Originally Posted by
robm1093
I am a bow hunter and won’t kill anything that I won’t eat or that can be given to others to eat. I understand the Asian carp are a problem but it seems to me guys are bow fishing just for fun. Is this good Hunting ethics to kill a common carp just for fun? I think not if you’re not eating it or giving it to others to eat then it wrong and other hunters I know fell the same way,. Their are those that will say common carp eat bass eggs and destroy bass habitat but nun of this has ever bin proven and new study suggest it’s all misinformation. Bass eat carp and man takes out the bass and eats all the predators now that the number of predators are low the carp get the balm the same thing happens in polluted water the carp survive and the other fish don’t, wan bass anglers see all the carp and no bass they balm the carp. It’s wrong to kill for fun and that’s what most of those are doing wan that kill common carp with a bow unless you are eating them you must think about this, the Asian carp on the other hand are a problem and you are doing sum good by taken them out. The carp I am talking about are not the Asian carp thay are common. I hunt for food and enjoyment and what I kill gets eaten by me and others. I will never kill just for fun and I think Bow fishing is giving Bow hunters bade rep. If your bow fishing just for the sake of shooting sum fish and calling it practice or fun and just living the carp to rot then you knead to think about this and cheek your self. did you eat those fish ? If not you killed gods creations just for fun and not for food, that’s not the way he planed it
I understand how you feel, I was raised to only kill what you are going to eat. But I was also raised to care about game management.
You say it is OK to kill Asian carp? This contradicts you kill only what you will eat philosophy. I am a bit confused here. You are saying it is OK to kill Asian carp because they are an invasive species? You do know that ALL carp are invasive species.
Here is a couple links about the invasive common carp:
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/invasives...arp/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carp
I do agree that some bowfishers do shoot just for fun, but that does not mean all bowfishers do. It is just like saying all hunters are bad because of a couple poachers. It is unfair for you to come down on bowfishers and generalize them without knowing their true intentions.
There have also been studies which show carp effect the ecological system of lakes, for example:
http://www.carpbusters.com/documents...all%20lake.pdf
So yes, common carp and other carp are an invasive specie that does effect game fish and yes there has been studies from universities and scientist to prove this.
I hope you spend more time investigating what we are doing and see that most bowfishermen only have the best intentions at heart and not judge us by the few bad apples. And yes, my favorite is smoked grass carp, delicious.