Mutton Creek Dock House

[rnmari]

Hi all

Just got back from fishing the dockhouse at Mutton Creek Marina. Lots of people were there early, but only myself, my fishing buddy and three other guys stayed past midnight. Between the five of us only caught two small crappies, which we threw back. Not even any shad in there and we had a green light and a white light going in there. Guess we need to wait a bit longer.

[Phil Lilley]

I love fishing dock houses... used to be one at Cricket Creek Marina on Table Rock but they replaced it with stalls. None on Table Rock now that I know of.

Thanks for the report.

[Danoinark]

There used to be a lighted and heated indoor fishing dock at Lead Hill. It was a good place to spend some cold evenings trying to catch a few crappie. Its no longer there either.

Dano

[Bill B.]

There used to be a lighted and heated indoor fishing dock at Lead Hill. It was a good place to spend some cold evenings trying to catch a few crappie. Its no longer there either.

Dano

One Thanksgiving weekend in the middle 1960s, my dad took me white bass fishing at Lead Hill Boat Dock. We had fished the lake a couple of times before, always in the spring, when the whites were up in Swan Creek. In November, the big whites used to pile up on the channel break out in front of the Lead Hill dock, and people would just slay them on spoons.

Anyway, the first night we were there, we noticed a bunch of cars parked at the heated dock, so we checked it out. The white bass fishing was even better off the dock in the middle of the night than it was on the lake in the daytime. They were stringing up big crappie, too, and even a few rainbow trout. I'll never forget that trip, or what Bull Shoals was like from about 1963 through the late 1970s.