ive always just gone rambo and fished a texas rigged worm or tube weedless style and just deal with the moss, bass seem to like hanging out in the stuff if you get a bunch on your line just take it off and go about fishing. pulling in a 3 lbs bass and 10 lbs of moss aint nothing new. just something you have to deal with being a small pond you might take a rake and scoop enough out to thin it some. something I did at my buddies pond was get in my jon boat with a rake and trash can and spend all day pulling the stuff out but its alot of work even on a 1 acre pond.