At my place I use most any minnow/shad looking soft bait with a single hook jig head. You can cast it and swim it back or drag it slowly across the ponds bottom. Swimming it just fast enough to where it does not lay still on the ponds bottom. Or you can drop shot the same type of bait and or Carolina rig it. All of the above have caught some up to 5+ lbs. A sassy shad or the Power bait minnow works and so does soft plastic cigar shaped paddle tail swim baits. My largest came off a 1/2oz double willow leaf spinner bait. But my favorite way is to catch them with a fly rod using some poor/sad looking shad type fly that I made lol. Keep chunking, if they survived you should catch one. From everything I have read about your pond setter, I would suspect at least half of the stocking survived. Best of luck to you Or maybe add some more to your pond this spring or fall.
Last edited by TGW1; 05/07/1901:08 PM.
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Or maybe add some more to your pond this spring or fall. 
