Ben - since your pond is new with very few larger panfish try hooking the nose of night crawler on a No 6 aberdeen or similar hook. Work the rig along shore. This will be hard for a LMB to resist with little competition from larger panfish to keep biting the tail off the worm.
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Last edited by Bill Cody; 09/08/15 10:25 AM.
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