Fishes Table Rock Lake
Reservoir · Ozarks · Missouri
Table Rock Lake Fishing Guides
43,100 acres and 745 miles of shoreline in the Missouri Ozarks above Branson, and probably the best spotted bass lake in the country.
Map of the Table Rock Lake
42 numbered points: 9 access points, 3 campsites, 7 bridges, 19 parks and conservation areas, 2 agency offices, 1 hazard, 1 USGS gauge. Tap a marker for details. Reviewed Sep 23, 2026.
- Access / boat ramp (9)
- Campsite (3)
- Bridge crossing (7)
- Park / conservation area (19)
- Agency / conservation office (2)
- Dam / hazard (1)
- USGS gauge (1)
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| # | Point | Type | Lat, Lon | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | USGS gauge - White River below Table Rock Dam near Branson Gauge coordinate from the site roster | USGS gauge | 36.59539, -93.31106 | Coordinate taken verbatim from the water's roster record, not typed by hand. OSM monitoring station n12092126118 of the same name sits about 180 m away and confirms it. The water page itself carries no USGS link. |
| 2 | Table Rock Dam USACE - impounds the White River | Dam / hazard | 36.59594, -93.31106 | Concrete gravity and earthfill dam at the foot of the lake; MO 165/265 crosses on the crest. Six further spillway and embankment sections are mapped separately in OSM and belong to this same structure. |
| 3 | Table Rock Resident Office and Visitor Center US Army Corps of Engineers | Agency / conservation office | 36.59353, -93.31503 | The Corps project office at the dam. The Peninsula Observation Loop and the White River Valley trailheads are within a kilometre of it. |
| 4 | Table Rock State Park boat ramps Missouri State Parks - off MO 165 | Access / boat ramp | 36.58129, -93.31148 | Four ramp lanes are mapped along this shoreline between the dam and the campground and OSM names none of them; this point is the lane closest to the park office. Reverse geocoding puts the other three on the Table Rock Lakeshore Trail. |
| 5 | Andrews Landing Campsite on the state-park shoreline | Campsite | 36.58387, -93.30780 | Mapped as a camp site and a caravan site at the same spot just north of Table Rock State Park. OSM carries no operator for it. |
| 6 | Table Rock State Park Missouri State Parks | Park / conservation area | 36.58440, -93.30601 | The park office (w263572424) stands at the entrance about 0.4 km away, and the Lakeshore Trail and Chinquapin Trail trailheads are inside the park. |
| 7 | Table Rock State Park Campground Missouri State Parks | Campsite | 36.58067, -93.30390 | OSM maps two loops here, Campground 1 and Campground 2. This point is Campground 1; the second loop lies about 0.4 km south along the shore. |
| 8 | Table Rock State Park Marina Concession marina - Missouri State Parks | Access / boat ramp | 36.57795, -93.30483 | The marina at Table Rock State Park. The park's launch ramps are a separate point a little over a kilometre back toward the dam. |
| 9 | MO 86 bridge - Long Creek arm Taney County, Missouri | Bridge crossing | 36.52708, -93.30300 | MO 86 crosses the Long Creek arm here, the first road crossing upstream of the dam on this side of the lake. |
| 10 | Long Creek Park GNIS record - Long Creek arm | Park / conservation area | 36.52062, -93.30435 | Corps shoreline area from a bare GNIS import - no operator, no facilities and no ramp are mapped, so no launch is asserted here. |
| 11 | Cricket Creek Marina USACE Cricket Creek Public Use Area - Arkansas | Access / boat ramp | 36.48302, -93.30010 | Marina mapped 16 m from the Cricket Creek public use area node (n359011843); the two are one site and ship as one point. This is the lake's Arkansas end. |
| 12 | AR 311 bridge - Long Creek arm Carroll County, Arkansas | Bridge crossing | 36.46347, -93.31112 | The Long Creek arm reaches south into Arkansas and AR 311 crosses it here. |
| 13 | Old Highway Eighty-Six Public Use Area GNIS record - Corps shoreline | Park / conservation area | 36.56110, -93.31574 | GNIS carries this place twice, as a park and as a public use area, a tenth of a kilometre apart; one point ships. No ramp is mapped, so none is asserted. |
| 14 | Coombs Ferry Park GNIS record - Corps shoreline | Park / conservation area | 36.61446, -93.33906 | Also carried in GNIS as Coombs Ferry Public Use Area (n358065409) at the same place. No ramp or facility is mapped here. |
| 15 | Cow Creek Park GNIS record - Corps shoreline | Park / conservation area | 36.56645, -93.39296 | Also carried as Cow Creek Public Use Area (n358065424) 20 m away; one point ships. No ramp is mapped. |
| 16 | MO 13 bridge - Kimberling City Stone County, Missouri | Bridge crossing | 36.62368, -93.42058 | The Kimberling City bridge, the main MO 13 crossing of the lake and the usual dividing landmark between the upper and lower ends. |
| 17 | Mill Creek Park GNIS record - Corps shoreline | Park / conservation area | 36.59500, -93.44002 | Also carried as Mill Creek Public Use Area (n358065421) at the same place; one point ships. No ramp is mapped. |
| 18 | Baxter Public Use Area GNIS record - Corps shoreline | Park / conservation area | 36.57090, -93.49519 | GNIS carries this name twice about 0.2 km apart; one point ships. No ramp or facility is mapped, so none is claimed. |
| 19 | Big Indian Public Use Area GNIS record - Corps shoreline | Park / conservation area | 36.55979, -93.49963 | GNIS carries this name twice about 0.1 km apart; one point ships. No ramp is mapped here. |
| 20 | MO 39 bridge - Shell Knob Barry County, Missouri | Bridge crossing | 36.61447, -93.61676 | The Shell Knob crossing, MO 39 over the main lake. |
| 21 | Viola Public Use Area GNIS record - Corps shoreline | Park / conservation area | 36.56202, -93.59586 | Corps shoreline area from a bare GNIS import - no operator, no facilities and no ramp are mapped, so no launch is asserted here. |
| 22 | MO 86 bridge - Eagle Rock Barry County, Missouri | Bridge crossing | 36.50278, -93.60045 | MO 86 crosses the upper lake here, on the Eagle Rock side. |
| 23 | Kings River Public Use Area GNIS record - mouth of the Kings River arm | Park / conservation area | 36.55217, -93.61040 | Corps area at the Kings River arm. No ramp is mapped in OSM, so no launch is asserted. |
| 24 | Viney Creek Public Use Area GNIS record - Corps shoreline | Park / conservation area | 36.56702, -93.67712 | Corps shoreline area from a bare GNIS import - no operator, no facilities and no ramp are mapped, so no launch is asserted here. |
| 25 | Highway M Public Use Area GNIS record - Corps shoreline | Park / conservation area | 36.55785, -93.67686 | Corps shoreline area from a bare GNIS import - no operator, no facilities and no ramp are mapped, so no launch is asserted here. |
| 26 | Campbell Point Campground US Army Corps of Engineers | Campsite | 36.59579, -93.55153 | Corps campground at Campbell Point, tagged with USCOE as operator - one of the few camp sites on this lake that OSM attributes to an agency. |
| 27 | Campbell Point boat ramp USACE Campbell Point Public Use Area | Access / boat ramp | 36.59755, -93.54997 | A mapped slipway at the Campbell Point public use area (n358063357), 40 m away. The Corps campground stands about 200 m along the shore. |
| 28 | Big Bay Public Use Area GNIS record - Corps shoreline | Park / conservation area | 36.61840, -93.56741 | Corps shoreline area from a bare GNIS import - no operator, no facilities and no ramp are mapped, so no launch is asserted here. |
| 29 | Cape Fair Marina Cape Fair Park Road - USACE Cape Fair Public Use Area | Access / boat ramp | 36.72138, -93.53328 | Marina, a mapped ramp (n10657457504) and the Cape Fair public use area node (n358063408) all stand within 0.3 km of each other; they are one site and ship as one point. The road name comes from a reverse geocode. |
| 30 | MO 173 bridge - James River arm Stone County, Missouri | Bridge crossing | 36.75667, -93.51808 | MO 173 crosses the James River arm above Cape Fair. |
| 31 | MO 76 bridge - Cape Fair Cape Fair, Stone County, Missouri | Bridge crossing | 36.72736, -93.49754 | MO 76 crosses the James River arm at Cape Fair. |
| 32 | Highway Thirteen Public Use Area GNIS record - Corps shoreline | Park / conservation area | 36.71949, -93.49102 | A Corps shoreline area carrying this name about 11 km from the MO 13 bridge itself; the GNIS placement is what it is and no ramp is mapped here. |
| 33 | Hideaway Marina Marine fuel dock mapped on the shoreline | Access / boat ramp | 36.66540, -93.49649 | Carried in OSM as a fuel point rather than a marina polygon, so the sheet claims a fuel dock and slips and not a launch ramp - none is mapped. |
| 34 | Jackson Hollow Boat Launch Mapped slipway - name declares a launch | Access / boat ramp | 36.67473, -93.48392 | The name is the evidence here: OSM gives no operator and there is no agency page tying it to a Corps park, but the slipway itself is mapped on the shoreline. |
| 35 | Aunts Creek boat ramp USACE Aunts Creek Public Use Area | Access / boat ramp | 36.67117, -93.46277 | Mapped slipway 0.1 km from the Aunts Creek park and public use area GNIS pair (n358065470, n358065445); one access point ships for the whole site. |
| 36 | Joe Bald Park GNIS record - Corps shoreline | Park / conservation area | 36.60701, -93.47019 | Corps shoreline area from a bare GNIS import - no operator, no facilities and no ramp are mapped, so no launch is asserted here. |
| 37 | Highway Thirteen Park GNIS record - Corps shoreline | Park / conservation area | 36.63395, -93.41658 | A second GNIS record using the Highway Thirteen name, about 11 km from the public use area of the same name and nearer the bridge. No ramp is mapped. |
| 38 | Indian Point Park GNIS record - Indian Point | Park / conservation area | 36.63023, -93.34861 | Also carried as Indian Point Public Use Area (n358065434) at the same place. Two further slipways are mapped a kilometre away on Timberlane Point Road but nothing names them, so they are not shipped. |
| 39 | Jake's Point Shoreline point - Indian Point area | Park / conservation area | 36.62590, -93.33842 | Named shoreline park on the Indian Point peninsula. No ramp is mapped. |
| 40 | Chateau Marina Chateau on the Lake resort - Long Creek arm | Access / boat ramp | 36.61520, -93.30862 | Resort marina 0.1 km from the Long Creek public use area node; it is the last marina on the lake above the dam. |
| 41 | Moonshine Beach Park US Army Corps of Engineers | Park / conservation area | 36.60973, -93.31046 | Corps day-use area and swim beach just above the dam. GNIS also carries Long Creek Public Use Area (n358065416) 0.1 km away and the two look like one site under two names. |
| 42 | Shepherd of the Hills Fish Hatchery Missouri Department of Conservation | Agency / conservation office | 36.59812, -93.29901 | The hatchery sits about a kilometre below Table Rock Dam on Lake Taneycomo rather than on this lake, but it is the agency facility at the dam and the visitor stop most anglers here will want. |
Guides on the Table Rock Lake
Claimed profiles take booking requests. Unclaimed profiles are built from public records so the river is never empty; the guide can claim or remove one any time.
About the Table Rock Lake
Table Rock Lake runs 79 miles through the Missouri Ozarks behind a 252-foot dam at Branson, covering 43,100 acres with 745 miles of shoreline. It sits between Beaver above and Lake Taneycomo below, and it has spent decades as one of the most heavily fished and most closely studied reservoirs in the country. Bass tournaments have been won and lost here often enough that its patterns are better documented than almost any other lake in the Ozarks.
The headline fishery is black bass, and specifically spotted bass. Table Rock produces spots in numbers that few lakes anywhere can match, holding on chunk rock, bluff ends and deep points, and they are the fish that keeps the lake honest through the hardest parts of summer and winter. Largemouth are strongest in the James River and Kings River arms where there is more cover and more colour to the water. Smallmouth favour the clearer main-lake rock toward the dam and are the prize of a cold-water day. White bass run the upper arms in spring and school on the surface in autumn, and walleye are taken on the same spring runs and by trolling later in the year.
Crappie hold on brush, of which the lake has a great deal, both natural standing timber and sunk piles. Bluegill and channel and flathead catfish fill in the rest.
Table Rock is operated for flood control on the White River, so the pool moves through the year and can move quickly after Ozark rain. Where the fish sit on a point, and whether the brush you marked last month is at eight feet or eighteen, both depend on where the pool is today. The reading below is live, and it is worth a look before you hitch the trailer.
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Pool right now
910.66ft NGVD29
- 24 hours-0.04 ft → steady
- Storage2,520,060 acre-ft
- Water temperature57 F
- For the dateA little below normal for the date
Reading taken 2h ago at the US Army Corps of Engineers gauge at Table Rock Dam (SWL). Elevation is the surface of the lake above the survey datum, not depth. Source.
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Access
Corps campgrounds and ramps ring the lake at Aunts Creek, Baxter, Big M, Campbell Point, Cape Fair, Cricket Creek, Eagle Rock, Indian Point, Mill Point, Old Highway 86 and Viola; all are booked through Recreation.gov.
Table Rock State Park sits on the eastern shore below Branson and has a marina, ramps and camping under Missouri State Parks rather than the Corps.
Moonshine Beach and the Dewey Short Visitor Center at the dam are the main day-use stops on the Branson end.
Branson is the service town for the lower lake; Shell Knob, Cape Fair and Kimberling City serve the middle and upper arms.
The James River and Kings River arms have their own ramps and are worth treating as separate fisheries from the main lake.
Lake Taneycomo, the cold tailwater below the dam, is a trout fishery and is managed under different rules.
Ramp conditions change with the pool; check the current level before committing to a shallow upper-arm ramp.
Seasons
Spring: bass move up on chunk rock and pea gravel through March and April, and white bass run the James and Kings River arms.
Summer: spotted and smallmouth bass hold deep on main-lake points and bluff ends; night fishing is a Table Rock tradition for good reason.
Autumn: shad pull into the creeks and both black bass and white bass follow, giving the year's best surface fishing.
Winter: the lake clears and the deep-water bite for spots and smallmouth stays reliable for anglers willing to fish slowly.
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Questions
What species can you catch on the Table Rock Lake?
Anglers target Black Crappie, Bluegill, Channel Catfish, Flathead Catfish, Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Spotted Bass, Walleye, White Bass, White Crappie on the Table Rock Lake in Missouri.
Are there fishing guides on the Table Rock Lake?
GuidedFloats lists 1 guide and outfitters on the Table Rock Lake. Claimed profiles accept booking requests; unclaimed profiles are built from public records and link to the business.
Where can you access the Table Rock Lake?
Corps campgrounds and ramps ring the lake at Aunts Creek, Baxter, Big M, Campbell Point, Cape Fair, Cricket Creek, Eagle Rock, Indian Point, Mill Point, Old Highway 86 and Viola; all are booked through Recreation.gov. Table Rock State Park sits on the eastern shore below Branson and has a marina, ramps and camping under Missouri State Parks rather than the Corps. Moonshine Beach and the Dewey Short Visitor Center at the dam are the main day-use stops on the Branson end. Branson is the service town for the lower lake; Shell Knob, Cape Fair and Kimberling City serve the middle and upper arms. Th...
When is the best time to fish the Table Rock Lake?
Spring: bass move up on chunk rock and pea gravel through March and April, and white bass run the James and Kings River arms. Summer: spotted and smallmouth bass hold deep on main-lake points and bluff ends; night fishing is a Table Rock tradition for good reason. Autumn: shad pull into the creeks and both black bass and white bass follow, giving the year's best surface fishing. Winter: the lake clears and the deep-water bite for spots and smallmouth stays reliable for anglers willing to fish slowly.
Where are the fishing regulations for the Table Rock Lake?
Regulations change by season and section. Read the current rules on the Missouri agency site: https://mdc.mo.gov/fishing/regulations