Well, I decided to try another new pond because the two I've been going to are filled with weeds and have no areas to cast into : I fished this pond about 3 or 4 years ago when I was a panfisher. The fish I caught looked to be oversized bluegills. They were 7+ inches and were very dark colored almost black. Ever since those days, I haven't fished it since. Now, I go there today and am over excited to see there are no weeds covering the surface! I got a tiny toad hooked up that have caught many bass and a couple of big bluegills. Nothing. Then I notice a little fish making a ripple through the water on one side of the pond...BOOM! A huge splash! Instantly I thought big bass are in this pond. This little event happened 7 or 8 more times within an hour period all in different locations of the pond. I threw out everything I brought with me: Scum frog, tiny toad, hula popper, jitterbug, small crankbaits, buzzbait, senkos, and spinnerbaits. NOTHING. It just bothered me the whole time that I had no bites and there were explosions in the water everywhere!!! There are bull frogs there but I'm thinking there are bass or there are the overly grown bluegills that have grown even bigger because those splashes were no small fish. These splashes had to be 12" + fish. I'm stumped and am thinking of resorting to live bait ahhhh!!! The pond is like a perfect circle, VERY dark water, and has cattails surrounding it except for 3 openings from where I fished. I have no idea what to do. My PB is 18 inches and around 3 or 4 pounds(didn't have scale, estimate) and I'm thinking I could catch one here.

I need help.

Ben

My idea would be that they are gorging themselves on live bait.  Not sure.

If you really want to see what's going on in this pond then you can catch some small bluegills on some corn or whatever you have.  Then use them as bait! You will defnitely find out if there are bass here this way.

Definetly time to resort to live bait and see whats making all the comotion.

try a swim bait similar to the baitfish the bass are feeding on. keep us posted on what happens next time you go out!