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Anyone bowfishing with primitive gear?
swampshooter:
--- Quote from: Agbowyer on March 29, 2007, 01:00:45 pm ---I do it every year. Just be sure you got a good finish on your bow. If your like I am, its pretty hard on the finish. I use a tape on reel unless I'm looking for aligator gar. Then I use a float. have fun... Chris
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How about arrows and tips, these have been really important to me for successful fishing so far. I have been using commercial Muzzy carp and sting-a-ree tips, but would like to craft a primitive tip for the arrow that is effective. Any ideas on a good bowfinshing arrow design?
Agbowyer:
Dustybaer, You have to have a fishing license here. You can only shoot nongame species + catfish (blue, channel, and flathead). We go anytime. Walk the banks especially during spawn, boat daytime, or boat with lights at night. If I have time and camera, I'll take some picks tonight, but I use fiberglass arrows and Bear tape on reel. For floats I use old ketsup or mustard sqeeze bottles. You run the line through the tip and make a knot that won't pull back through. I like to silicone it shut after that.
Swampshooter, like I said above I use fiberglass arrows. For tips I use muzzy for soft skinned fish, carp, buffalo, and catfish (snakes too)., but if I'm in an area with gator gar I like warheads best. They don't have to penetrate as deep to lock up. If you made your own, I'd make osage arrows or some other very heavy wood, and then make a barbed steel point out of saw blades or something. It sure wouldn't be quick release though.
mullet:
I'll be bowfishing for Gar and Tilapia in the river after all the turkey season's I can hit are over.I use a fibreglass bow,sinew and watwr don't really go together plus that bow takes a beating.Swampshooter,nice drum.Can't say I miss Port Sulfur.I was working there by the big blue water tank from June till the end of Jan.
Justin Snyder:
How deep does an arrow go when you miss? Just wondering if I could practice in the cement pond in the back yard. ;) I saw a float to suspend and practice the other day. Justin
Agbowyer:
I've done it before in ours, but the wife saw the point hitting the bottom and felt it was too hard. I never saw more than a little bitty divot. Seriously I don't think it hurt anything. She's just picky about her wading hole ;D
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