First advice would be to check out some of the articles on this site, look at the rigs page and try and get a few magazines like Improve Your coarse Fishing.
If you're fishing a pond, I'd start with a small waggler float fished bottom end only, plumb the depth and fish overdepth if you are after bream, say 6-12 inches, but vary this if you dont get bites.
I'd maybe try a lighter hooklength, say 2lb as well, a smaller hook say a 16 and make sure your float is not too heavy. You might still get bites from small fish but better fish should turn up eventually.