Ya, I've seen some shot close to 12 feet! 
This a pretty good site for the equipment!
http://www.amsbowfishing.com/
This a pretty good site for the equipment!
http://www.amsbowfishing.com/HOW TO ELASTICATE YOUR POLE.
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I like to think I understand fishing and I like to think I understand shooting I do both as I do both but I don’t understand bow I understand Americans think Carp are scum but I hat seeing things like this that Gar has taken years to get to that size the sport you could have had with him on rod and line would be great and he would live to fight again and reproduce. People don’t even eat them it’s a trophy shot and dog food very sad in my eyes.
All gar species reproduce very slowly. If you're not going to eat them, return them to the water. Y'all have to remember that the large fish are the breeding stock killing them serves no purpose.
All gar species reproduce very slowly. If you're not going to eat them, return them to the water. Y'all have to remember that the large fish are the breeding stock killing them serves no purpose.
Some people eat it....
Ok, this post is gonna get ugly so I'll stop now. Let's just say to each his own!
Ok, this post is gonna get ugly so I'll stop now. Let's just say to each his own!
Carp are a problem fish in a great number of US waters, they sometimes even have a bounty on them, last time I got a large carp it was with a 12 guage shotgun. In the river near where I live it is illegal to return them to the river if you catch one.
I eat gar but have only caught smaller ones, 3-4'. I don't think I could kill a monster like that big one.
California does allow bowfishing for nongamefish species such as sacramento pikeminnows and carp.
California does allow bowfishing for nongamefish species such as sacramento pikeminnows and carp.
there a problem every where because they breed is such large numbers and are pure eating machines, but we here in the uk have managed to control it to a degree by building fisherys which house's these fish then they in turn are controled naturally by adding predatorys into the fisherys such as pike, zander, perch and catfish !guppy;644201; said:
geeze im glad surf fishing isnt so complex and expensive I've seen the "Match Fishing" rods a few times over here and according to the owners they were about $800-1.5k US. I use 12' H-XH fast-taper rods w/ Penn 9500ss's loaded with 50-65lb powerpro. Just throw out a live/cut bait stick it in a rock/sand spike rod holder and wait for the strike.
Big heads and silvers especially.guppy;644201; said:
Here, you can actually get fined by the DNR for NOT killing one of these fish.
The silvers have a habit (and I've had it happen to me this year) of jumping 6-10 feet out of the water when spooked by an outboard.
The one one that hit me in the shoulder and landed in the boat was only about 4 lbs, but still scared the hell out me.
Folks have been hurt (reportedly) pretty bad from them.
DNR states any fish (big heads or silvers) caught by any means must be immediately killed and left out of the water.
They would really like to be contacted as well about the catch so they can track the movements of them.
Since they are filter feeders, grow like mad, and get large, they are up setting the very basic food chain rungs at the bottom. Zooplankton, Phytoplankton, etc. Things every fish and aquatic animal needs to feed on at some stage of life.
I even read an article recently where they are spending millions to re-vamp an elctric barrier to keep them from getting into the Great Lakes from the Miss. river system.
