South Buffalo gills

[aquafang]

Anyone know anything about the bluegill fishing on S. Buffalo? Want to try it but would like some tips on where to start. there's a west landing and an east access. Just wondered if anyone every fished it and where they fished.

Thanks.

[PERCHJR]

Hey Fang, My cousins and I are heading up that way this weekend, maybe we will run in to yah? We plan on fishing Buffalo and I think it is called Drywood Lake!! If anyone has some info it would be greatly appreciated!!!

GOOD LUCK AND GOOD FISHING!!!

[Duck-o-holic]

Perch,

I'm heading out in that direction this weekend. Shoot me an email!

Duck-o-holic

[aquafang]

Funny, A buddy and myself are thinking about heading to Drywood after we hit Pickeral in the morning. then if that don't pan out, South buffalo is our next thought.I drive a green and gold '94 sub and my buddy has a charcoal '00 chevy ext. cab. We both have one man fish traps and two man shacks. Not sure which one I am bringing.

[PERCHJR]

Fang, we are planning on being at one of them bright and early on Saturday, I will look for yah!!

[aquafang]

As of now, we are planning on leaving Pickeral by no later than 10:00. And going to Drywood. Haven't fished it before so I will look for you if you are there to see how your luck is. What will you be driving?/ shack

[PERCHJR]

Hey Fang, sounds good to me. We will be in my White Dodge Quad Cab, and the other truck will be a Dark Blue Ford, we have 2 Fish traps and a Otter, I am not sure what lake we will be at right away in the morning, either Buffalo or Drywood. My cell # is 605-380-9415, if you want to give me a call. I will be looking for you also, so maybe catch yah Saturday!!!

GOOD LUCK AND GOOD FISHING!!!

[PERCHJR]

Hey aqua and Duck, we never did fish Buffalo or Drywood, we ended up fishing Enemy on saturday morning and we caught 1 perch and 1 gill and that was it. We fished Waubay, up by Grenville, saturday afternoon and caught about 20 perch but nothing great. On sunday we fished Waubay again in the morning, and caught about 10 perch, in the afternoon we headed to Pickerel for some crappies and eyes and ended up catching at least 50 perch, which really surprised us, I have no clue where we really fished, only way to find it will be with the GPS all I can say is it was in 32' of water up on the northern end!!!

GOOD LUCK AND GOOD FISHING!!!

[Muskeez]

Are the perch on Pickerel decent sized? Did you get any Crappies? Thanks for any reports.

[iceguy70]

I did the exact same thing as you did last year. I had just got done catching a limit of perch on waubay and sat down in the same hole as you were on up on the north side. If you look on the lake map you can see where the hole is. I caught a bunch of perch just like you did and only caught one crappie that was about ten inches.

[Dingo]

I have fished that area on Pickeral also, where you got the perch but the size was towards the bottom size of keepable. How was the size of the ones you got?

[PERCHJR]

Hey Musk, the perch are ok in size average from 8" to 11" nothing to great, a guy had to sort through alot to get your limit!!! We never caught any crappies, we went there for them but when the perch started to bite we completely forgot about the crappies!!!

GOOD LUCK AND GOOD FISHING!!!

[aquafang]

Perchjr.--

We didn't either. We went to Drywood and talked to a kid who lives right there by where everyone accesses the lake. He said no one was catching anything this year. Plus, it was foggy and didn't want to drive on a lake that we'd never been on before. We were out from grenville sat afternoon also. Had to leave at 4:00 so I missed the bite. only ended up with 3 perch. Went back for the afternoon bite on sunday and hammered them.

[PERCHJR]

Hey Fang, we also talked to a local farmer that was fishing Drywood on saturday and he said the same thing they have caught pretty much nothing there all year. He thinks that the GF&P netted the perch out this summer, he told us that they did see GF&P boats on there this summer so maybe the lake is empty!!!

GOOD LUCK AND GOOD FISHING!!!

[iceguy70]

Went to South Buffalo yesterday and did not have any luck. I mostly fished around the island strait out from boat ramp and did not see one bluegill on the camera. I also fished all around the submerged island off the bigger point, still did not mark a fish. At 1:00, I left for Waubay and got skunked there too. Worst day I have ever had on waubay in three years.