Relatively new/amatuer fisherman wanting to know what your "go to" lure is? Im trying to build up my tackle box and would like to know what you use the most. Thanks Everyone!

spinner bait, broken minnow, any type of top water, 3-4 inch rubber grubs with weedless hooks

get a hand ful of worm hooks and a few bags of bullet weights and some zoom baby brush hogs in watermelon, and berkly powerbait black/chart tail woirm , and a bag or flukes. And a rattle trap in silver. and you can go wrong with an inline spinner (rooster tail,pather martin, mepps, etc)

I usually pull out the Banjo Minnow. You can pick them up at any Bass Pro Shops. They really are a good lure with great action!

In ponds go small on the lures and light on the lines. The inline spinners are just very hard to beat, i.e. rooster tail, etc. as mentioned above by Fancy....but the most fun way, IMO, to fish a pond is with the fly fishing approach. Very versatile and actually more effective in ponds than conventional, again IMO.

Bigjig44 is right. A 3" banjo in a pond is deadly. You can use it so many ways. When it is hot in summer go out early and late and throw it real shallow and just keep it on top like a shad jumping. Then other times jig it like a dying minnow. I have catch catfish,crappie,sandbass, and lm bass on it. I call it my pond killer.

Get you a selection of Rebel tiny crawdads in various colors.

They are deadly in the private ponds and community lakes around here.

Barring a sudden cold front, we have never been skunked when tossing out the tiny Rebel crawdads.

Chuck

when im fishing in pressured ponds and the bite gets slow, i tie on a 4" senko and dead stick it

I'm with MeadowLark. The vast majority of my bass and crappie from small waters have been small spinners. The only thing that has come close for me is minnows. They are cheap and many are interchangeable, so you can change spinners, jig head, and body.