Missouri Lakes Fishing Report

Lake - Pomme De Terre 02/11/06:

Slow down, that’s the best advice on Pomme right now; a variety of baits and techniques are working right now if you slow down and fish deliberately. Lucky Craft Pointers and Smithwick Rogues fished slowly on deep mixed rock points and channel banks around pieces of isolated cover will result in several bites if you allow the bait to pause between 10 – 30 seconds between jerks. On sunny days fish flashy colors like American Shad or Clown and on cloudy days switch over to Chartreuse Shad or Tennessee Shad and speed up your retrieve. Deep brush piles on points, channel swings and around docks are holding fish as well, slowly work these brush piles with an Eakins’ jig in Brown / Chartreuse flash with a green pumpkin Chomper jig trailer and make multiple casts from different angles until you get bit.

Crappie fishing is good, live minnows, squirts and small grubs fished over brush in 15’ – 25’ deep have all been effective.