Jenngins compound bow, some where around 55-60 lbs of draw weight. Its my old deer hunting bow. Think I am shooting 400 lb fast flight line. Arrows and tips are what ever the local archery shop had. I don't have a clue what brand the arrows and tips are. I don't have much experience with big carp. I'd show a bunch of small ones, and only those two big fish and they pulled off.

I was bow fishing out of a 2 man scamp in a strip pit that I kept seeing some big carp in. I got a arrow in one when it was start'n to get dark. It stripped off quite a bit of line and I recovered some, and then it went down to the bottom under my boat. I fought it a bit try'n to get it to come up and the arrow came out. Big fish #2, same body of water. Idrew back and let flyand the fish took off on a runnnnnn, so I turned the min kota on high try'n to chase after it. It took all the line off my reel and yanked the arrow out.

My bow fishing reel is the one with the jug that holds the line and there's no drag unless you pull the level back to pinch the line. I couldn't pull that level tight enough to slow that fish down.

So thats why I was wondering what you guys thought. I've never tryed bow fishing at night. Are big carp less spooky at night? I'm bow fishing in strip pits that are reclaimed from the old coal mining days. Seems I rarely see these big fish. I've seen several monsters one day in one pit, and haven't seen them since. Theyare really spooky.