ORIGINAL: BuffaloBrian
Awesome! I look forward to attending several of the downstate shoots. Is the Carlyle shoot in the main lake or the spillway south (Kaskaskia)?
BB;
Still working the details out with the Corp Of Engineers. Seems there has never been a bowfishing tournament on Carlyle and they have lots of questions. Planned is a day shoot. We know that a lot ofsouthernIllinois bowfishers are not set up to shoot fish at night. We are trying to make the tournament available to shooters without tournament ready boats. Carlyle can also get rough andit would be a safer tournament. There is now a season to shoot fish below the spillway and it would be illlegal in May to shoot fish.There will probably be several boats that have lights that will go out after the tournament is over for the night bite. If you are looking to shoot fish at night you may be able to jump aboard with a someone going out a night. Most bowfisher are glad to take a newbie out.This will not be a numbers tournament but rather a "BIG 15".If we can get the Corp of Engineers to handle the fish disposal we may have some prizes for the most fish shot in addition to the 'BIG 15".You don't happen to have a big farm nearby where we can dispose of a couple thousand rough fish do you? A "BIG 15" will give even the begining bowfishera good change to win the tournament against some seaoned veteran.
Welcome to the site.
Who knows what the dates are to legally shoot below the spillway??
BOWFISHER