I got a call from Vince who's running this year's Wonder Lake Carp Shoot. The date for tournament will be Saturday, June 20th.

This shoot is in Northeast IL in Mchenry county. Registration starts at 5am and the tournament runs until noon. No lights needed.

$20 per shooter with an optional $5 per person big fish pot.Three divisions:individuals, two person team or a three person team.

Food and drink is provided at the weigh in. Door prizes and cash awards for big fish and first place finishers in the different divisions.

This is a really fun, laid back tourny. We will be counting it for our bowfisher of the year points.

More details as they become available.

Here's more info:

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Carp Bowfishers Shoot

June 20th, 6:00 AM - 12 Noon[/align][align=left][/align][align=left]Registration Begins at 4:30 AM day of the shoot, and will run until 8 AM.[/align][align=left]
Fees
Kids 15 & under are Free,1 Man $20, 2 Man, $40, 3 Man $60 (Per Team)[/align][align=left]
Location
Shore Hills Beach of Wonder Lake IL. 2/3 Mile south of Center Beach on East Lakeshore Drive.[/align][align=left]

• Hot Dogs, Soda & Water will be available throughout the event. We’ll continue to cook afterwards so we all can enjoy good food and good company. Come on out and experience a great time with us!!!!![/align][align=left]
• The Awards Ceremony for All Three Brackets will Begin at 12:30 PM at Center Beach[/align][align=left]
• Throughout the Event, there will be available for Purchase, Raffle Tickets for Door Prizes and a 50/50. The Raffles will be held after the awards Ceremony. All proceeds from this event go towards the conservation of Wonder Lake.

Contact Vince Lucania (815) 728-0338

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I plan to be there with my boat, although it'll be limping along on the troller only, wind permitting.

We'll have 3 generations on my boat: me, my Dad, and my daughter.
Should be fun. Hope to see everybody.

Chris

Bring the outboard Chris. I'll start it for ya the first time.

I'll be there.

Well, you do seem to have a knack for starting it when no one else can get it to do anything but chug, cough,and backfire. If I thought it had a chance of running, I'd bring enough gas to let it idle all day after you get it started.

I'll get it running eventually. I'm just not putting any money into the boat this season, so it may not be until next year.

Just heard that Diana(CHZHEAD)and Deb will be dropping south from Wisconsin for the shoot.

Bump.

There sure are a lot of shoots this weekend.

I heard Mark kicked y'alls butts. Where's the pics and what's the story?

Oh sure, now I have to edit my post to make sense.

We uh, didn't get our butts kicked wecame in second in the two person team so there. Neener, neener! [8D]

It was a great shoot. The carp were spawning pretty hard. The wind was a bit tough. (without our 80lb troller pulling the pontoon boat around, we really had to stay out of the wind)
We got into carp immediately but most of them stayed up under the brush which made shooting them (and getting the shot ones to the boat) pretty difficult. I think Mark and Denny shot more in the flooded yards where they didn't bust brush like us. Smart move.

As usual, the Wonder Lake Sportsman's Club did a great job putting on the shoot. Thanks to Vince and his crew! We brought up a big box of door prizes to add to thier door prize table. I'm pretty sure everybody went to the table at least 3 times. Mark did win a bow and I also won one. Sweet!


There were several dad and kids teams.


Many carp were harmed.


K and I got 44.


Still didn't fill the dumpster tho'. [:@]


Mr Lucky and K.




Chris and Jessie




Vince ran things like a pro.




One person division winner.


Some Yahoos won the two person division. (Heh.. Congrats!! you guys rocked!)


Big fish winner Mark 'Lucky' Shipton.


Three person team winners.


Halfway through the door prizes.






Woohoo! I won a bow. (don't be jealous of my awesome hair style)


Mark wins the other bow.


A big thanks to the guys that donated the bows!!


Kendall's threaded insert poppedout causing his reel to fall into the lake. It happened when he shot a carp. Happily the carp swam toward shore so it was easy to fish the reel/line/arrow/carp back out. It could have ended a lesser man's bowfishing outing... but not fora skilled toolmaker like K. LOL!!

K's custom reel holder on'er thing. (you might know it better as electric tape)

Crap. I didn't mean for my post to look that nasty. I'm sorry. It didn't look that bad at first. I was just pokin' at you and Kendall.

I re-wrote it.