[6][7] The lake offers year-round fishing for yellow perch, crappie, rainbow trout, and walleye.

[4] The Stratford Wildlife Recreation Area borders Billy Clapp Lake on its eastern shore and hosts migrating waterfowl.

Pinto Dam and Billy Clapp Lake are part of the Main Canal (1951) of the Columbia Basin project.

An uncontrolled open-channel emergency spillway is provided around the left abutment of the dam in a channel excavated in rock.

Billy Clapp Headworks has radial gates to regulate the flow of water into the lower reach of the Main Canal.