Pomona Sunday

[crappieslinger]

Decided to go out a do some structure scanning Sunday at Pomona. Had a great day and found a lot of structure I did not know was there before. The lake was a zoo with all of the pleasure boaters but since I was not fishing and just slowly driving around looking at the bottom, they didnt bother us too much. Most of the pleasure boaters headed in around 5-6pm and left the lake fairly quiet. Once the lake calmed down we could start to see the shad popping on the surface and shortly after the gulls started diving. We stayed in the area and threw spoons and sassy shad and started catching wipers and white bass. They would surface for a few minutes but wouldnt stay up very long. We continued to cast around in the areas they would surface and caught a wiper or a white bass on about every 3rd or 4th cast.
It was a lot of fun catching the wipers on a 5 1/2 foot light action spinning rod! We kept 9 white bass and 3 wipers. The smallest wiper we kept was 19 1/2 and the largest was 23 inches. Also caught a 3-4 lb channel on a spinno-king. Kind of unusual to catch a channel cat on a spoon.
It sure is a lot of fun to get into the wipers when they are surfacing and catch them on light tackle!

The lake is down quite a bit right now. Managed to put a pretty good ding in my prop when I was up 110 mile creek in trees looking around. Of course I couldnt hit a stump, I had to find an old foundation to slap around with my 3 week old prop.... Luckily I was only idling so it didnt tear it up too bad.

[DroptineJoe]

Good job on the wipers!! They are a blast on light tackle!!

[crappieslinger]

You aren't just a woofin! Wipers are a blast to catch especially on light tackle. I used to live in Western Kansas and I fished Webster when it was producing some monster Wipers. My Wifes Grandmother (78 years old at the time) caught an 18 lb Wiper at Webster about 12 years ago. She caught it trolling with a spinning rod pulling a chrome rattle-trap. Last time I was at the bait shop at Webster, her picture was still hanging on the wall. It took her 45 minutes to get it in the boat.

Wipers are my third passion. The surfacing Stripers at Wilson are my second. We used to find the Stripers surfacing at Wilson and could catch 3-15lb Stripers on almost every cast. Talk about a blast!!! Then the white perch showed up and the striper fishing has gone downhill ever since.

[slabby joe]

Sounds like a fun time hooking into those wipers and whites....there's nothing else that's more fun than that ( I probably should take a break from crappie when I'm there and have some real fun) Thanks for the report.