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thought i would represent...I love bowfishin on the missouri heres why

isnt that gar cute?

its an old picture but all i have on this computer...thats about an hour of bowfishing in pierre im on the left, we had to stop because both our arrows broke, my rest broke and my buddy lost his string...

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Welcome to the site sponge031!

Nice fish! :D

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Nice fish sponge!
Have you ever gotten into the paddlefish on the missouri?

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That would make for a nice full boat.
Welcome aboard!

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never gotten into paddles...to much effort when the wallies are biting
i know i should though, just another thing on the list i guess

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well sponge you bring up pierre and that reminds me of whitlock...i go up there and spend my whole summer there fishing wit my gpa..he has a cabin up there so usually the whole family is up there for the whole summer..im lookin at ur gar here..man some nice fish!!! speakin of paddle..i come back home and do that..on gavins point damn..i live in crofton nebraska and that's only bout 15 min. away from the south dakota nebraska line...newayz hope to talk to you later..

bigbutteredbuck

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I was hoping to get an out of state nebraska paddle tag, but this year they changed the rules governing out of state tags, made it pretty hard........oh well, try again next year.

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bigbuttered--i worked at the spring creek bait shop for 3 summers in high school, great times, im sure you pass it on your way to whitlock on 1804 there

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What in gods name do you do with that fish??? do you eat them what?? just wondering

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Well Rich,
They can all be eaten, but if that's not your thing they also make some of the best fertilizer.

...and don't worry about bowfishers taking too many carp... any place there are carp, there are usually too many and the population suffers just like deer. Keeping a turnover allows the remaining fish to grow bigger and reduces the amount of silt in the water that can drive away other game fish.

Ever tried bowfishing?
You should come out with us in the spring.

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when you bow fish does the arrow go straight into the water or does it curve

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Howdy!
Welcome aboard.

The arrow's path is straight (well, as straight as any arrow's path is anyway).
It simply looks like it bends or changes direction when it passes through the surface of the water.
This effect is called refraction. It occurs when light travels between media of different densities (like air and water).

What ends up happening is that objects that are submerged like fish and rocks look closer to the surface than they actually are. Objects that pass through the surface of the water look bent.


All you reallly need to know about it is that you have to aim low when shooting fish, unless you're shooting at one that actually has a fin or his back out of the water.

You gonna come out with us in the spring?
Between the bunch of us, we've got a few extra bows and fish arrows.