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Spring campout and tilapia hunt.
huntertrapper:
Very kewl stuff. nice fish and awesome job of stalkin them hogs
chasing crow:
Wow, nice mess of fish. Looks like a really great camping trip. I would like to try fishing like that sometime.
PeteC:
Bryan,you can shoot a fishin' arrow out of any bow with enough umph to get it launched. ;) God Bless
hedgeapple:
Pete, what a great time with the family and dinner to boot. I wish we had tilapia in KY.
I have a question or 6 about setting up a trad bow for bow fishing.
First it looks like in the picture that the plastic fletchings have been removed from the arrow. Is that the case?
Then there's the whole spine issue, how do you handle that with FG arrows?
Are there some woods out there that are heavier than water like maybe dogwood or iron wood, that could be used for fishing arrows?
If I really want/need fletching to compensate for my bad form, is there a way to make feathers water repellant?
Your reels don't look like the typical black plastic models I see in the stores. Did you make these? Also, I'd love a description and pictures on how you attached them to your bows.
Thanks a bunch. Dave
recurve shooter:
hedgeapple, i cant speak for them, but i can tell ya about my rig. ;D
i have mine on my 55# pearson hunter recurve, just because its my most powerfull bow and i have trouble pokeing holes in big gar 20 yards from me lol.
anyway, the arrows that i buy come without the little plastic fletchings, and fly straight. i guess its because they are so heavy, pluss i believe that the drag of the line on the back of the arrow helps to stabalize it. as for the real, you can buy tape on moddles or addapters or whatever, but being a redneck, my version involves a flattened piece of pipe and lotsa electrical tape lol.
the reels are meant to bolt in to the stabalizer hole on a compound, so i think the easyest way to do it is to just lose that long bolt, get a shorter one, bolt the reel to something that you can tape to your riser. mine is just a flattened piece of aluminum pipe with a hole drilled through it, the reel bolted on to that, with about eight enches of pipe sticking up past the top of the reel. then i just tape that to the non-bending part of my bow, so that the top of the pipe is just below my arrow shelf, the reel is just below my bow hand, and i bent the pipe so the reel is pointed straight away from my bow, not at a downward angle. ;D
just my way, im sure someone els has a simpler way to do it. ::)
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