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The ponds I fish are pretty difficult to fish with a spinnerbait. What is the best way to use these from your experience?

What do you mean by difficult to fish?  What conditions make it so.....weeds etc....

Depends on the blade of the spinner-bait.

A willow-leaf blade is meant for weeds and vegetation. It's thin, slender profile allow it to easily run through grass, weeds, etc. A colorado blade is meant mainly for either the helicopter retrieve or just a steady retrieve in open water. Indianna blade is a combo of the colorado and willow-leaf blade, it can be used in weeds, etc. but not real thick.

If the pond makes it difficult to fish a spinner-bait, then maybe a spinner-bait is not the best. I would try plastic worms, jigs or other baits depending on the physical aspects of the pond...

such as, does it have any weeds/vegetation? What kind of cover/structure is in the pond (logs, brush piles, etc.)? How deep is the pond? How big is the pond? What's the water temp?

We need to know all these things before we can help you.

God bless  8-)

I disagree.

In my opinion and experience, a spinnerbait is by far the best bet for any water you fish. I would much rather throw a spinnerbait in a pond that difficult to fish then a jig, worm or crankbait.

For instance, there is a pond close to my house that is behind an apartment complex. The pond is pretty small, but I love fishing ponds that are surrounded by trees, and always calm. The pond is filled with angel hair algae. It sticks on anything. Its impossible to fish a jig, even a worm is difficult. But a spinnerbait, na. If you run it high, close to the surface... and know what you're doing.... it is by far your best bet. If there is any stumps, fall downs, anything at all sticking out of the water... fish it! Run the spinnerbait right through it.

Experiment with colors and blades.

Good luck and have fun.

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Well I don't get hung up or anything, there is green algae on the bottem and some limbs that has fallen off trees all over the place. There is a overflow in the far north east corner. However its not necessarily difficult to fish with the spinnerbait if you know what your doing. I however have no clue how to use a spinnerbait, I read a few articles on spinnerbait but nothing really helped. They didn't go in detail enough such as how you do the retrieve. They just helicoptering or slow roll etc....

Spinnerbaits are almost impossible to get hung up...so if you fish around laydowns and stumps you should be in business.  Keep it off the bottom and out of the algea and you should be alright

Like zara spook said, its extremely hard to get hung up with a spinnerbait, have it knick and bang against the timber and pause slightly, keep reeling it but at a slower turn of the reel, take a look at your lure to see if that type of algea is staying on the lure as well, if the algae is affecting the lure keep it above the algae line, if not then theres no worries and you can use it anywhere, a texas rigged plastic sounds perfect for this situation if you haven't used them yet for this

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Well  I do real fast enough for it to stay out of the algae, I just don't get bites. I think I need something that makes more vibration than a spinnerbait. They just don't seem to bite on them. I've tried, white, red, purple, and black spinners. All of them have been the mini sized spinnerbaits most of them have been the long skinny blades. Some though have been Colorado blades. I just don't think the fish like them.

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