4 minutes ago, roadwarrior said:

 

What?

I have about 28 small Germantown Parks ponds. We catch bass, and some good ones, all winter.

January and February are two of my best months!

Sounds fun! I have about jack squat in the way of ponds 

 

7 minutes ago, roadwarrior said:

 

What?

I have about 28 small Germantown Parks ponds. We catch bass, and some good ones, all winter.

January and February are two of my best months!

Give us the longitude and latitude of these waters.....we will harass them. Lol

All Public Ponds

https://www.google.com/search?q=germantown%2C+tn+parks&rlz=1CAWPBA_enUS930&oq=germantown%2C+tn+parks&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i457j0i22i30.9495j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Water rolls downhill too fast to make a pond over this way 

I will be fishing some small ponds tomorrow, the weather is going to be 70-80 degrees. Any tips on what to throw in? Much appreciated.

Air temps aren't that important. Do you know the water temps? Where are you located?

9 hours ago, roadwarrior said:

 

What?

I have about 28 small Germantown park ponds. We catch bass, and some are good

ones, all winter. January and February are two of my best months! I'll recommend 

the Fish Head Underspin with a LFT Live Magic Shad trailer.

We don't really have any public ponds. There's one small (an acre or so) on a DNR river public access. All the others are private farm ponds and I've never had access to any.

 

 

17 hours ago, Luke Barnes said:

If I remember right @J Francho has said to upsize baits in ponds and use as big as you possibly can. Someone said i know that much. 

I've said it.  For ponds that sunfish make up part of the diet, big blue gill baits have worked well for me. 

Update from the OP: Thanks to everyone for your helpful feedback. Went out to this pond again this week and...it's still kicking my butt. ?I tried a couple new ideas from this thread, specifically the free rig with a 4" green pumpkin Yum Dinger, and the Carolina rig idea with a GP Sukoshi Bug (made out of elaztech so it floats). These did do a good job of letting me cast further and get out so I could drag the bottom out in the deepest part of the pond. Also threw a blade bait, couple different jerkbaits, and a finesse jig.

 

But not a dang bite. It's like the whole pond has just gone dead. Absolutely none of the little baitfish, baby bass or bluegills that I can usually see from the bank. IDK. I'll keep at it.

On 12/8/2020 at 8:51 PM, HAWG MAGNET said:

I will be fishing some small ponds tomorrow, the weather is going to be 70-80 degrees. Any tips on what to throw in? Much appreciated.

My tip is quit bragging about your warm temps!!!!!!  You are upsetting us Northerners!!!!!!!!!!??