Annual Early May Trip

[budman]

We plan of doing our annual Buffalo Trip the week of May 9-13. WE are staying at Buffalo Point and plan on floating and fishing from Spring Creek to Buffalo Point one day and the next down to Rush Landing. Can anyone tell me what to expect about the river there, we have never floated this section. We have camped there but fished CC each day last year. Since it is well down stream from where we have fished before I am expecting more wide open slow water. I know we don't want to miss rush because the next take-out is on the white I understand. WE are mostly camping and enjoying the days away from work but we will be fishing each day, any information on a certain area to not miss whould help a lot.

[Al Agnew]

That part of the Buffalo is fairly slow, with some long pools. In May, however, there should be enough water to keep current moving through the pools. No real rapids to speak of, lots of "interesting" but not too difficult riffles, if I remember rightly. Scenery is pretty spectacular, like all the Buffalo, but different from middle and upper sections. Lots of stairstep bluffs with bands of sheer rock layered with bands of steep wooded slope, many of them very high...below Buffalo Point one or two of those bluffs are over 500 feet high.

[24KGold]

I've fished that stretch numerous times. Great fishing but the best is past Buffalo Point. Fish the pools just below the riffles. Toss into the riffles and let your bait drop off into the pools. Also, you won't miss Rush landing. There is a big sign on the left side close to the water. You'll see Rush creek running into the river and you'll notice the big gravel bar with dirt roads leading from it.

Terry

[gotmuddy]

The float from Buffalo Point to rush is extremely easy. No difficult stretches. You should not have any trouble with passing rush because just passed rush is clabber shoals.

[budman]

We are still going next week. It looks like the water is going down and the forecast is mostly sunny and dry. Does anyone have an idea what the fishing might be like after all the high water. I think the river, gravel bars, and amount of trees in the river will be different. Will the high water have pushed out alot of the food the smallmouth eat making them hunt for food more. Can anyone give me any ideas?

[bobber]

you need to call and check about the roads in. they were all closed due to the flooding most of them have big washouts and the road grader just did steel creek today, and was working down stream. i know rush is closed and maumee north.

[budman]

had a really good trip, the weather was a little warm and the rain held off until Thursday. We caught some really nice fish, lots of 12-14 inch fish, every one caught at least one 16 inch fish and we had two make 18 inches. Our best lure was a small green pumpkin seed on a black jighead, fished really slow on the bottom. The bite was soft, with most fish just picking it up and moving away slowly. All of the big fish we caught was in slack water or backwaters. We floated from North Maumee to Buffalo Point and fished any hole that had slow water. We also wade fished on Crooked Creek around Harmon, one low water crossing to another. We found a few fish making beds and they would not bite a thing, not sure if this is the first spawn or what with the high water. Can't show you any pictures because no one brought a camera and since our phones did not work no one carried that either. The heavy rain Thursday night brought the river up 6 feet over night, and lots of mud. This was our 7 annual trip and our best fishing year to date.