Nice fish, Chatterbait!!!

For somewhat small ponds:

Round 1 around the pond:
Manns 1-
H2O Express Popper
Buzzbait
Pink Trick Worm
Spinnerbait
(add a frog bait for overly weedy ponds)

Round 2/heavy fishing:
Senko
Texas Rigged Worm
Weightless natural colored trick worm

when in doubt pull the senko out. that is all.... continue

5 rattle traps

Sounds crazy but a johnsons silver minnow cast into deeper water and allow to sink then bringnoff bottom always worked for me before I got the trophy striper bug. And for shallower ponds you can't beat a black worm rigged Texas style. IMO

Surprised no one has mentioned a jig. I use 1/8 oz. black/blue Bitsy Bug jig and same colored craw trailer.
Also, 4 inch black yamamoto cut tail worm on a slider spider jig 1/16 or 1/8 oz.
1/16 or 1/8 oz Brown roadrunner
silver Rapala floating minnow # 7 (I think)
watermelon black flake 5 inch Senko.

I will be adding some rooster tail inline spinners to my arsenal based on all the recommendations in this thread. Thanks for the good advice!

Rapala minnow is good. Yozuri is good as well.

7 inch Zoom watermelon redflake u-tail worm t-rigged
Small shallow diving bluegill colored crank bait
Spro baby popper frog in natural color
Beetle spins
Spook jr

LFT Ring Fry

got alot of minnows around the banks use road runners or inline spinners, frogs croaking all over the pond use frogs, crawdad scurrying from bank or fresh holes all over the banks use craw lures, lots of bluegill etc. each pond is diffrent match whats around the natural area for best results. At least thats what id do.

Drop shot 4" black chopper finesse worm
Wacky rigged 5" Senko slim
Yamamoto fluke-bone- 1/16 oz weighted hook
2-4' shallow diving square bill crank bait
Texas rigged chigger craw

Drop shot is my go to. Rip some lips!

By far my favorite lure in a pond is a buzzbait. I use white or chartreuse during morning/daytime and a black one in the evening and at night. It's alot of fun to listen to the "buzz" at night, not being able to see anything at all and then... BAM!!! You'll hear the fish nail it before you can feel the bite on your rod.

I also like the pop-r top water bait for a slower retreive.

I really love pond fishing... still to this day a bass I caught from a small pond as a kid is the biggest bass I ever caught..
but it depends on the pond.. some are deep with little to no weeds.. some are so moss covered you need a frog, or a weedless weightless senko just to get to fish it... some are a combo of both..some are hard to fish and some are much easier...

So you've got to be versatile.. to me topwaters will yield the biggest bass, but you can't use them all the time.. cloudy days, and when its not blazing hot are a great time for them... if I had to pick 4 lures to take.. even though I love buzz baits and frog fishing.. it would be easy..
1.Fluke- watermelon seed
2.powerworm- blue fleck
3.Senko- watermelon
4. ZARA SPOOK

In addition to what has been already shared, consider a Zoom lizard. I like the 4" ones fished weedless and weightless. Bass will often annihilate it as it falls after your first cast.

4� curly tail worm Texas rigged with 1/8 worm weight (Purple/red fire tail)
2� curly tail grub on 1/8 oz jig head, gold spinner harness (Triple ripple)
4� Zoom Fluke hook in nose with worm hook no weight (Baby Bass)
3/8 oz H&H double Colorado blade spinner bait (Chartreuse/white)
2� Hunched back Rebel wake bait (White, silver, Blue top)

I like to make my own hooks for the small plastics. I use the light wire gold hooks in appropriate sizes. They are easy to bend and with 6 to 8 lb line I've never had one fail me. The colors vary. I usually carry an assortment. In the spring I may substitute 4� lizards for the 4� worms. The Wake bait is a good stop and go top-water bait or if cranked to will run about a foot deep. Cranked real slowly it makes a wake and works great.

If I were to add to this I would add a small chartreuse buzz bait and a popper or prop bait. I usually have these in couple of little bitty tackle boxes and baggies. I carry it all with a stringer and pliers in a Carpenters nail apron.