Whats the deal with this lake? I know its closed because of the navy base Anyone have more detail or if there is any hope of it opening.

My understanding is that you can not keep fish from it, there is still a boat ramp that you can use so can you fish it at all?

I heard of people fishing it before. I remember someone telling me that a long time ago a jet crashed in it and jet fuel got in the lake. I may be wrong but this is what I have heard. I bet the fish in there are HUGE because not that many people fish it.

Hope this helps.

thanks, I think that there may be some good fishing there for that very reason

My dad watched that plane crash-that was in the early 70's. I don't think it actually went into the lake.

I've fished it before from the bank around the hot water discharge area and we caught a lot of sandbass. Knew of others who caught many crappie in the spring out there too but I never kept any of the fish. Went to school at DBU and there is a boat ramp there but I have heard that your vehicle is very succeptible to being broken into there as well. Some not so good people hanging around the ramp area the few times I drove by it.

there is a consumption ban on MC. The ramp is still open but kinda shallow. Most of the fishable structure is on the north end of the lake near the runway and there are some biggies in there.

Wasn't sure if the plane crashed in the lake or around it but, I knew it had something to do with the consumption ban.

kd,it's not closed!It is very shallow,the ramps are not maintained and there is a consumption ban but the areas by the landing strip and dam are at reasonably deep!Which is all realitive these fish are acustom to shallow water and there are some big bass,crappie,sand bass,drum,carp,gar in there.It's also a powerplant lake so it's heated in the winter when they are generating electricity.I've attached a few pics from last summer we were on the Grand Prarie side close to LTV we launched at the ramp close to DBC







pics are of my brother David,I'm family photographer

There is still an airplane in the south end. When it went down (I have no clue when it was) the south end of the lake was still covered with reeds and I guess they just left it there.

I've caught crappie from around the tail poking out of the water when I was a kid.

It is sitting in water 2 feet deep and in mud about 6 feet deep.

where is dbc?

Assuming your talking about Dallas Baptist College. It's on the east side of the lake at Kiest Blvd.

fwbret/txfishes--was that the Navy training jet that you're talking about? I was told it didn't go in the lake, but I was just a kid then, so I didn't pay much attention to the news.

I lived close by, but never fished there because was told even then there was a ban.

From the looks of it it is was not a jet. The tail (all I could see) was white and rounded-ish (I was a kid too, so memory may not be that great).


I remember an F-4 (I think, it was NAS Dallas at the time, and it was too long ago to be an F-14, it could have been one of the T-38's they flew out there I guess too) going down in a field somewhere out in GP after clipping one of the radio towers out in Cedar Hill. Also don't seem to recall many details about that one.


This may have been what I saw out there:

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19750304-0

although the plane was sitting well south of the runway and not consistent (to my knowledge) with "overran the wet runway into Mountain Creek Lake".

Oh well, I know there were some decent fish out there, gobs of largemouth, crappie, white bass, and freshwater drum. I recall a nice channel catfish population too.

I think TPWD stocked Reds out there in the 70's too. I never saw one or saw one caught though.

oh my nice fish!!

Its a shame the state has not gone in there and cleaned up the lake!!!!