Bob
10-11-2006, 13:40
My View of Bowfishing
MadAdam Sep 14, 2006
As a serious archery hunter you might laugh at the idea of releasing yourarrow at a Fish. That's right I said a Fish. I love the outdoors and if Icould I'd take off of work the entire hunting season to pursue whatever game I'mafter, be it Whitetails or Green-heads. But what do you do in the summer whenyour season is over. I live in Pennsylvania where most of my hunting and fishing is done. I amlucky enough to have a brother in the state of Illinois which expands my rangeeven more. When I visit in the summer and we aren't hunting we're fishing. When he told me we could hunt for fish I was all for it. We took the boat into some backwater sloughs and crept along slowly withour trolling motor looking for Carp and Gar. When I shot my first fish it was areal rush. Never before had I experienced anything like this. When you releasean arrow at a Whitetail the rush comes before the shot. When you shoot a fish,it's after. If you make a good shot you can be in for a real treat, with thefish pulling line in a whole new direction. Recently on a visit we tried something new. Instead of creeping up on thefish we enticed them with our outboard motor. Those of you with a boat inIllinois where Asian Carp reside know what I mean. Asian's are notorious forjumping clear out of the water behind, in front and along side of you're boatsometimes reaching heights of six to eight feet above the surface. We would speed down the river while I stood at the stern bow ready to take theshot. When a fish would jump I'd take the shot which is very challenging forany archer. The action is fast and furious so you have to be ready withsometimes two or three fish at a time jumping. One of the carp I shot we nevergot to see after I shot it out of midair because it took our arrow and most ofour line. I'd say it ranged between Twenty and Thirty pounds. That was FUN. We use our dad's old fifty pound recurve bow oufitted with a Cajun reel(hand powered) and about fifty yards of two-hundred pound test line backed withanother fifty yards of braided line. A fiberglass fish arrow with a good tip isalso required. You might also want to use a leather finger guard and arm guardas sometimes forty or fifty shots in a day can take their toll on you. So if you'd like to try something different than fishing in the summer tryhunting for fish instead. I guarantee you'll have a great time and maybe you'llget to land that big one that got away from me.
MadAdam Sep 14, 2006
As a serious archery hunter you might laugh at the idea of releasing yourarrow at a Fish. That's right I said a Fish. I love the outdoors and if Icould I'd take off of work the entire hunting season to pursue whatever game I'mafter, be it Whitetails or Green-heads. But what do you do in the summer whenyour season is over. I live in Pennsylvania where most of my hunting and fishing is done. I amlucky enough to have a brother in the state of Illinois which expands my rangeeven more. When I visit in the summer and we aren't hunting we're fishing. When he told me we could hunt for fish I was all for it. We took the boat into some backwater sloughs and crept along slowly withour trolling motor looking for Carp and Gar. When I shot my first fish it was areal rush. Never before had I experienced anything like this. When you releasean arrow at a Whitetail the rush comes before the shot. When you shoot a fish,it's after. If you make a good shot you can be in for a real treat, with thefish pulling line in a whole new direction. Recently on a visit we tried something new. Instead of creeping up on thefish we enticed them with our outboard motor. Those of you with a boat inIllinois where Asian Carp reside know what I mean. Asian's are notorious forjumping clear out of the water behind, in front and along side of you're boatsometimes reaching heights of six to eight feet above the surface. We would speed down the river while I stood at the stern bow ready to take theshot. When a fish would jump I'd take the shot which is very challenging forany archer. The action is fast and furious so you have to be ready withsometimes two or three fish at a time jumping. One of the carp I shot we nevergot to see after I shot it out of midair because it took our arrow and most ofour line. I'd say it ranged between Twenty and Thirty pounds. That was FUN. We use our dad's old fifty pound recurve bow oufitted with a Cajun reel(hand powered) and about fifty yards of two-hundred pound test line backed withanother fifty yards of braided line. A fiberglass fish arrow with a good tip isalso required. You might also want to use a leather finger guard and arm guardas sometimes forty or fifty shots in a day can take their toll on you. So if you'd like to try something different than fishing in the summer tryhunting for fish instead. I guarantee you'll have a great time and maybe you'llget to land that big one that got away from me.