What are the best shoreline techniques to use?  Drop shot?  Jigging? Deadsticking?  Hard lure retrieve?  live bait?  spinnerbait? Texas Rig?  Carolina Rig?  Wacky style?  What do you recommend?  

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Use any technique that seems to fit the conditions. In my case, it's mostly topwaters, soft plastics, shallow crankbaits and spinnerbait/Chatterbait-type lures.

I pond fish alot here in south florida. I walk the bank in canals and ponds here and you have to plan for the water that your fishing. If your in a golf course or community pond you can find less weeds so I have had better success with crank baits and jigs .  Some ponds are very weedy so I use frogs and skinny dippers and rage tail shads and toads.  

In most of the canals  What I recommend is a t rig set up. Small light weightsat most  1/4 ounce covers most for me. I use strike king coffee tubes, Sweet beavers and flirts.  

In the Rocky ponds I use a KVD 7 foot 10  cranking rod  paired with the new energy power reel. I can reach place most cant with this rod. I use a series 4s most of the time or a series 5 crank bait. It allows me to cover a lot of water and catch some good fish.