Arkansas Blog

I usually float by Whitewater on the Rim Shoals to Buffalo City float. Good fishing just past where Crooked Creek empties into the White on this float.

Amazed that Mt. View was only mentioned at the end of the article. But, overall, it's hard to buy coverage that good. Just ask John Wilson who I met when he was living in a travel trailer on a hillside at McClellans Trout dock.

I wonder how the folks in Cotter feel about having the landing there described as near Flippin?

lest we forget about justice. Click on Cato

Right here in Buffalo City, at White Buffalo Resort to be specific, is the famous/infamous John Ramsey. Not sure who he is with, though.

Not to be confused with my old pal John Ramsey who owns the Hallmark Crown Shops in Little Rock, since he's neither famous nor infamous.

Jon Benet's father??

Cammack...Where exactly is Buffalo City??

Yes. Jon Benet's father. He lives in Little Rock now.

Buffalo City is kind of between Mountain Home and Gassville. It is where the Buffalo River meets with the White River, thus the name of the White Buffalo Resort. I think it is one of those "hidden" jewels of a resort, and in my opinion, is much better than Gaston's.

Sorta too bad there wasn't a bunch of them "Look forward not back" folks in DC back when this Whitewater silliness popped up. Just think of the millions in taxpayer money that was thrown away trying to nail the Clintons. Now murderers not only go free but wind up making big bucks on the lecture trail. My how times have changed.

Since I'm bad to tie to tobacco... the Clinton administration was the first to really challenge the tobacco industry. Reagan did ads for Chestefield and ignored the hell out of C. Everett Koop. Nixon fired his Surgeon general for suggestion secondhand smoke was dangerous.

Recall the Congressional testimony of the CEOs of the largest tobacco companies saying they didn't "believe" nicotine was addictive. (They actually had hard evidence since 1973) Counsel behind Brown and Williamson was Kenneth Star.
Was chasing a minor real estate deal that ended up with a stained dress due dilligence, or somebody with a real axe to grind?

the puppy's chasing the rooster, gotta go.

Nanc,
Click on my name (google maps) then type in Buffalo City, AR

The Buffalo River will be the one at the bottom R of your screen.

Try the terrain and satellite view. You can scale back the image to get
a better idea of where it's located.

It's usually mediocre fishing. However in the early summer as downstream waters warm
I enjoyed floating from Buffalo City to confluence of White and Norfork. There used
to be a humongous hatch of large mayflies in the stretch between Buffalo City and
Shipps Ferry. If you were lucky enough to hit it at the right time fly fishing was endless fun. It was nothing unusual to catch/release 35-40 rainbows in one afternoon. Occasionally
large, like really big, rainbows would happen along and always snap my leader.
29 years ago I did manage to hang on to a 9.5 lb rainbow. It was released. Still have
a pic somewhere.

As waters warm larger fish move upstream to be closer to damns and cold
water releases. Trout cannot survive in waters above 70 deg F.

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Elwood:

Scroll through and check out the fish caught here. Not sure I would call this mediocre fishing.

Cammack I did not say it was mediocre fishing all the time.

If you want to see trophies go
way upstream to those resorts around the White Hole. Walls lined with 18-29 lb trout. Many years ago our club explained as courteously as possible to the resort owners & guides that those lunkers were worth more in the water than up on their walls. We encouraged each of them to keep a good camera around because a picture can tell a thousand words.

You and I both know that when the Buffalo River watershed has a good rain the water from Buffalo City on down is not very good fishing except for some bait fishermen.

Since I'm a local around these parts, remember the feeding network frenzy well, was in a local resturant in yellville when some Assies came in questioning the location of whitewater. I turned to one of the local lawyers who was at the checkout counter(He was the only one who knew what they were talking about) gave them directions. I asked what the hell's going on he replied you'll find out soon enough. We had a big laugh then.
Anyway the real Buffalo City is on up stream on Buffalo River, and if you want to have a real float go from Rush Creek to White River and prepare for some fantastic smallmouth fishing. And in the Springtime like now, there is also some trout trying to swim upstream there. I have caught rainbow in crooked creek as far up as 14 hiway bridge at yellville in the earlymarch.

Elwoodl:

I usually fish the Rim Shoals to Buffalo City section. Mainly, I kayak that section and throw a line out every now and then. I don't fly fish, though. The flood last year has certainly changed the way the river fishes since the bottom has been scoured out.

I was told by some locals that the real Buffalo City was upstream and on the opposite side of the White-- closer to Buffalo shoals. The town moved when the railroad came through, and there is still a railroad building here, and what used to be an old grocery store. Will the real Buffalo City please stand up? :)