'Round these parts, the ponds are fully of sunnies that you can catch with a few yards of line, a small hook and piece of plastic/fabric/tinfoil/insect/worm for bait.

One time they just weren't biting and I kept thinking "What could they be eating today? What are they waiting for? What would I eat if I was a fish? There shure are a lot of japanese beetles on the weeds near the edge of the water. What... Oh, duh!"