RE: Bowfishing legal question
A lotta' times the problem with bowfishing is it's smack in between hunting and fishing... you are fishing, but you are using a projectile-firing device... a misdemeanor in many locales.
There are alot of city parks around here that are teeming with rough fish, and Lord knows they need to be thinned out (census estimates for many Texas lakes indicate that for every 100 lbs of fish living in a given body of water, 80 lbs are rough fish, carp, gar shad etc.).
Only problem with the city-parks is that projectile-firing devices have been outlawed for many years, might be the same where you are at.
When my father was in school in a rural community, kids were allowed to take guns to school and put them in their lockers so that they could hunt while walking back home.
The world has changed much since then...
BP