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Bowfishing at Brushy... What a Blast!!!

Bukslayr

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Well it all started on Friday night, THA4, JDG83, and I went down to the spillway at Brushy to catch some fish. When we got down there we seen carp everywhere. The wheels started rolling in my head and I thought to myself "I havent bowfished in probably 15 years. I should go and get out the old Bear recurve and set it up." So this morning I ran out to my parents house to get the bow and get the bowfishing reel. After re-serving the string on the recurve I was ready to go.
THA4, and I got down there about 3pm this afternoon. Fisherman everywhere were looking at us and saying to themselves "What the hell are these guys doing with bows?" Well after the first fish I shot they were coming up to us saying "hey there are some carp down here". So as the afternoon progressed we had a lot of misses and few hits. Here are few pics. You need to go try this sometime this summer!!

Here is me at full draw on a monster!!
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Here is a pic of the monster!
My belly kinda puts it in perspective.
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Here is Thomas with his Monster!!
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Wife and I have been wanting to get back into this. I haven't bowfished in years. I see all of these new bottle type reels with the green string and am wanting to get these setups on our bows. You have given us the fever. Great pics, thanks for sharing.
 
Bowfishing is a blast. Three of us were out until 3 am last night bowfishing. Great way to spend a day or a night.
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Til 3am? Never heard of anyone doing that late...
 
I have seen guys on TV in Jon boats and all of the shooting was late night with one guy running light for the shooters.
 
This is not my boat. I wish it was. Just found it on a website. This is in my opinion the coolest bowfishing rig I have seen. You could shoot all night with a boat like this.

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my neighbor up the road has one of those boat`s. always thought it`s was a funny looking fishing boat. now that i know what it`s used for ,makes me want to go down and chat with this old guy and see if he`s bow fishing.
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That guy must be a diehard!!!
I would love to have that boat!

I wonder how many batteries he has on that boat to power those lights?
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What is that fish Thomas is holding? THat's not one of those bighead carp everyone is so upset about is it? Definitely not a common carp.
 
There's a bowfishing tourney south of Oskaloosa this weekend. Down by Eveland Access if anyone from south central Iowa knows where that is.
Unfortunately, I won't be around but anyone who wants can go down and see what the teams bring in.
I've got my money on Team Stabbin' Sticks!
P.S. Boyd can set you up with an old bow and bowfishing
rig over at Buck Hollow if anyone is interested.
 
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