Lower Buffalo Wilderness (May19th - 22nd)

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Last week for my birthday, I got to float the Buffalo River from Rush Access to the White River. I went with my Dad, Uncle Dan, my godfather, and Matt Horton. If you have never done this, I highly recommend it. This is truly one of the last untouched areas in Arkansas. I mainly guided Matt because it was his his time in this stretch of the river.

The river was a little high (5.8' at the Highway 14 Bridge) to fish with normal tactics. We still manage to catch around 700 smallmouth in 4 days! We also caught and kept dozens of longear sunfish, green sunfish, four ozark bass (no state records), one catfish, and one bluegill.

Including the lamprey that was attached to the catfish, we caught 7 species of fish!

We also learned that the lower Buffalo River is full of softshell turtles. We caught 10 of them while catfishing!