MOPanfisher

We are approaching our target elevation for this time of year of 841.0. By noon today we should be shut down to 500 CFS. HOWEVER there is one last swift water training class Thursday and Friday this week, during which we will release 2000 CFS for their training purposes. What I am trying to say is that Pomme will be fairly stable for a few days and this time of year you know what that should mean. Go get em, hopefully I will get a chance to get out as well.

What BPS gift cards are worthless junk made in china!! Sometimes we all just get a little uptight. I like shopping at BP and cabelas, and Academy and many other places. Some store brands are good on some products some are not. Thats why you do your homework. I worked at BPS in springfield while in college, loved it there, didn't get rich by any means (dang employee discount nearly bankrupted me). Some employees have a great deal of knowledge, other mere appear to have. I was hired after an interview where the then manager of the hunting dept. and I got into a discussion of reloading, later transferred to the fishing and worked for Jack Emmett, truly enjoyed both deptartments.

Fished yesterday in the Browns Bend area. Report from the day before from a friend was that it was his best crappie fishing day ever. Not quite so good fo us. Did manage to get a limit but had to work at it. No pattern, a few on the pea gravel spawn banks, a few around some logs, some around docks etc. etc. Some pretty nice one and several shorts. of the 15, 2 were males and one was a female spawned out, the rest were big bulging belly females. I did catch one was was spewing eggs all over me, so it is happening. Didn't catch a white bass at all, which surpirsed me.

Having deployed for several hurricanes and for the Joplin tornado I can tell you that there is a LOT of difference between the two. Joplin had a tremendous loss of life, but it was not wiped off the map, a swatch roughly a mile wide and 7 miles long was pretty much destroyed and 160+ people died, horrible. Move a few blocks off the path of the tornado and you are back into a semblance of normalcy. Now Hurricane Katrina a swath of say 200 miles wide by 30 or more deep, with no electric, few habitable homes etc. etc. and you begin to see the difference in scale. Add in the difference in population density between tornado alley and the Eastern seaboard, along with the cost of living there and it quickly adds up. I'm certainly not saying Joplin was a minor incident, but in my mind when a big natural disaster happens it is part of the job of the federal government to come in and help restore order and basic necessities such as roads, water and electric. FEMA has a lot of different rules for private property depending upon insurance etc. etc. Do I think that the Government should pay for the re-building of the homes, no, maybe underwrite the loans or something but not simply build them a new house. I'll not even get into the politics of disaster recovery efforts.

Had some good reports from both LOZ and Upper Truman. Of course that was before the cold front. Loz report was from the Browns Bend Area, crappie up shallow (males) and females out from the banks aways. That was Sunday. I believe also sunday from truman in the Upper Pomme River area crappie were being caught from the banks. By the weekend it should be improving again. Loz usually gets hot first followed by upper ends of Truman and later Pomme. Stockton I haven't heard anything from.

From what reports I have heard its been pretty slow. Rains, heavy inflows, lake rising then falling with releases has made it tough for any sort of pattern to develop. Hopefully someone has a better one.

as of 1100 hrs we are back up to 2800 CFS release.

Don't know for sure, but I would expect that they are beginning to release water already, and depending upon rainfall will continue and or increase it depending upon conditions (flooding) at St. Louis.

We will even write it on a permit and give you a copy. I well remember the tornado incident at Pomme.

We received permission to increase our outflow early! By end of today we will be at 2000 CFS.

If his fine was 4-5 thousand dollars then he was doing more than just trimming a little brush and a few limbs. As for making a check out to the ranger if that happened it is illegal. They do not accept payment on the spot, it has to be mailed in to Atlanta GA or something like that. The rules are pretty simple, just not real popular on COE Lakes. Ask them for a copy of the Shoreline Management Plan, heck it might even be on line. Having heard many many stories of what a COE Ranger did over the years I have learned that most of the stories are bogus. The adjacent landowner got caught, got a fine, and didn't like it.

I would guess that sunday or monday at the latest we will begin increasing the outflow. Some crappie, whites and a few hybrids were being caught before the outflow was shut down to 100 CFS today. There were some nice crappie being caught for a few hours after the shutdown in the stilling basin, but it died out. Probably still plenty of fish in the river if you launch a boat and fish the deeper holes in the river all the way down to rough hollow. And if conditions on truman are good I think the Sapp landing area might warrant a try. If you are fishing from the bank probably not looking good. Heard several reports before the rain of lots of crappie, and the occasional toothy critter in the old channel below truman. Its got to settle down eventually doesn't it??? And when it does it should be going eveywhere at once, at least in my mind it will be. Crappie, walleye all of it. I say as I am slowly digesting a meal of grilled hybrid (butter, garlic powder and lime juice brushed on them, and liberally seasoned with cajun seasoning) and skillet fried hashbrowns with onions and a couple jalapenos chopped up in it.

Latest update. Due to heavy rainfall and downstream flooding the outflow was cut from 2800 to 1500 CFS around 0400 hrs this morning and we shut it down to 100 CFS about 0730. Will remain until downstream flooding subsides and we can again begin to open it up.

http://www.nwk.usace.army.mil/Locations/WaterManagement.aspx Ok the link above should go to our water management website, you can select the 3 day resevoir forecast. Generally for Pomme they usually forecast it to rise higher than it normally does. having said that it will fall short on the next one probably. For what it takes to make the forecast they do a dang good job of forecasting.

Our target lake level for this time of year is 841.0. It looks like without any rainfall we would begin cutting back in a couple days, however the forecast looks like rainfall is almost a certainty. Should we get heavy rain overnight into early morning we will shut down early in the morning so as not to create any flooding problems on the river should the rains come fast and heavy. The lake will catch the inflow from Pomme and Lindley and of course begin to rise again, once the downstream conditions allow we would once again increase the inflow to begin drawing it back down to the target of 841.0 I will see if I can link the lake level forecast page.

Doubt they will find much in the way of white bass, still recovering from the last die off a couple years ago. Water is stained to dingy depending on where they fish, rain will definitely change it. Also planning on increasing the outflow from current of 800 CFS to probably 2000 on Tuesday (depending on rain) so that will affect it also. Haven't heard any crappie reports lately, except for below the dam on the river even as far down as rough hollow bridge. I went Friday afternoon to Lake of the Ozarks and while fish were there, never really got into them really good, for a couple hours in mid afternoon they hit pretty good under the docks but that was it. Wish I could give a better report. Spring, crappie and weather changes go together it seems like.

Well its april, gonna be windy and warm, lake stable over the weekend. I certainly at some point would be throwing some jerk baits. Water is going to stained just about everywhere, not muddy but stained for sure. Likely to be some warmer water up the river. Warm wind this weekend should begin to bring the water temp up, right now at the dam it is 47 surface temp at about 0800.

The article is pretty vague, but I think I heard on the news he fell off a dock. Regardless prayers to his family.

For those who might want to know. Today (thursday April 4 ) we are decreasing our outflow to 800 CFS (from 2800 CFS). Will run until probably early Tuesday at 800 CFS then will be raising it to somewhere around 2000 CFS. Also the Missouri State Highway Patrol will be conducting a Swift Water Training Class below the dam in the river so if you were planning on fishing immediately below the dam on Tues-Friday there will be boats and rescue swimmers in the water training to save/rescue victims please don't hinder their training. On the plus side reducing the outflow over the weekend may make fishing on the lake get better for a few days.

Dang that was a tough day, even for Pomme.

Hey Ed, I saw you there yesterday, I was the guy near the fence that asked you if you were seeing anything on the graph! I went home with a couple keeper walleye and tossed back a short one. There were several caught along the bank, and a couple females as well. The Clown suspending rogue is a favorite for many off the bank, but as I didn't have one I caught them on a suspending rebel of some chrome,green,purple color. But at least one was caught on a grub and one on a shad rap that I know of. Should get nothing but better. Get the rogue down to depth and keep it there with occasional twitches, some guys fish it with hard jerks like for bass but many were doing better with a much slower retrieve.

CrappieJerk, was at Little sac last week before the rains and after. Before there were several small white bass males willing to play, after there were a couple small keeper walleye hungry. Should be back to about where the whites are hungry, and maybe a walleye as well.

There is another that has hit some kansas and oklahoma lakes in the last couple years. Blue-Green algae which caused more problems due to the toxin contained in the algae.

Welcome, Pomme is a great little lake. Not quite as forgiving as Truman or LOZ, but when she is hot it is ON! What area of the lake do you normally fish?

I assume that Hermitage Landing is the Hermitage side of the Pomme de Terre State Park, although I've not heard it called that before. Which could be confusing because there is a boat ramp on the river, right at the south edge of hermitage. But is a river not a lake access. The Pomme de Terre State Park (Hermitage Side) is a lake access, also known as "state park ramp", Buttons Cove Ramp, and probably a few others.