Back in the days of “catch and keep”, here is a picture from one of several trips my grandfather made to the Buffalo River in the late 1920s, 1930s and early 1940s. This one is of him with a smallmouth bass, marked Buffalo River; Carver 1929; 5 pounds 4 oz.; 21 inches. A pretty good smallmouth at any time:
Life and Wildlife along the Little Buffalo River 