Pomona Lake is a reservoir in Kansas, near Osage County.
Stocking records show that the following fish or strains were stocked here. A historical stocking does not by itself prove that a self-sustaining population remains today.
Pomona Lake is a reservoir in Osage County, Kansas. Pomona Lake covers about 4,000 acres and holds about 70,600 acre-feet.
Pomona Lake is an Osage River deep water reservoir with creek arms, flooded wood, rocky banks and wide main-lake points. Water level and wind decide whether the best bite is tucked into cover or out on a point.
The reported fish at Pomona Lake include wiper, walleye, saugeye, largemouth bass, and black crappie.
Fish reported from Pomona Lake include black crappie, blue catfish, bluegill, channel catfish, flathead catfish, gizzard shad, largemouth bass, redear sunfish, saugeye, walleye, white bass, white crappie, and wiper. Stocking records for Pomona Lake also list paddlefish and blue catfish, saugeye, and walleye, though that does not mean those fish will be easy to catch on every trip.
For bass at Pomona, fish weeds, wood and shade with a spinnerbait, jig or Texas-rigged worm for largemouth.
For panfish at Pomona, use a small jig or minnow beside brush for crappie, and fish a worm, cricket or tiny jig near weeds for bluegill, redear or other sunfish.
For roaming fish at Pomona, jig a minnow or troll a crankbait along points and deeper edges for walleye, and fish a jig, blade bait or crankbait near the old channel for saugeye, and follow shad with a spoon, jig or small crankbait for white bass, and use a shad-colored swimbait, spoon or trolling lure around open-water baitfish for wipers.
For bottom fishing at Pomona, use fresh cut shad on a strong bottom rig for blue catfish, and put cut bait, a nightcrawler or prepared bait on bottom for channel catfish, and use live bait near wood or a deep hole for flathead catfish.
At Pomona Lake, use a jig, crawler rig or crankbait along points and the old channel for walleye. Follow shad at Pomona Lake with a spoon, swimbait or crankbait for wiper. Fish a small jig or minnow at Pomona Lake beside brush, standing wood or a creek-channel edge for crappie. Work a jig, worm or crankbait near cover at Pomona Lake for largemouth bass.
On a first trip to Pomona, check incoming water, one bend in the old channel and a point near deep water with a moving lure, then slow down with a jig or worm where you get a bite.
Spring around Pomona is a good time to check warm coves and incoming water, and summer is a good time to fish shade, weeds and the first drop into deeper water. Fall around Pomona can bring fish back to windy points and banks, while winter calls for smaller baits fished slowly.
A medium spinning rod with 8- to 10-pound line handles most jigs, worms and small lures at Pomona, while a medium-heavy rod is better for bass jigs and heavier bottom rigs.
Bass and crappie can stay close to wood, while walleye, saugeye, white bass and wipers use the points when shad move outside.
At Pomona Lake, start with a shad-colored swimbait, spoon or crankbait at the depth where baitfish are moving.
At Pomona Lake, watch wind, water color, current and the depth of the first bite. Those clues show whether fish are using the wooded creek arms and main-lake points or a nearby edge.
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Distances are straight-line estimates between mapped water locations.