Best small lake and pond bait for me has been a 1/16or 1/8 oz Vibric Roostertail, brown body with a gold blade. I think you could clean out a pond with one of these, bluegill, bass, channel cats, crappie if present, even caught a few golden shinners on one. They are hard to find and if you do find them I like to remove that stupid shinney sticker on the blade this allows the blade to spin easyier.