Well heres the the thing. Soon in the next couple of days i will be fishing at this pond/resivour that its OVERSTOCKED on bass. I mean its nuttin to get a 3-6 pounder out of the body of water. I mean this is what i keep being told. And i keep seeing pics of all the fish athat are being taken out of here. Whats great is everyone releases the fish back even when its bass season here in NY. Although i think that would help down the population,lol. But what happened was they stocked this place like 20 years ago. and the buisness does not use it anymore. and the owner is going to let me fish there for now on. Now i didnt get into much detail with him. But is it possible there could be panfish in there to? like crappies,gills? I love fishing for pans as well as i do for bass. Also what woudl you guys recommend for fishign this over populated area with bass lures? I was thinking of sticking with my Heddon Torpedo. I love the bait and never turn my back on it,lol. But i also like to experiement with other baits. The next best bait i ever had luck with whats the 4 inch or 6 inch cant remember Gay Yamayota worms. Smokey purple color. But what would you guys use? Oh and of course i will be seeting up the ultra light rod with nightccrawlers

The next best bait i ever had luck with whats the 4 inch or 6 inch cant remember Gay Yamayota worms.

Now that funny right there. I don't care who you are.  

I'm pretty sure there are panfish in there. The bass have to eat something.

Krugey.

I found an overstocked "double secret" pond and it is fun catching those small bass.

I caught their mother (6 pound beauty) last month.

So what am I doing to help the pond?  I am stocking it with bream and bluegills from another pond. So far, I have transferred 45 bream and bluegills into the bass pond.

I plan to start taking some of the smaller bass to the pond near my house to help stock it.  This pond is loaded with bream and bluegill and crappie and could use some more bass.

Now for lure selection suggestions:

Senkos rigged both Texas and Wacky - 5 inch size should do well but if not, you can scale down to the 4-inch size

Roostertails for bream, bluegills and crappie - white/gray

Small white grubs on small 1/64 jig head on 4 pound line for bream, bluegills and crappie.  Lots of fun to fish.

Rat-L-Traps if the grass is not that thick. Chrome with blue back if sun our; chrome with black back if cloudy

Spinnerbaits - start off small chart/white and then work up in size

Crankbaits, like the Bandit 100 and the Mann's Minus One for fishing over the grass. Firetiger, chart/blue back, anything with charturuse

Topwaters, like a black skirted Cavitron buzzbait, trick worms (pink and white so you can see the fish inhale them), frogs, jiggerbugs, Spooks, Pop-R's, etc.

Finesse Worms rigged Texas and wacky and try some creature baits, too. Watermealon and pumpkin or pumpkin seed. Any color should do well

Jigs and pigs may work. Try blue/black and some sort of brown jig that you have

Drop Shot

Shaky Worm

Split-Shot

Consider using a weedless hook if there is grass or weeds in the pond. A 1/0 or 2/0 should do well unless you start to hit the larger ones and then you may want to go up to 3/0.

You may want to use 8 to 10 pound fluoro and then work up to 14 and 17 pound test if you start catching larger fish.

Remember, mono for treble hook baits.  Braid if you have grass.  Flouro for all other presentations.

As for colors, if the pond is overstocked I would throw Watermealon and Pumpkinseed plastics and you can throw some that have black flake in them, too.  Mocassin Blue, Junebug, any plastic with red or red flake, and just about anything you want to try or have in your tackle box.

If you want to be daring, throw a pink Senko.

In other words, try your luck with all sorts of setups and colors.

You should do well no matter what you throw.

Have fun and post pics for us.  

The next best bait i ever had luck with whats the 4 inch or 6 inch cant remember Gay Yamayota worms.

Gary Yamamoto.

Close though...haha.

Welcome aboard!

I think you can probably do well on just about anything this time of year. I'm fishing the Cavitron Buzzbait in low light and jigs the rest of the time. I might do better with some soft plastics, but I'm afraid I might catch too many!

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hey guys id figure id update you on how the pond was...when we first got there the bass were hammering everyhting we were throwing. from top waters to spinners. but after about 20mins they stop hitting once the wind picked up. did get soem nice yellow perch though. i looked at it like this. Its jus tone of those days were they really were not bitign that day. but the bigges tone out of there that was caught was a 3 pounder. but we brought back about 5 three pounders home. so me and my buddy were still happy