Lots To Learn About River Fishing

[darbwa]

Thanks to everyone for all the tips. My friend came all the way in from San Francisco to do some Ozark fishing and the Buffalo did not disappoint. We used Silver Hill Floats because they gave us some good info on the phone and gave recommendations on where to float if fishing was our main concern. We floated started at Margaret White on Thursday late morning. We floated slow and fished a lot and caught several small smallies (14 total between us - none over 14") before we stopped to set up camp. I got up just after sun up and started catching fish on every other cast. The fishing slowed a bit in the mid morning but when we saw holes that looked promising we would fish them and usually come away with something. On one hole we caught at least a dozen smallies in about 45 minutes.

The Buffalo was a beautiful River and we were fortunate to have it (what seemed like) to ourselves. We didn't see another human until a mile or so before Tyler Bend on day 2. Our trip ended just downstream from Hwy 65 and we had caught 46 bass in total for the trip (probably near 100 total fish).

We are already planning a 3-day trip for next year. Thanks again for all the suggestions and btw, we caught the greatest number of fish on a soft plastic craw papi followed by a craw crank bait and the largest fish were caught on a top water.

[ozark trout fisher]

Thanks to everyone for all the tips. My friend came all the way in from San Francisco to do some Ozark fishing and the Buffalo did not disappoint. We used Silver Hill Floats because they gave us some good info on the phone and gave recommendations on where to float if fishing was our main concern. We floated started at Margaret White on Thursday late morning. We floated slow and fished a lot and caught several small smallies (14 total between us - none over 14") before we stopped to set up camp. I got up just after sun up and started catching fish on every other cast. The fishing slowed a bit in the mid morning but when we saw holes that looked promising we would fish them and usually come away with something. On one hole we caught at least a dozen smallies in about 45 minutes.

The Buffalo was a beautiful River and we were fortunate to have it (what seemed like) to ourselves. We didn't see another human until a mile or so before Tyler Bend on day 2. Our trip ended just downstream from Hwy 65 and we had caught 46 bass in total for the trip (probably near 100 total fish).

We are already planning a 3-day trip for next year. Thanks again for all the suggestions and btw, we caught the greatest number of fish on a soft plastic craw papi followed by a craw crank bait and the largest fish were caught on a top water.

Sounds like an awesome trip... I've been meaning to get on the Buffalo, but its so far away.