First trips of the year

hungry cow · 04-10-2009, 08:45 PM

I went bowfishing for the first time this year on spring break in Florida. The first day it was really windy and cloudy so I just got some invasive ugly sucker catfish, don't know what they are called. Then today I went back out and it was still windy but I did better and got 3 tilapia, a mullet, and a bowfin. I was happy with 3 new species in one day! I also had 2 tilapia, 2 mullet, and a bowfin about twice as big as this one come off after I hit them. The big bowfin wrapped me around a tree and untwisted the tip. I always regret it when I don't use the garpon tips! I heard the carp are getting ready to spawn back in Tennessee, can't wait to get back and hunt some.

hungry cow · 04-10-2009, 08:48 PM

here are the tilapia

carpsniper · 04-13-2009, 07:09 AM

Nice!

Those are plecostomus suckers. Weird looking critters.

Great bowfin and I sure would like to get into some tilapia. Congrats.

FLORIDA_BOWFISHING · 04-18-2009, 07:27 AM

Yup. Plecos! We shoot them all the time. I can't stand touching those things. I never felt a fish that had sand paper for skin! LOL!! Great Job.

7danny · 05-06-2009, 09:46 AM

Nice Job! That makes a spring break to remember.

wingchaser_labs · 05-06-2009, 06:15 PM

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ORIGINAL: FLORIDA_BOWFISHING

Yup. Plecos! We shoot them all the time. I can't stand touching those things. I never felt a fish that had sand paper for skin! LOL!! Great Job.

Sturgeon feel like sand paper too. Atleast the sand sturgeon I caught walleye fishin did. WCL

HNI_Christine · 05-08-2009, 09:29 AM

I'd really like to shoot some plecos and of course, tilapia. Things that you don't see in IL. (other than in a pet store or grocery store)

One of these days, I'm going to Florida.