Do you bow fish? Pics.

[jerad]

none taken, I am also enjoying this fish talk
about that upper fish, it had the accute angle on the lower lip so im standing by my Identification

heres a site that i like to use to help id fish, its for Wisconsin but still very useful for Iowegians (as were called in Wisconsin)
Fish ID

 

[iowaqdm]

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wow they are way too big to be goldens, sometimes you cant really tell from the picture
muddy, count me in on being a fish nerd

while were on the redhorse craze, heres what I id'd in the field as a silver and shorthead redhorse

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I don't know about you guys but when I see this picture I'm not thinking about how these would taste on a Ritz cracker. I think about how one of those on a big ol' circle hook would catch me a 50# flathead. Then I'd get a couple boxes of shore lunch and a pot of grease. Round up a cooler of ice cold beverages. Call up a few buddies and enjoy! At least that way you would have something worth eating.

 

[Skully]

I'd stab em in the air sack with a fillet knife and watch em sink to the bottom. I hate carp! You carp huggers keep talking though, I'm learning here.

 

[Musky Hunter]

shorthead, golden, I have no clue

I like Skully am learning

But they all look like musky and northern bait to me

Ya Baby, bring on the slimmers

 

[Fishbonker]

OK, when I pull a "carp" outta the water, what are the chances it is really a carp and not some short headed v-lipped red somethin or other? Put another way, if I catch 100 carp outa the river, pick a river, how many of those 100 are gonna be carp carp and not some other kinda carp?

I guess I wanna know so someday when I'm taken grandkids fishin I can say with some authority, "that thing right there is a carp" and not have some grandkid that maybe smarter than me say "you are wrong grampabonker that right there is a longheaded double v lipped redtailed sucker fish" to which my reply will be "If I toll you oncent I toll you a hunert times, ya kain't never listen to nuthin that Muddy fella says, now fetch your grampa his bottle of Makers, his lumbagos a actin up".

The 'Bonker

 

[THA4]

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shorthead, golden, I have no clue

I like Skully am learning

But they all look like musky and northern bait to me

Ya Baby, bring on the slimmers

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Yes, Musky Bait.....big fish like this one eats them tasty things.......
and yes, Muddy, He swam away....fish like that deserve thier freedom.

and i had a pretty neat bowfishing experience once.....
two fish with one arrow....

 

[bowhuntr311]

After looking at that cheesehead site for a few min. Im pretty sure they are River Redhorse in my picture.

I've got 15 on shore this year and 7 have came off my arrow after a fight.

I got another 7 plus pounder last night. Im quite a bit shy of the state record but Im watching for biggun's.

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and i had a pretty neat bowfishing experience once.....
two fish with one arrow....


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Yea Ive been trying for that this year like you wouldnt beleive but all my arrow momentum is stopped by the first fish. My best try left a torn piece of meat on the side of the 2nd fish's head.

Dean

 

[Seth]

Catch them on the mighty Maquoketa Muddy?? Looks to me like the stretch between Millertown and Royertown Bridge. Just a guess.

 

[Limb Chicken]

Yea well what do you call this one then???

 

[Full Quiver]

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Yea well what do you call this one then???

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Invasive species...

 

[THA4]

EXTERMINATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Skully]

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Yea well what do you call this one then???

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From the look on Bonk's face it looks like he's polluting the stream. And that fish??? Why that's an eastern v-eared, shallow-watered, long-toothed, mud shark. Very rare indeed!

 

[muddy]

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Catch them on the mighty Maquoketa Muddy?? Looks to me like the stretch between Millertown and Royertown Bridge. Just a guess.

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Way northeast Iowa on them, Elkport/Garber area. There are no fish on the Maquoketa River, just carp.

 

[Fishbonker]

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Yea well what do you call this one then???

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BAIT!

The 'Bonker

 

[Benny]

Bottom fish is a shorthead redhorse.

The top fish is a silver or golden redhorse.

If you close the mouth, the silver redhorse will have a deep V on their lower lip. Golden redhorse have thicker lips and are more rounded and do not have the deeper V shape lower lip.

Here is a quick cheat sheet for you.

If it has a red tail it does not have red in its name (shorthead, river and greater redhorse). If it has a slate tail is has color in its name(black, silver and golden redhorse).

 

[Seth]

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There are no fish on the Maquoketa River, just carp.


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I caught me a channel cat just last weekend on the Maquoketa and I've heard the smallies are biting too- just couldn't get one to bite for me.

 

[THA4]

Hey Seth

Try Dynaminte.....
the fish cant seem to say no to that stuff....

 

[teeroy]

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Yea well what do you call this one then???

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looks like a muddbutt