Fishing Report For Pomme de Terre Lake, MO

By Rick Seaman

March 11, 2025

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Fishing Report Pomme De Terre Lake, MO

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Popular Fish Species Pomme de Terre Lake, MO

Largemouth Bass

Current Report: Good
Outlook: Good To Very Good

Pomme de Terre Lake is strewn with brush and wood. inter-mixed with rocky bottoms. This provides ideal habitat for bass, which reproduce in good numbers and are eager to bite. While a wide variety of lures are catching nice bass here, stick worms rigged wacky style, are among the top producers. Vibrating jigs and spinnerbaits also work well, especially when bass are in shallow water to feed.

Black Crappie - White Crappie

Current Report: Good To Very Good
Outlook: Very Good To Excellent

Crappie fishing has been excellent at Pomme de Terre Lake for several years now. Good spawns, fertile water and plenty of food are helping crappie grow big, and in good numbers, here. Spring is the premiere time to be on the water as crappie move into shallow coves to spawn. Brush, wood and deep vegetation are a good place to cast crappie jigs, or live minnows with a bobber. Light tackle with 4 lb to 8 lb line is ideal. Locals report good success using fish finders to locate schools of crappie when they move to deeper water in Summer and Winter.

Muskie

Current Report: Good
Outlook: Good To Excellent

According to reports by the Missouri Department of Conservation muskie have been stocked in Pomme de Terre Lake for over two decades. They are voracious eaters, feeding primarily on shad, but will also eat small sunfish, frogs and crayfish. Muskie over four feet long have been recorded on numerous occasions. Muskie like cold water and stay fairly deep until Fall, when the shallows cool. Topwater baits like the Whopper Flopper, and other large lures, are catching big muskie when conditions are right - cool water and low light. Big crankbaits, casting when they are shallow, and trolled when they are deep, also catch some nice muskie pretty regularly.

Fish species to fish for...

Guide to fishing for largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, spotted bass, channel catfish, flathead catfish, black crappie, white crappie, walleye, bluegill, white bass and muskie at Pomme de Terre Lake in Missouri.

Pomme de Terre Lake is a 7,800-acre lake in the southwest part of the state with over 100 miles of shoreline, and plenty of places for fishing from the bank. Fishing for bass, walleye, catfish, crappie, muskie and other species is popular at Pomme de Terre Lake.

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Rick Seaman is a fishing enthusiast with over five decades of fishing experience, a retired tournament fisherman, author of numerous published articles on fishing, and co-author of the book "Bass Fishing - It's not WHAT you throw, It's WHERE you throw it".