Farm ponds are great for many of the reasons you mentioned.
Be careful of eating these fish since they are in an area of historic insecticide and herbicides, and not routinely tested like public waters are.
If you live in the southeast, Vic’s advice for golf courses is great. Often their water hazards are heavy with bass, and, if you go out immediately after the sprinklers shut off in the evening (sprinklers get rid of nuisance golfers, an invasive species!

), you may have it all to yourself.
Again, catch and release; I wouldn't eat anything I caught there.
This 8 pounder was caught at a Boca Raton, FL, golf course.
