Capps Creek

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Capps Creek is located in Newton County, Missouri and is best known for Jolly Mill Park located at the old township site of Jollification. The other thing Capps Creek is known for is trout fishing, as it is a White Ribbon Trout Area managed by the Missouri Department of Conservation.

White Ribbon Trout Areas are stocked periodically with rainbow and occasionally brown trout, and the fishing regulations are generally relaxed, allowing anglers to fish with any bait and keep up to 4 trout per day. However, a good number visiting fishermen venture away from Jolly Mill into the Capps Creek Conservation Area to try their hand at catching the wilder resident trout, most commonly caught on a fly rod. These resident trout are known to grow to respectable sizes, with 20+ inch fish being caught throughout the year.

Jolly Mill and Jollification have quite a history reaching back into the mid 1800s. The Mill was the anchor of the town, and the town survived on its success as a grist mill and whisky distillery. The town was destroyed during the civil war and rebuilt, but it ultimately died when the railroad bypassed the town. Jolly Mill is now managed by The Friends of Jolly Mill and The Ozark Highlanders as a public family-friendly park, and it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.