Eleven Point River Fishing Spot
- Elevation: 1371'
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Fish in the Eleven Point River are caught with a wide variety of tackle and with various baits. Worms, salmon eggs, cheese, canned corn, plugs, soft plastic lures, hard lures, grasshoppers, and artificial flies have all been used for fishing. Other types of live bait may be used for fishing. When taking live bait, special rules, limits, and capturemethods also apply. Game fish or their parts may not be used as bait. In the Blue Ribbon Trout Area only flies and artificial lures may be used. Natural bait, scented bait, and soft plastic lures cannot be used in this area. Wade fishing on the Eleven Point is possible; however, the deep pools can make it difficult getting from shoal to shoal. A leisurely float in a canoe or jon boat will help make fishing on this scenic river more enjoyable. The Eleven Point River is always floatable downstream from Greer Spring and most of the time downstream of Thomasville.
Eleven Point River Description
Fishing the Eleven Point National Scenic Riveris a very popular recreation activity on the Mark Twain National Forest. The river sees a variety of users and is shared by canoes and boats, swimmers, trappers, and people fishing. Please use caution and courtesy when encountering another user. Be aware that 25 horsepower is the maximumboat motor size allowed on the Eleven Point River from Thomasville to "the Narrows" at Missouri State Highway 142. Several sections of the river are surrounded by private land. Before walking on the bank, ask the landowners for permission. Many anglers today enjoy the sport of the catch and fight, but release the fish un-harmed. Others enjoy the taste of freshly caught fish. Whatever your age, skill level or desire, you should be aware of fishing rules and gulations, and a little natural history of your game. The Eleven Point River, because of its variety of water sources, offers fishing for both cold and warm-water fish. Those fishing the waters of the Eleven Point tend to divide the river into three distinctive areas. Different fish live in different parts of the river depending upon the water temperature and available habitat. The upper river, from Thomasville to the Greer Spring Branch, is good for smallmouth bass, longear sunfish, bluegill, goggle-eye (rock bass), suckers, and a few largemouth bass. This area of the river is warmer and its flow decreases during the summer. The river and fish communities change where Greer Spring Branch enters the river. The spring more than doubles thevolume of the river, adding millions of gallons of clear, cold spring water each day. This cold water makes it possible for Rainbow Trout to do well in this part of the river. Five and one-half (5-1/2) miles of river between the Greer Spring Branch and Turner Mill is a Blue Ribbon Trout Area. From Turner Mill to Riverton the water stays cold. 10-12" trout are stocked in this section by the Missouri Department of Conservation from March to October. From Greer to Riverton you will also find smallmouth bass, goggle-eye, longear sunfish, and an occasional walleye and chain pickerel (pike). Below Riverton, the river widens and the water is warmer. In this section, you find sunfish, goggle-eye, largemouth and smallmouth bass, walleye, suckers, chain pickerel (pike), and an occasional freshwater drum.
The Eleven Point River is in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas, United States. It originates near Willow Springs, Missouri. It more than doubles in flow when Greer Spring Branch runs into it, adding over 200 million gallons of water per day to the river. The name derives from the Mississippi Valley French word pointe, which is a wooded point of land marking a river bend. Voyageurs marked distance by counting these points of land or river bends.[1] The river flows into the Black River near Pocahontas.