Table Rock Lake fishing: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Black Redhorse
Target species: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Black Redhorse, Golden Redhorse, Northern Hog Sucker, White Bass, White Crappie
Boat: 3 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Big Bay Day Use.
The lake
Table Rock Lake covers 49,601 acres in Missouri, across 3 counties: Stone, Barry and Taney. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is ≈219 feet (66.6 m). Our records hold 18 species for this water. 4% of the water lies in Arkansas.
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: ≈219 ft (66.6 m).
7 target fish, led by Largemouth Bass
- Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
- Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
- Black Redhorse — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
- Golden Redhorse — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
- Northern Hog Sucker — Feeding water: 50–70°F.
- White Bass — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- White Crappie — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
Also recorded here: Striped Bass, Channel Catfish, Spotted Bass, Highfin Carpsucker, Bluegill, Green Sunfish, Longear Sunfish, Gizzard Shad, Golden Shiner, Brook Silverside, Threadfin Shad.
Water and conditions
Water clarity runs 2.5–8.4 feet on our readings, averaging 5.4 feet, from 1,056 readings. Our water temperature readings average 80°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. The coldest single reading we hold is 48°F and the warmest is 92°F; the warmest monthly average is 86°F. pH averages 8.3. These readings span 2017–2024.
3 ramps and launches on this water
On this water we hold 3 boat ramps.
- Big Bay Day Use — US Forest Service. website fs.usda.gov/recarea/mtnf/recarea/?recid=21742
- Holiday Island Boat Ramp — on White River, Holiday Island.
- Cricket Creek Marina 20515 Boat Dock Road 7266
Fee and opening hours are blank for all 3 places in this list: a blank means we hold no such field, not that it is free or always open, and this list may not be complete.
What is hard here
Wind is the limit, not the fish: 49,601 acres of open water build a short steep chop, and there is no shelter in the middle. Clarity swings from 2.5 to 8.4 feet between our readings — the water you meet is not the water someone photographed. Summer water sits at 86°F: heat and afternoon lightning are the real risks, not the fishing.
Where this data comes from
- USGS — USGS reservoir bathymetric surveys (ScienceBase): class A, a survey of the bottom.
- Webster, K.E., McCullough, I.M., Soranno, P.A. LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0, EDI, doi:10.6073/pasta/64ddc4d04661d9aef4bd702dc5d8984f (CC BY 4.0); Cheruvelil et al. LAGOS-US LOCUS v1.0 (EDI) — LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0: Lake depth for 17,675 lakes in the conterminous U.S.: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map.
Part of these depths rest on an averaged water level, so they are approximate (≈).
