I must say what got me started in the sport of fishing was my firt home purchased that was situated on a man made pond. well it's been about 5 years now and my bass count is growing.

Well to prove to all the folks that say that pond fishing produce no result take a look at this footage of my 3 yrs old son pulling a huge pond raised largemouth.

Follow the link to see the footage.

http://www.facebook.com/v/1188464876945

I have noticed that big bass and other fish can be caught in small ponds. My theory for this is that since the body of water has little to no fishing pressure, the fish are more likely to take what you present to them. I also read in a magazine somewhere that a body of water has a limiting factor of size of fish based on size of water body. 

when I was in my childhood my mothers cousin had a pond that was about 1 1/2 acre's. it had some nice rainbows and very little pressure. I was allowed to go fishing there but with strict guidlines on what I kept and using single hooks and no bait. He would also allow other people to fish if they got permission. However there where some kids next door who would fish over his fence. he ended up having to string several lenths of barbed wire from posts underneath the waters surface to discourage this. If they had only asked he would have probably allowed them to fish. After one of my outings someone came into his property and tipped a statue over into the water that was next to his small boat dock. I was blamed and not allowed to fish there anymore. I caught one of my largest rainbows out of there, it went  around 25 inches. I was very disapointed that I was no longer allowed .

I love ponds the bigest pike and largemouth I got came out of ponds. Its hard to find any up here in MN they freeze out. the day I got that largemouth it looked like I took sandpaper to my thumb. got that many. The pike was awsome got  it on eight pound line nice fight.