Buffalo River, Tn

[jdmidwest]

I was wondering if anyone had any experiences with the Buffalo River system between Nashville and Jackson TN. I have a friend that wants to fish it next week. From what I am reading, it looks to be alot like the 11 PT here without the trout. It is a State Scenic Riverway.

[Ham]

I've camped on it twice and fished it a total of 5 days. Water is a little stained compared to most of our creeks, but not dirty.

I fished it just like I do here at home and caught a lot of fish, not as many as I wanted, but a bunch.

If I remember right, I caught all three species of bass. I caught a variety of panfish. I caught a real nice channel cat, a Gar or two, and a handful of gaspergoo that drug the yak around. At some periods of the year, Stripers run up river( from ???) into that area.

I really like that little river. I used buzz baits, soft plastics, pig n jig, top waters, jerk baits, and cranks and daunt fish on them all.

I fished sections just south of the interstate.

It was a good time.

[Al Agnew]

I only fished it once...pretty similar to the Big Piney in size and character, caught some fish, including one 19 inch smallmouth. That was a long time ago, though.

[jdmidwest]

He has been in Jackson for about 10 years and just now found it. He called last week and reported a pretty good trip. Looks like the weather will be good around there next weekend. I hope they did not get any of the flooding from Lee.

Sounds like it should fish the same as around here on most warmwater streams.

Wiki says it got its name from Buffalo fish, looks like it should have been called the Drum river...