Bull Shoals Tailwater
(excerpted from Ozark Trout Tales, by Steve Wright)
| Location | On river mile 418.6 of the White River, Bull Shoals Dam is about 12 miles west of Mountain Home, Arkansas, on Highway 178. Click here for a map of the Bull Shoals Tailwater. |
| Description | Because Bull Shoals Dam has eight hydroelectric power generators and because the Bull Shoals Tailwater receives another charge of cold water from Norfork Dam 44 miles downstream, the trout habitat extends approximately to Lock & Dam # 3 below Guion, Arkansas, a distance of 101 river miles. Historical Note: The exact origin of the name "Bull Shoals" is unclear, but the shoals where the dam now sits had that name when Henry Rowe Schoolcraft visited in 1819. He wrote: "Here the river has a fall of 15 or 20 feet in the distance of half-a-mile and stands full of rugged calcareous rocks, among which the water forms and rushes with astonishing velocity and incessant noise." |
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