I use tungsten ice fishing jigs under a small slip bobber in my pond (and darn near every where else I fish) to catch fish. I tip the tiny jigs with northland, gulp, or bobby garland bg/crappie sized plastics. Sometimes I use red worms. Crickets are awesome but I never use them on my pond.

How are you catching your HSB? I've always heard they're hard to catch in ponds (super easy to catch on river backwaters lol) and it seems true on my pond. I haven't even seen the 175 hsb since stocking them last fall


Mat Peirce
1.25 acre southeast Iowa pond
LMB, BG, YP, WE, HSB, RES, BCP