@Bill - I may have not been too clear - I think that the problem is that there are almost no fish in the pond at all. Two of us fished the pond pretty hard last fall the day after they closed on the property and after about 4 hours we had caught less than 8 fish and I think we caught the same one a couple times. We fished it multiple times since then as well. We are catching almost nothing no matter how small we go with the hooks and bait.
I have another neighbor with a neglected pond (there are a lot of those around here) and we can yank fish out of there all day long one after another but they are all very very small except that one big catfish.
We've talked about walking a net across the pond since it's pretty shallow and that will help us see what is in there better. We've also talked about shocking the pond just to see what we are starting with. That may be an option next year.
