Any Pomme de Terre reports?

[KC Bass Fanatic]

Just got back from a week down at Pomme and fishing was fair. Most of my fishing was low light or at night due to the heat. Fish are on stumps in 10' of water but that bite is hit and miss. Bluffs, main lake points, and brush piles in 10+ ft of water are your best options. I was averaging 5-10 keepers every time out but I had to scratch and claw for those. My best bite is still a shaky head jig w/ a creature bait or finesse worm in 15' of water on points. DD22 bite is decent on points and ledges in 15' of water and these fish are usually 15+ inches.

Fished a tournament Sat night 6pm-midnight. Took 1st w/ only 9lbs. I caught 10 keepers and culled 5 times for 9 measly pounds. Tough bite.

[Mid-MO]

Just got back from a week down at Pomme and fishing was fair. Most of my fishing was low light or at night due to the heat. Fish are on stumps in 10' of water but that bite is hit and miss. Bluffs, main lake points, and brush piles in 10+ ft of water are your best options. I was averaging 5-10 keepers every time out but I had to scratch and claw for those. My best bite is still a shaky head jig w/ a creature bait or finesse worm in 15' of water on points. DD22 bite is decent on points and ledges in 15' of water and these fish are usually 15+ inches.

Fished a tournament Sat night 6pm-midnight. Took 1st w/ only 9lbs. I caught 10 keepers and culled 5 times for 9 measly pounds. Tough bite.

Congrats on the win! Which arm have you been fishing?

[CKFishin]

Just got back from a week down at Pomme and fishing was fair. Most of my fishing was low light or at night due to the heat. Fish are on stumps in 10' of water but that bite is hit and miss. Bluffs, main lake points, and brush piles in 10+ ft of water are your best options. I was averaging 5-10 keepers every time out but I had to scratch and claw for those. My best bite is still a shaky head jig w/ a creature bait or finesse worm in 15' of water on points. DD22 bite is decent on points and ledges in 15' of water and these fish are usually 15+ inches.

Fished a tournament Sat night 6pm-midnight. Took 1st w/ only 9lbs. I caught 10 keepers and culled 5 times for 9 measly pounds. Tough bite.

So you broke the Law and won??? Missouri is a No cull right now.....

[KC Bass Fanatic]

So you broke the Law and won??? Missouri is a No cull right now.....

OMG you're right. I totally forgot about that. I should give the money back.

I was unintentionally breaking the law on the Lindley Arm btw

[eshay]

Has anyone been out lately? Was planning on doing some night bass fishing middle of next week.

[Mid-MO]

We fished from about 7 to noon Saturday. Put in at Lightfoot (haven't fished this area but a couple of times). Started on a flat with lots of wood and docks that led into a small cut. Caught 4 keepers in a couple hundred yard stretch. Nothing bigger than 2 1/2. Went on up the river, hit a few random spots and kept going until we hit a lot of boats already fishing the laydowns and cover along the banks. Tried to idle past them but promptly hung on a stump and decided that was far enough. Turned around and fished a couple of cuts full of trash/laydowns, and a couple of other spots heading back towards the ramp. Found one more 2 1/2 pound keeper on another flat with laydowns and docks. Ended with 5 keepers that went around 8.

Lots of small baitfish in the river, water temps were around 83. Caught our keepers on a crankbait, 10" worm, and tube.

[Derek Chance]

OK guys.....need a little Pomme help. I will be down in mid October. I am a football coach so I am not too familiar with Pomme in the fall. With the lake back to normal this fall what/where am I looking for a good starting point for bass. Typical main patterns, areas, baits will be very appreciated. thanks yall.

[Bluebasser86]

I was at Pomme Monday 10/3 from 7:30 to 7:30. We fished mostly for bass but tossed some bucktails for muskie early and late also. The bass would eat anything as long as it was a shakeyhead on a steep rock or bluff wall in the Lindley arm. We ended up with 44 fish, 14 of those being keepers. All fish were on shakeyheads with trick worms in various colors except for 1 on a jig and 1 on a spinnerbait. Lost one next to the boat that would have kept on a fat free shad. Only managed 1 short in 3 hours of trying in the Pomme arm. No real solid fish, biggest was 15 1/2 inches. My friend broke off a good fish though and missed a couple good bites on a jig. My friend also had a follow and one hit on a bucktail but didn't connect on either.

[PSUGorilla]

anyone have any hot spots I can try this weekend while I over here?

[Derek Chance]

Right now just stick to main lake cuts and throw a squarebill in 5ft or less. the cold weather may change that though. could be really good. can also go to haverstick and throw a blade past as many trees as possible.

[Mid-MO]

Fished Pomme today from about 8:30 to 4. Put in at Nemo and started at Haverstick. Bounced around to a few main lake points, went down around Pittsburg, and finished at Nemo. Water temp was 56-59 down there with limited visibility, especially way up the Lindley. Never put anything consistent together. We caught a couple of a square bill, one on spinnerbait, one on a jig - missed more bites than we caught - and nothing very big or even close to it. By about 12:30 we decided to head to the dam.

Got over on the Pomme and found a little warmer water and a little cleaner. Started in a cove out at the main lake. Worked a shallow stump filled pocket without much luck. Started down the bank and caught a solid 2.5 on a spinnerbait on a flat, empty bank. Got back into some stumps and kept working down the bank with some docks mixed in. Caught a couple off some docks then started catching them shallow on the spinnerbait. Almost had to thrown it on the bank. Worked about halfway back into the cove and then came back out the other side - kept catching fish extremely shallow.

After we had worked that cove, we decided to move to a similar cove and couldn't hardly find a fish in there. We did miss one on a swimbait and caught another solid 2 on it - same thing shallow points. Both of these coves had some big gizzard shad up in the shallows. The wind had really picked up by then. We went back closer to the dam and caught another 2.5 in the wind, shallow on a point. Finished with a couple more keepers.

Ended the day with about 15 keepers - best 5 went about 11.5 pounds. Never found anymore fish as shallow as we did in the first cove in the Pomme. Still caught them in less than 3' of water but not in inches like we found them stacked in that first cove.

Don't know if the fishing was that slow up the river (as we struggled all morning) or if the afternoon bite was just better.

[KC Bass Fanatic]

Fished this past weekend on the Pomme. Bite was slow in the mornings with fish coming early on topwater (buzzbait, popper) and crankbaits (squarebills, med divers). Evening was much better. Saturday afternoon my 5 best keepers were ~15lb w/ a 5lb 14oz kicker. All came on a squarebill in <3' in the 30 minutes before dark.

This time of year on the Pomme just find shallow stumps w/ deep water nearby and chuck squarebills until you find them. If you catch one in an area, saturate every stump from all angles. As with any lake, a lot of it is trial and error until you get a few "proven" spots. My experience on Pomme - the best spots for each season produce year in and year out.

Lake is 1.5-2' low. Water stained up the rivers ~2' visibility 55-57 degrees lake wide.

[Mid-MO]

Anybody been recently?

[Mid-MO]

We put in at Hermitage today about 9:30. Fished till 3:30. Only saw two other boats all day. Water temps were anywhere from 41.7 early to almost 45 (late in the back of a wind blown creek). Fished mainly around the dam. Lake is at normal pool, pretty good water clarity. We had a hard time holding the boat in some spots with the wind gusts.

We caught 7 keepers all on jerkbaits. We threw a wiggle wart and swimbait a little - but stayed with Megabass and McSticks most of the day. Our 5 best went just a little over 14. Two biggest were 3:9 and 3:8. Both of those came late in the day within a hundred feet of one another on a channel bank with some trees, wind, and big rock. One was pretty shallow, the other out in 15' or so. Had a couple hammer the jerkbait, the others we barely even knew they were there. We caught a few in 4'-8' and a couple more in about 12-15. Some on secondary points, some on channel banks. Never caught one on a main lake point. All had a little wind - we stayed out of the strongest wind most of the day.

We talked to one other boat and he had caught 9 keepers - nothing very big he said. Great day to be on the water.

[Derek Chance]

thanks

[KC Bass Fanatic]

Was down this past weekend to put my boat on the water primarily. Threw some jerkbaits around on points with marginal success. Caught 2 small keepers on a secondary point.

I was throwing the Luck E Strike RC STX. Other than the completely junk split rings and hooks, I'm impressed with these. So you're basically paying $8 for a darn good blank jerkbait and you'll need to put $1 worth of good hardware on it. Still $9 not bad and they catch.

Water on the main lake 42-44 degrees and really clear (4+ ft visibility).

[Derek Chance]

If you look carefully, LES is beefing up the split rings. You can definitely tell just by comparing them to another which ones have better split rings. BUT I will say they must have heard the issue because they have some better rings on more current runs.

[Bluebasser86]

If you look carefully, LES is beefing up the split rings. You can definitely tell just by comparing them to another which ones have better split rings. BUT I will say they must have heard the issue because they have some better rings on more current runs.

I've noticed that also on their newer baits that I've bought. I was changing out all the split rings but haven't had to recently.

[Mid-MO]

Fished a small tournament on Saturday on Pomme. Didn't get down as early as I planned on Friday but did get to fish about 3 1/2 hours. Had 7 bites on a jig but only hooked 3 of them. Had a 4 pounder and one about 2. Found them on secondary points leading into small pockets. Met up with Derek and fished the tourney on Saturday. We struggled early. Derek found some fish on a jerbait out on the main lake just in front of bushes in the wind. We were able to catch 7-8 keepers in these types of spots with the jerkbait. We also caught two in the afternoon on jigs. Ended up with 5 that went about 10 pounds. We never could find a bigger bite.

Pomme got a lot of rain and the lake was coming up. Friday was cloudy and a little rainy. Saturday was sunny with very few clouds. We fished quite a few secondarys and down some channel banks without much luck.

[Jig Man]

I'm heading down there on Monday. Any of you guys been lately?

[KCFisherman]

Anyone know if the bass have already spawned at Pomme because of the warmer weather we had earlier? The next full moon will be May 6th and was wondering if anyone thinks there will still be bass on beds at this time??

[KC Bass Fanatic]

Anyone know if the bass have already spawned at Pomme because of the warmer weather we had earlier? The next full moon will be May 6th and was wondering if anyone thinks there will still be bass on beds at this time??

I think some have spawned and some are yet to spawn. I would imagine the major push is over but there will be another surge this next full moon. There are fry up shallow so that indicates many have spawned already.

[KCFisherman]

I was there Sunday and Monday. The fishing Sunday wasnt too good but Monday I killed them. Mostly smaller fish but I did have a couple decent fish about 2/1/2 to 3 pds. Most came on a Ekins black and blue jig with an Ekins trailer. A couple came on a white spinnerbait and even a couple on a Deep Wee R firetiger crank.

[Mid-MO]

Went today from about 8 to 2:30. Spent the whole time in the mid to lower Pomme. Started pretty slow caught a few random fish - small Pomme keepers early. Also caught one big Muskie. As the wind picked up, so did the bite. Caught our best fish on the main lake, in the wind. Probably caught almost 20 bass, most smaller Pomme keepers. Did get in one stretch of bank where we caught 3 between 3 and 4 pounds. Ended up with almost 15 lbs on our 5 best. Most of the fish came on a wiggle wart or spinnerbait - caught a few on a jerkbait. Water temps were in the low 50's, had at least 3' of visibility around the darn. Was cloudy and windy all morning - sun poked out a little later. Our bite died off about noon. Good day to be on the water though (lots of others thought so to - lots of boats out).