homemade bowfishing stuff
Has anyone here made their own bowfishing stuff? I took an old fishing rod and cut the rod part off, leaving only the handle and reel. Then I drilled a hole in the end of the handle and stuck in a threaded peice of metal that fits where my stabilizer goes on my recurve, then epoxied the metal piece in the handle of the rod. Next I took an old aluminum arrow and took the insert out, and filled the shaft with sand. and glued the insert back in. Then I took the blades off of a 125grain thunderhead broadhead and bent some stiff wire around the base of the broadhead and the top of the shaft insert and bent it into barbs. Then I made a little loop out of the wire up next to the tip to tie my line onto. Then I epoxied it all together and now if I just tie the line to the loop next to the broadhead and screwed the rod handle and reel onto my bow, I think I' ll be in buisness.
I think it will hold up. I' m not a serious bowfisherman as you can tell, but I think I can get a bluegill or two.