The first fish ive ever fished for was bass before i was introduced to salmon and steelhead but any way i think fishing a pond with weeds across the entire top is the hardest when fishing for bass, I got a similiar pond in my back yard and when the weeds are over the whole top i love using a something very heavy like a nosecone sinker with a natural colored weedless worm to get it below the layer of weeds. But if there are no weeds or very few top water lures are my most favorite out of all bass lures especially buzzbaits.