A Trip to the promised land!!!!

[Alaskageek]

Things just fell into place this week and a guys spring trip out of this hell hole of a city is happening. (9 months of city is way way way to long for this Alaska man!!! Me and a buddy of mine are heading over to our usual spot at Wheatland Park to stay for a week for fishing, drinking, morel hunting, drinking, turkey scouting (no hunting this year, can't afford the tags), and maybe some drinking!!!   LOL!  We'll be heading over on the 27th and staying a week.  Have been watching the Pomme and Truman forums and see some good trips for crappie, white bass and hybrids have been happening.  Sounds like there will be alot of you all heading out over the next week, checking on the status of lake levels and the crappie spawn.  Would very much like any and all reports you can give me on crappie, white bass, hybrids and catfish.  I'm hoping MoPanFisher and Ranger520VX, the resident experts,  are willing to once again point me in the right directions, as you have never led me wrong.  We'll have my fishing boat, with hopefully a working trolling motor this year, but still running a fish locator that is older than I am, which then makes me a little more confident running Pomme than Truman........ Lots of stumps and submerged standing timber in Truman so seems like you've got to really know where the channels are, which is not something the ancient locator i have does.

White Bass

Sounds like the white bass my girl loves should be up the Pomme river a bit, correct?  Can you run far enough up the river, accessing from the lake, to get to where they would be hiding?  A little south of Boliver landing is as far that way as I've been so would love to know if I have no business running my boat up into the river proper.  Same thing as in July, look for them feeding ? Use jigs, topwater and flick a shads?

Crappie:

Sounds like the spawn should be firing up any day now, right?  They seem to be holding in a pre-spawn pattern, hanging at the edges of coves and spawning area's, suspending in 10-20ft or water?  Use jigs and minnows

Catfish:

Still have never really found a good spot for catfish.  I've picked a few up here and there, mostly on jugs left overnight.  I've tried flats, i've tired deep channels, main lake, back of coves with creeks in them, but just have never really found them like I have the crappie and white bass.  I've tried chicken liver, cut bait, hot dogs, sponge baits.

Hybrids:

Have never actually targeted them, or even ever caught one, but there's a first time for everything, right???  Any info here would be awesome!!!!

You can count on me checking things here daily as the minutes slowly grind by until I'm on the road to the promised land!!

Wish you all good luck on the water/in the woods!!!!

[Cal2]

For whites,you can put your boat in on the Pomme river at McCrackin bridge, that is a gravel ramp off PP highway. 

[Alaskageek]

15 minutes ago, Cal2 said:

For whites,you can put your boat in on the Pomme river at McCrackin bridge, that is a gravel ramp off PP highway. 

Marked it on my onXmap, can you not make it there from the main lake?  Looks to be less then a few river miles from Boliver Landing. When you launch there, should I head deeper up the river? or work back towards the main lake?

[Flysmallie]

1 hour ago, Alaskageek said:

Marked it on my onXmap, can you not make it there from the main lake?  Looks to be less then a few river miles from Boliver Landing. When you launch there, should I head deeper up the river? or work back towards the main lake?

You can get there from the lake but there are plenty of obstacles in the way. 

If you do try it from the lake the inside edge of the first big left turn up the river from Bolivar landing might have some fish hanging around. 

[oneshot]

Crazy most my fishing on Pommie has been in the cove above the Dam. Caught everything there.

Catfish I use Sonny’s Blood Dip Bait but Sudden Impact works just as well.

Truman not the Main Lake I always liked Sapps Landing. Go towards the Main Lake come to a bunch of standing timber there usually Crappie there. You get on bends should be good for Catfish.

oneshot

[Alaskageek]

11 minutes ago, oneshot said:

Crazy most my fishing on Pommie has been in the cove above the Dam. Caught everything there.

Catfish I use Sonny’s Blood Dip Bait but Sudden Impact works just as well.

Truman not the Main Lake I always liked Sapps Landing. Go towards the Main Lake come to a bunch of standing timber there usually Crappie there. You get on bends should be good for Catfish.

oneshot

I love Sapps Landing!! One of the first places my father and I hit the crap outta white bass in October, trolling flick a shads.  Tried hitting it this time last year, launched and tried working up toward Truman lake, which is what I think your saying.  Didn't get much past were little mill creek dumps in,  and came across a series of gravel bars that I just couldn't seem to get through unless I wanted to buy a new prop afterwords.  But I also had my son, not a grown man with me so was probably a little more cautious than I can be this year. We caught a few small crappie, but wasn't much happening.   Have you been to Sapps recently?  If so, whats the water level like? 

[MOPanfisher]

Here are a few notes.  Sapp landing, currently at 715 truman lake will be over the parking lot.  Might be down by the 27th.  I think it has to be 712 or less to be able to use that ramp.  However if it is fishing should be good after running some water out of Pomme.  Alternative launch points for Truman would be Fairfield, nice big ramp.  LOZ has been red hot lately with crappie up shallow.  Pomme is dropping hard right now and it's tough unless you fish the piles in 15 to 20 FOW.  However the outflow should drop back to minimal about the middle of next week and then it will be on.  If you want to go to the PP access from wheatland park, know that the bridge is out, being replaced so it's a bit of a detour to get there.  By water from Bolivar landing is doable, go slow and be OUT by dark, the river gets very very dark quickly.  And as mentioned there are a lot of stumps to hit as well.  But it does hold a lot of fish.  Also by road to Bolivar landing will require a detour due to the bridge work as well.  So far this year I am way behind on my fishing, just haven't had the time.

[oneshot]

Haven’t been to Sapps for awhile use to live there.

Fairfield Ramp I go West hit them Coves just around the corner. If you go the other way Fish the Bridge then the Timber where Pomme comes in.

oneshot

[gde878]

If you put in at PP or even if you just fish the river for whites, head upstream from the ramp.  They were above it last weekend.

[Alaskageek]

On 4/18/2019 at 5:02 PM, MOPanfisher said:

Here are a few notes.  Sapp landing, currently at 715 truman lake will be over the parking lot.  Might be down by the 27th.  I think it has to be 712 or less to be able to use that ramp.  However if it is fishing should be good after running some water out of Pomme.  Alternative launch points for Truman would be Fairfield, nice big ramp.  LOZ has been red hot lately with crappie up shallow.  Pomme is dropping hard right now and it's tough unless you fish the piles in 15 to 20 FOW.  However the outflow should drop back to minimal about the middle of next week and then it will be on.  If you want to go to the PP access from wheatland park, know that the bridge is out, being replaced so it's a bit of a detour to get there.  By water from Bolivar landing is doable, go slow and be OUT by dark, the river gets very very dark quickly.  And as mentioned there are a lot of stumps to hit as well.  But it does hold a lot of fish.  Also by road to Bolivar landing will require a detour due to the bridge work as well.  So far this year I am way behind on my fishing, just haven't had the time.

Thanks for all the great info..... yet again MoPan!!!!!  Probably going to try and access Pomme River via the lake first, going really really really slow, and will darn sure be out before dark!!!  But may also try to launch at the bridge and go further upstream, especially if I can't access from the lake.  Can't seem to get a clear enough look at that bridge to see where the gravel launch is at,  and with the bridge being closed, don't want to come in from the wrong side.  Should I come in from the west, taking 83 to PP and in, or should I come from the east, taking State Hwy D to PP and in?

Sapps, really love it and will be swinging by to check the water level on the first day or so of the trip.  Still really want to see if you can run from Sapps to Fairfield or vica versa, again... going very very very slow.  I'm in no hurry on virgin water.