Boat Docks & Piers
Fixed docks, walkways and covered fishing piers set to a pool that moves only a foot or two a year — steady water rewards building tight to the line.
Lakes We Serve · TX
Docks, boathouses and bulkheads on Lake Striker.
A water district owns this lake, the bottom and the lot under your cabin — and nearly every shoreline property here is leased year to year. Knowing that before you design is worth more than any brochure.
Who Clears the Work
The Reklaw lake office, not a river authority.
Angelina and Nacogdoches Counties Water Control and Improvement District No. 1 owns Lake Striker and its shoreline.
The district is run by a five-member elected board, with its business office in Lufkin (P.O. Box 151441, 936-632-2075) and its lake office at 18950 CR 4256 South in Reklaw (903-854-4559). There is no river authority in the picture and no Corps district. Because the district owns the lot as well as the lake bottom, bank work and over-water structures are cleared through that Reklaw office.
The district also prepares every lease itself, so a lot transfer runs through the same office — a $100 transfer fee plus county recording. If you are buying into this lake, the office is the first call, not the last.
One honest caveat: we could not find published dock, boathouse or bulkhead construction rules for Lake Striker. The lot lease appears to be the governing document. So rather than guess at setbacks and height limits, we start a project here by getting the district's requirements in writing for your specific lot.
What We Build Here
Full-scope waterfront work on Lake Striker.
Boat docks are common enough on this lake that Texas Parks and Wildlife lists them as a habitat feature, and there is a full-service marina with a lighted covered fishing pier on the east shore at Lake Striker Resort.
Boathouses & Covered Slips
Covered slips, lifts and storage sized to the lot and to whatever the district's lease allows — confirmed in writing before design, not after.
Bulkheads, Seawalls & Retaining Walls
Bank protection in galvanized steel, vinyl, FRP composite or heavy timber, matched to piney-woods soils and a shoreline of standing timber and lily pads.
Precision Dredging
Slip and access dredging on a lake that has been quietly filling since 1957 — spoil pumped for backfill reuse rather than trucked off through the subdivision.
The Lease Changes the Math
Year to year, not ninety-nine.
Waterfront lots in the Lake Striker Shoreline Subdivision run $200 a year and off-water lots $100, on year-to-year leases that renew when the fee is paid. These are not 99-year leases, and that matters to anyone about to put serious money on the bank.
It is not a reason to build badly — a cheap dock on a leased lot is still a cheap dock, and it fails on the same schedule as anywhere else. It is a reason to be deliberate. Build the structure to last, keep the footprint inside what the district has approved, and know before you start whether the improvement stays with the lot.
Practically, it also favours work that keeps its value on a modest annual footing: a properly engineered retaining wall that stops the bank walking away, a dock rebuilt on sound piling instead of patched for a fourth time, and dredging that restores usable depth rather than an expansion that has to be re-approved.
Know the Water
Piney woods water, and quietly getting shallower.
Striker Creek in the Neches basin, about 18 miles southwest of Henderson and 20 miles east of Jacksonville, across Cherokee and Rusk counties.
The district and local sources put Lake Striker at 2,400 acres. The Texas Water Development Board's 2021 volumetric survey measured 1,954 surface acres and 21,799 acre-feet at the 293-foot conservation pool — down from the 26,700 acre-feet credited when the lake filled in 1957. However you count the surface, the storage number tells the real story: this lake has lost a meaningful share of its volume to sediment over roughly seven decades, and on a shoreline lot that shows up as a slip you can no longer use.
Normal pool is 293 feet above mean sea level, tracked on a USGS gauge the district links from its own site, and TPWD rates the annual swing at only 1 to 2 feet — one of the steadier lakes in East Texas. The water is moderately turbid and about 35 feet at its deepest, with standing timber, lily pads and boat docks providing the cover. On-lake addresses fall in the Lake Striker Shoreline Subdivision, with Reklaw, New Summerfield, Henderson and Jacksonville as the surrounding towns.
Questions We Hear
Lake Striker FAQ.
Who approves a dock or bulkhead on Lake Striker?
Angelina and Nacogdoches Counties WCID No. 1, through its lake office in Reklaw (903-854-4559). The district owns the lake bottom and the lot, so it is both landlord and approver — and we could not find any published construction rulebook, which makes getting its requirements in writing step one.
I am buying a lot here. What should I check?
That the lease is in order and transfers cleanly — the district prepares every lease itself, and a transfer carries a $100 fee plus county recording. Also check what is already on the bank: an inherited dock or wall that was never approved becomes your problem the day you sign.
Does a year-to-year lease mean I should build cheap?
No — it means build to the right scope. A structure that fails in five years costs more than one built properly. What the lease should change is how much you extend, not how well you build.
The water in front of my dock is getting shallow. Can that be fixed?
Usually. Lake Striker has been accumulating sediment since 1957, and slip or access dredging restores working depth without touching the structure. Our rigs pump the material for reuse instead of hauling it off by truck. Scope and approval go through the district.
Will Shoretech travel to Lake Striker?
Yes. Dave travels as far as necessary for the right project, and Cherokee and Rusk county water is inside Shoretech's working footprint. Call to talk through the lease, access and scheduling.
Nearby Water
More lakes in this region.
Start With a Conversation
Planning a project on Lake Striker?
Tell Dave what the lease says, what is on the bank now, and how you use the water. We will build the scope around all three.