MOPanfisher

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.

Having had tennis elbow at different times in each elbow I can Guarantee you that the stress placed on your wrist/arm is not twaddle. I have always cranked spinning reels left handed and eventually switched to left handed bait casters also, certainly feels wierd for a while but now its fine, and I can use either right or left without a problem, sort of like switching from a manual to an automatic transmission. When the tennis elbow hit my right elbow (casting arm) I was is misery while casting heavy baits, I simply can't cast as far or as accurately with a baitcaster as I can with a spinning rig, however it is getting closer to even. The wind is what really puts me in a bind sometimes, walleye fishing with shad raps which don't cast all that well on a bc anyway toss in a little wind blowing at me and it gets tough to make the cast without a backlash for me. Simply pick up the spinning rod and keep going. In the end it is simply a personal choice, some like one some the other, many of us use both. You won't be laughed out of a boat for using only spinning rigs, nor will someone decline to fish with you because you have a bait caster. And there is a break point between quality and cost, if you have the $ you will never regret a good spinning or casting rig. Many cheaper ones are just fine but you'll never regret a good quality outfit. (until you slam it in a car door, or lose it, or well you get the idea).

Pomme is cold, high, falling lake level and the upper half is muddy. All and all it makes it tough. But like Sandbc said it can only get better. Last year about this time we had a string of 80 degree windy days and the lake temp jump 10 degrees in a week. I'm ready for it to happen again.!!!

In my opinion if you are fishing from the bank or from a canoe then I don't think you will benefit greatly. There is certainly nothing wrong with them I have several and use them. But when I bank fish or float its all spinning, but then again spinning rods/reels is what I grew up with. Didn't own a baitcaster until I was in my late teens.

Sorry the above link no longer works this one should. http://www.nwk.usace.army.mil/Locations/WaterManagement.aspx

While it is an interesting analagy if the Federal Government is the farmer and we are the cattle, it is the worst farmer ever. Farmers go to great lengths to keep the cattle happy, healthy and taken care of. Lest his herd wither and die away. I have a lot of experience with the Federal Gov't and our regulations. While there are cases of graft and corruption occasionally the vast majority is simply waste or overpaying for things and we have done it to ourselves through internal regulations. And anyone who believes a one time, short duration infusion of government funding (ARRA) will bring the economy back is confused. The private sector alone with assitance perhaps will take years to be able to return our economy to its full potential, and a strong thiriving economy will prove a lots more tax revenue.

A final check it appears that all of our ramps are useble, on some like wheatland the road isn't very good but the ramp is fine.

Well it appears the ramps are in better shape than I expected. The best appears to be the Hermitage State Park ramp, clean and dry since they bladed it off. Nemo is fine, the road in is worse than the ramp, and I believe bolivar is useable too.

Will try to get a look at a few today, but most likely they will be snow covered at the least. Certainly the ones that face north will be (Lightfoot and Bolivar), Nemo Landing facing south would be the most likely to be clear. Will post up if I can find out.

Every year one of the problems we have with courtesy docks on Pomme is that the rubber bumper strips get torn loose and or knocked off. It becomes an ongoing battle to keep them in place and maintained in such a way to prevent damage to boats. If you know of a product that works well and is durable please list it and I'll do a little research on it. Remember these docks get the crap banged out of them, unlike a private dock where the owner generally is a little more careful, boaters will come in faster than they should and hit them hard. Oddly enough the best think I have ever found is a hard one to swallow, old tires properly bolted on are tough and will take a lot of abuse, unfortunately they also tend to leave black marks on boats, and look like a hillbilly repair. Any ideas.

Agreed. Definitely dump out the old fuel, and replace the gas line and spark plugs. If it will run then put NON-Ethanon fuel in it and load it with sea foam or similar product and run it it will get better. But yeah if you are going to rely or trust your life to it take it to a marine mechanic to work on.

Technically the boundary line is referred to as the GFTL (Government Fee Take Line), way back when I worked at Table Rock we encouraged any prospective purchaser to have a Ranger come out and take a look before signing anything, seldom was that information passed from the realtor to the prospective purchaser. Currently I work at a much smaller lake and we have gotten the word out to a much larger percentage of the people to contact us before they purchase to find out what you can actually do and not do. OK now for the GFTL, it was surveyed and placed a long time ago, it was done by what is called Metes and Bounds, not just by elevation, chunks of property was were purchased with most attepting to be above the 936.0 elevation which is the top of the flood control pool, in many places for several reasons it didn't go that high (knowingly) which is why there is what is called "flowage easement". The COE purchased the right to flood any property up to the 936 elevation. The reason several homes were flooded in 2011 is simply they are in violation of their flowage easement restrictions and built a house below the 936 elevation. Generally it isn't a problem but occasionally in extreme circumstances they are going to get flooded. Stop by the Dewey Short building sometime and just talk with one of the rangers, they are generally great folks who will do their best to help you out, but remember they aren't going to help you break the rules. Now if you want to talk about lake level fluctuations and how they lakes are regulated we can do that too. But remember even with millions of dollars worth of engineering, plans, calculations and contingincies mother nature still has the big hammer.

The old buoy is no more.

That is a very nice Pomme bass!

Yes it is still there as we have not been out to get it yet, hopefully this week.

OK you guys made me go back this morning with my binoculars. As of right now, there are two "No Wake Idle Speed" buoys placed where they are supposed to be. There is a third buoy just a little further out, binoculars revealed it to be an OLD No Boats buoy, no symbol left on it although you can read the lettering, I will have it removed. The cove is not and will not be a No Boats area, (the symbol is different on them) and since I would be the one applying for a permit change and writing the work order to put them in it won't happen. We did discuss some years back about buoying off around the fishing dock to keep boats away but decided that for no more problems than we have there it simply wasn't worth the time/cost, plus boaters are fishermen too. I will get the old buoy removed. BTW if you guys seem buoys missing (especially Danger buoys) at areas where the COE maintains them, i.e. around the campgrounds, tower and danger buoys please shoot me an e-mail, we don't get to check them nearly as often as we would like to. We do not place or maintain the ones at the Harbor, or around private dock zones. Thanks for getting me to follow up on that one location.

I just checked it to make sure nothing had happened without my knowledge. It still has No Wake Idle Speed buoys. I can's speak to what a particular tournament has declared "off limits" but its not because of the buoys. NOTE: The cove I checked is the one with the two fishing docks and the old closed ramp at the Eastern End of the Dam, near the emergency spillway.

Hope you had a very merry Christmas as well.

What are you referring to as cove #1, I am unfamiliar with that designation. There should not have been any changes in the buoy designations. I will take an actual look today if you clarify which cove it is.

I believe that is the one that have to go North of Preston on 65 Hwy, to Fristoe (actually just south of Fristoe), there is a Rock House on the West side of 65, with some names carved into hedge posts etc. That is the road, can't for the life of me remember the road number (google earth calls it Raven Road) take it West. You will eventually come to a 3 way intersection, left takes you to the Fristoe Gravel ramp, straight dead ends in the powerline, and a right will eventually take you to the mouth of Prairie Creek (I think) and you can see the Fairfield Bridge from the mud/gravel ramp.

My priorities aren't anywhere close to right. I see Pomme 5 days a week but this year have fished it maybe 5 -6 times. Heck its always good to go exploring another part of the lake. Sometimew when the fishing is bad the learning is good. On Truman Monday even though we didn't do well catching we found a couple of places that come spring WILL have walleye on them, or at least they should.

Pretty similar to what I found at Truman on Monday. Pomme is only 0.71 feet low so pretty good shape really. The weather changes really seem to mess with crappie. I did talk to a couple of guys at Nemo yesterday who had 8 keepers and several shorts. Minnoww around pole timber.

Or maybe a Carolina Buckthorn.

So it sounds like a pretty simple replacement of the gasket, any link to where we can get it!