Stick bows for Carp

[twomoons]

I use to shoot a lot of carp and rough fish with a bow. By a lot I mean in one tournement we won with a canoe full of carp, carp piled upto the gunnels in a 17 foot canoe. I fiund over the years that nothing beats a stick bow for fish. I tried a nice Darton compound one year and found several disadvantages for all round hunting. First was overpenetration. You have to pull a copmpound back to full draw and that means full power for every shot. If you are shooting in the shallows that means the arrow goes throught the fish and into the bank, bottom or weeds. You also have to shoot a compound from a proper position, no hip shooting or such. In addition is you can't afford a bow just for fishing a standard hunting bow is too powerfull for most bow fishing, you just don't need 70 pounds of pull to anchor a 5 pound carp.

My personal choice for a fishing bow is a 40 pounddraw long bow. I can short stroke it for close shots and at full draw i can still shoot clear through a 25 pound buffalo carp. I can shoot from the hip or off to the side with no problem. Best of all when the day is over I slip off the string and swish the bow in the river and wipe it off and it's good to go for the next time.

[jmarriott]

Call me old fashioned but i still use the old carp gig and a long pole. We do the fields when the carp run as the creeks overflow the banks and empty into the fields.

[Purebred Redneck]

Yeah when that river backs up, you just drive down the gravel roads and at every little bridge there's 10 trucks, beer cans all over the place, and everyone's slinging arrows with "starter bows" ;D

[twomoons]

I've got some great pictures of my dad on the tailgate of a truck spearing carp swimming under the truck. I prefer the taste of Buffalo in clearer water so I like to arrow them. For eating i lke 5 pounds or under but i have brought in ones as big as 25 pounds. Bill's Mom use to make pickled herring from carp and it was super, I wish i had gotten a recipe.

[jmarriott]

WE use to sell them to the black farmer down the street and he was always glad to see us when it rained in the spring. He said something about a mud vein and cleaning them properly but we would just use the money to get fishing stuff and 22 rounds.

dad use to to the Indian thing and plant corn over the carp in the garden.

[bounce]

When the Brazil creek had the mill in the old days when they dumped the brand ben in the creek my granddad would take a wheelbrow and a pitchfork to the creek and fill it up and can the fish.
does that give you any Ideas DD? Throw in a few scoupfulls in the evening & again in the morning for a few days, I would start up stream as far as you could. And don't forget to have a canning resipe handy. but you could probibly catch them right at the house.