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Hunting buffalo in the Louisiana bayou. (freshwater fishing; buffalo fish)

National Fisherman | January 1, 1992 | Copyright

In the early 1970s, fisherman Harry Brown, of Cameron, La., participated in a fish removal program in Sam Rayburn Lake in eastern Texas. His mission was to help reduce the population of a fish that was suspected of crowding out more desirable freshwater gamefish. The culprit? The carp-like buffalo fish.

"I just went to Texas for a little while, to check it out," says Brown, "but I ended up staying in a motel for three months." According to Brown, fishermen pulled out 2 million lbs. of buffalo every year from this reservoir. "If you didn't get your 700 lbs. or 800 lbs.,…

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