Allseasonhunter7

woud you mind posting pictures of bighead carp and/or silver carp jumping. i dont want pictures of shot ones. its for a research project. if your face is in it i or you can block it out of you choose

HNI_Christine

Allseason,

Bigheads don't jump. Silvers are the jumpers. When we run the river we occasionally have grass carp jump into the boat too.

It's hard to get jumping fish pictures.

First two arefrom Sam Wood's first bowfishing video outing. (IL River at Peru)
When we were out with Sam making his DVD, we saw literally thousands of the darn things. (and got hit by too many)

Third photo is from J Jenkins of the University of Missouri.

HNI_Christine

This is one of my favorite pictures.

Chris Brackett of Brackett Outdoors sent me this.

Gotta love it!

Allseasonhunter7

i know they do not jump i meant to put silver "jumping" carp or bighead. thanks i knew you had pics

HNI_Christine

I figured you've been around bowfishing long enough to know better. A lot of people do think they both jump tho', so I thought I clarify that.

They hybrid bighead/silver crosses kind of porpoise out of the water, not really jumping clear out. They're easy to shoot when they do that.

You need anything else, let me know.

HNI_Christine

Here's my only live bigheads photo. I should have taken more last year, but I was too busy shooting them.

It's hard to see them with the glare, but you can see how big their mouths are.

CHZHead

Seeing those big heads makes me want to make a trip to Kentucky dam!!!
Christine, Deb & I have to set up a trip to Peru with you guys to try this!!
I'd LOVE to shoot one on the fly.

Allseasonhunter7

ya are there public boat launches? id shoot a few

carpsniper

Di, Let's set something up.

Tim, Yeah we only use public ramps/launches.

Fishhunter

Makes me wish for summer. Floating along, seeing their mouths open while feeding, picking the biggest one, and WHAM! Hang on tight 'cause they're taking the boat for a ride.