  Bumping them off things, letting them fall in holes, running them through sparse lilly pads and pond weed.  You have to very your  retrieve a lot of times to get a reaction strike.  There really isnt a bad time to throw one either.  

My rule of thumb with spinnerbaits is that if I can see the bait coming through the water real well, I'm fishing it too fast/too shallow.  If I can't see that bait at all, I'm probably fishing too deep.   I like to fish it deep enough that I only very occasionally see a flash from the blade.  If I go 5 or 6 casts and never see the flash of the bait until it gets right next to the boat, then I'm probably fishing too deep/not fast enough                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

Typically on the top or bottom. Most of the year I want it to be in the top foot of the water column. 

4 minutes ago, Fishes in trees said:

My rule of thumb with spinnerbaits is that if I can see the bait coming through the water real well, I'm fishing it too fast/too shallow.  If I can't see that bait at all, I'm probably fishing too deep.   I like to fish it deep enough that I only very occasionally see a flash from the blade.  If I go 5 or 6 casts and never see the flash of the bait until it gets right next to the boat, then I'm probably fishing too deep/not fast enough                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

The Jimmy Houston school of spinnerbaiting . I do it like that most of the time too but still like to fish them deep at times 

One of my go to, is a spinnerbait. In the city park ponds I fish which are no more than 8' deep at most, unless there's a thick mass of weeds, I fish it at all depths. 

One thing I like doing is fishing it almost on the surface with a double willow blade, I will stop it and let fall, mimicking a injured bait fish, gets bit a lot that way.

 

So yeah anything from bouncing it off the bottom to the surface could work.

It’s funny. This pond (when I fished from the bank) brought in masses of algae off the bottom when fishing bottom baits like soft plastics (even when rigged weedless), but not so from my boat. And other than that, very few weeds at all. Most of the bass I’ve caught are around sunken branches (not many) and overhanging limbs. So I can run a spinnerbait at all depths without too much worry. 
 

I think varying my retrieve more so than I currently do may be helpful. Hey, I was just happy to finally catch a bass on one! Now I need to finally have one of my topwater frogs nail one! 

I would fish that spinnerbait at all depths and retrieve it at different speeds. 

10 hours ago, BrianMDTX said:

So, in a shallow (5’-7’) pond, what depth do you normally fish a spinnerbait? Close to the top? Mid-depth? Depends on conditions? Needless to say, the water temps here in Texas are pretty hot if that makes a difference. But not too weedy unless you hit the bottom. 

To me that's one of the good things about a spinnerbait, you can fish it nearly anywhere in the water column. Just figure out where the fish are that particular day and then vary retrieve speed to fish it there. You can even use it to find what depth they're at, it's a great search bait. My subdivision pond is similarly shallow (I estimate deepest water is 6'); in this super hot weather we've been having the fish will cruise weeds along the bank very early/very late, but otherwise are couching out on the bottom in the deepest water. I could theoretically use a spinnerbait in both settings...

 

...but with all the new Covid anglers, for some reason they all seem to show up throwing a spinnerbait. I don't know if it's the appeal of the $1 bargain box at Walmart or what, but it's become a running joke with my son that every time someone shows up at the pond and we've never seen them before, they're going to be throwing a white or chartreuse spinnerbait (and not the Booyah pond magic size, but big old whoppers, despite the fact that this pond has no fish over about a pound). In the interest of giving the fish something they don't see often, I've stayed away from the spinnerbait this year. Lots of Ned rigs, cause I'm pretty sure they aren't seeing many of those.

Most “anglers” I see are throwing frogs or poppers. I’ve only seen one angler (in a yak) catch consistently using what looked like a floating Rapala. I also see quite a few creature baits (mostly craws), but once again, either no catches or all dinks. 
 

I guess in different areas you see the majority fish different baits. I hardly see anyone using plastic worms or Senkos, which I find unusual.