Any Good Fishing Ponds Near Springfield

[jimithyashford]

I don't remember where in the state I was, but a few years ago me and a friend pulled into a little RV campground spot to get some road snacks, and the guy running the place sold home-made flies. We got to talking to him about fishing and he pointed to a large mounted bass over the counter. He said that on the back end of the campground there was a large pond where you could paddle little boats and fish if you had a paid camping spot, and that the Bass came out of that pond. He extolled the virtures of the fishing pond and said that since they don't advertise it, it's not that heavily fished. He said that we were welcome to come back and if we just wanted to fish it would be $6 a day to just head back there and fish. We never went back and I don't remember the spot. BUT that got me thinking,

there must be plenty of good stocked ponds in the area, maybe ponds that people don't want widely advertised but that a nice quite young fella wanting to introduce his GF to fishing might be able to get day access to for a small fee?

Does anyone know of anything like that?