What's the best way to see what's in my pond?

get a cheap fish finder and a small raft paddle around cheap fish finders are about a hundred buck thney give you size of fish and structure and depth some will even show bait fish

Take a small buzzbait and run it across the top all over the pond or you could throw a frog imitation in there too. If there's bass in it they will hit it. Otherwise throw a crawler in there and just wait. Fish the edges of the weedlines. The fish should be around there. Good Luck !!!

Fish it till you catch something different.

I sugest using a spider jig head made by Charlie Brewer's Slider company baited with a night crawler and slowly hopped along the bottom. Just about anything will attack it.

dont use a net or a minnow trap. grab a pole and a bucket of worm/minnow and fish to see what else is in there.

If you know how to use a cast net you could try that without even getting wet. But fishing it would be more fun.

Personally, I would drag it. Depending on it's size try covering at least 1/3 of it. Repeat this several times and see what you come up with. Yes it's tedious but you will know what lies beneath!!!

borrow an underwater camera from the science and natural resources department at your local community college.

if its that dirty of a pond do you really want to eat out of it.

Go fishing

I would try worms with a bobber. If that doesn't work or you tried it then try bass lures or flies.