New Guy From the States

[racewire20]

Hello everyone, just referred to your site.

plan on looking around and making new friends. I'm from Waxhaw, NC, just south of Charlotte NC.

I fish the Outer Banks of NC and the SC beaches.

[Newt]

Hi and welcome.

 

You gotta be careful though. I wandered in here in 2000 and haven't left.

 

Ever do any buffalo fishing on Lake Wylie? I haven't been since a few months before the water got so low they closed some launch ramps.

[medwaygreen]

After you stated planning on making new friends i did not understand one thing .

 

Welcome and enjoy a remarkable angling cyber club.

[Arf]

Hi and welcome.

 

You gotta be careful though. I wandered in here in 2000 and haven't left.

 

Ever do any buffalo fishing on Lake Wylie? I haven't been since a few months before the water got so low they closed some launch ramps.

 

A buffalo is a bovine, not a fish, silly.... Imagine catching one of them on a hook and line

 

 

Welcome racewire, I've just arrived too. Well actually I think I was here about 6 years ago, but my memory is only 3 months long I can't be sure....

[racewire20]

Hi and welcome.

 

You gotta be careful though. I wandered in here in 2000 and haven't left.

 

Ever do any buffalo fishing on Lake Wylie? I haven't been since a few months before the water got so low they closed some launch ramps.

 

Hi Newt, Norrie on WSF asked if I knew you. Don't hardly do any fresh water fishing except on occasion In a small farm pond, But may get more in,........ in the future.

I'm suffering severe cabin fever, can't wait till next month to get back to the coast.

 

By the way, what the heck is "buffalo fishing"?

[Newt]

"By the way, what the heck is "buffalo fishing"? "

 

Buffalo fishing is ... fishing for buffalo.

 

Buff look a lot like carp but without barbels and they get larger. Harder to catch too. Smallmouth buffalo are merely difficult. Largemouth buffalo are nearly impossible since they are mid-water filter feeders.

 

Lake Wylie holds the largest ones I know of with the lake record & State record at 88 lbs. Look toward the bottom of this list.

 

http://www.ncwildlife.org/pg03_fishing/pg3c2.htm

 

And a great photo with a smallmouth buff & a carp together so you can get an idea of the difference.

 

http://blog.texasbuffaloadventures.com/200...april-2008.aspx

[racewire20]

"By the way, what the heck is "buffalo fishing"? "

 

Buffalo fishing is ... fishing for buffalo.

 

Buff look a lot like carp but without barbels and they get larger. Harder to catch too. Smallmouth buffalo are merely difficult. Largemouth buffalo are nearly impossible since they are mid-water filter feeders.

 

Lake Wylie holds the largest ones I know of with the lake record & State record at 88 lbs. Look toward the bottom of this list.

 

http://www.ncwildlife.org/pg03_fishing/pg3c2.htm

 

And a great photo with a smallmouth buff & a carp together so you can get an idea of the difference.

 

http://blog.texasbuffaloadventures.com/200...april-2008.aspx

 

Did not realize those were in Lake Wylie. Looks like a pig of a Japanese Gold Fish (carp).