Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: H Rhodes on June 15, 2012, 03:47:36 pm
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Went bowfishing for my first time yesterday. The little creek we floated was up some and pretty muddy, so we didn't see but two gar all afternoon. I did get to shoot one time - then had a ball handlining a four foot long gar with an arrow through him.... I got to do this some more! We had a ball!
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good deal buddy,keep up the good work.i am a bowfishing fool for carp.we don't get any big gar here.just small needle nose.if i had gar that big here i would never come home.
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Thanks Seabass. That one was really sort of average for this river. I think when the conditions are really right, we can load the boat up with these smiling jokers... You need to fix a reel on that new yeller stick you just finished and bring it down here!
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Nice. I've been looking for one that size to relieve the skin off of for a bow backing.
George
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That one was given away. I intend to do a lot more of this before summer ends. If I get some decent skins I will let you know George. We have canoed that stretch for years and have always seen lots of gar. I am hooked now. It's like a cross between hunting and fishing!
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Man Howard,i would love to come down there for those gar.i didn't get to go today because i had to fix my truck.i got it fixed today and headed out with the canoe in the morning.don't worry,i have plenty of bows and reels.i'll try and post some pics.
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here is my new rig.i have had the bear recurve since i was eight.the real is a new ams retriever reel and traditional strap on mount that i got from three rivers.i have to say,i don't like getting that high tech.this is one of the best gadgets that i have ever bought.i can shoot 30 feet with this set-up.
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Doggone it! I let my old Bear recurve get away a long time ago. The sight of that emblem made me all nostalgic there for a minute.
I don't know how far it is, but you are welcome any time. I love to canoe to a likely spot where the water slows around a big log jam and then get out and hunt em from the shore. I am hooked on this stuff.
You look loaded for bear there Seabass! I think I am headed in a low tech direction. I will have to post a pic of my new reel. A buddy of mine turned it on his lathe for me from a piece of white oak. I donated the fiberglass recurve in the above photo to my son and will be rigging up one of my selfbows for my next trip.... I got to work on a homemade fishing arrow.... I am not set on my design just yet. That fiberglass arrow and safety slide really work like a charm. It will be hard to duplicate that kind of performance in my little shop. :)
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That one was given away. I intend to do a lot more of this before summer ends. If I get some decent skins I will let you know George. We have canoed that stretch for years and have always seen lots of gar. I am hooked now. It's like a cross between hunting and fishing!
Thanks Howard, that would be great. I have fond memories of bowfishing with an old Darton recurve in the park that went through town when I was in college. As soon as the carp and quillback started spawning I would shoot the heck out of them. Poor folk would line the banks of the little creek and take every fish I thought. Not sure how they cooked them. Some of them would spot for me and let me know when a school was coming. I shot until my fingers could not pull the string anymore. It was a great time. I haven't done much of it since then. I should get back out now that I'm so close to the lake down here.
Good luck with your bowfishing.
George
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Those gar look to be some kind of fun. Have been going down to Boyson Reservoir to shoot carp. Hawk Huston got me going and since I can wade a large shallow lagoon, I just tie the string to my belt and let fly. Works really well and doesn't take long to reload. I shot one really different carp yesterday. It had very large scales and they did not have the straight compact pattern of the regular carp. Can anyone tell me what kind of carp that would be? It really was beautiful. Going again tomarrow so hope to see another one lake that! A/Ho Joe
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I used to occasionally get a carp with just a few scales. They were better looking than common carp. We called them mirror carp. http://www.allfishingbuy.com/Fish-Species/Carp-Mirror.htm (http://www.allfishingbuy.com/Fish-Species/Carp-Mirror.htm) Is that what you shot?
George
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Joe,here in Ohio people started using isrealie carp for bait.they would loose a few or throw them off their hooks.i am now shooting some of them.they have a large hump on their heads and really big scales.they look alot different than common asian carp.i believe they are some form of mirror carp.Howard,i also have a turned reel for my selfbows.it is made of willow and is very beutiful.it was made by a guy on this site.after i used my new fangled reel,i can't see myself using anything else.zero drag on this set-up.i am going in the morning and will let you know how i do.the lake i will be fishing has carp 20 pounds and bigger.i shot one last weekend that got me hung up in the trees then tore off my arrow.i'll give a full report tommarrow.ttyl,Steve
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Nice catch :D
Cipriano
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here is my new rig.i have had the bear recurve since i was eight.the real is a new ams retriever reel and traditional strap on mount that i got from three rivers.i have to say,i don't like getting that high tech.this is one of the best gadgets that i have ever bought.i can shoot 30 feet with this set-up.
Best setup in my book. More time shooting and less time untangling or spooling ;)
Tracy
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you got that right Tracy,i'll never use a spool again.i can get off two shots sometimes at the same fish.i never could have done that with my old spool.
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Nice fishing setup, just don't scratch up that nice Kodiak. :'( ;)
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Looks like fun,nice set up Steve. :)
Pappy
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Eddie,it is a black panther hunter from the seventies.was the first bow my uncle bought.when compounds came around,he switched to a pierson.i scored the bow for 8 bucks.what a bargin.
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Spent the day bow fishing the Boyson. Just wading and shooting. The water was cloudy from all the spawning so had lots of shots at shadows only to have them boil away. Lost count of the hits and kills, but the sea gulls liked the results. Lots of fun! A/Ho Joe Someday I will learn how to post pictures and then you will all be sorry!!
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can't wait to see some pics Joe.i hope you had a great time.bowfishing can be addictive.
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I want to see some pics from you Wolf Watcher! what I do is pretty simple.... I take a picture with my cell phone. Send it to my e-mail. Open it up in my e-mail - right click that picture and save it to my desktop. Go to post a topic here on PA and after you post you click on Attachments and other options. Browse desktop.... and walla! you are posting pics. I bet there is another way, but I am pretty low tech.... that's all I got. My little samsung flip phone lets me edit my photos, so I can resize them to fit here. I got the samsung flip fone for simplicity of use and sheer indestructability, since I manage to break things that aren't "job site" rated.... Now, show me some fish!
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Now that's funny! Just got a new phone and have no idea how to use it! We have no cell phone foot print here and if the phone is not on airplane mode the battery runs down searching for some bars! Getting it to switch from airplane mode to talk is beyond my capability. Have been to the phone people twice and still can't figure it out. Stacey Huston has tried to teach me and since then I have a new confuser with all new ways of photo use! It is undoubtably the most frustrating thing in my life! Now if Pappy and Miss Joanie would come for a visit between the times in the mountains he could teach me how to post the pictures. A couple of years ago Hawk Huston, his son Josiah, and I shot 86 carp in one afternoon. Stacey has some pictures from that day! This ole computer is my life line to the world and I am thankful for the PA site and all the like minded artisans I find there! A/Ho Joe
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Wyoming, huh?..... sorry brother, I don't think my advice is gonna help! ;D
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going fishing tomarrow,i'll post some pics if i get lucky.my buddy Tim is coming by and going with me for the first time.wish us luck.
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Get 'em Seabass. I think this heat wave is gonna keep me in the shade for the next few days.... We need rain.
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we also need the rain.we are going at the worst time,the heat of the day.the carp will be there though.they always seem to be there.if we can hit them or not will be another story.