Gar bow hunting
- Thread starter raymondk394
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no I hear you. I wasn't trying to imply that wasn't your message. I agree with you
I don't know what the success rate is with bowfishing. only way i'd be against it is if more often then not, you injure the fish and fail to land it. then you have a fish with a bad wound. whereas if you lose it on a line and hook the fish has much better chance of recovering
I'm thinking the divide between you and dives opinions here is you can't see the actual problem carp cause in this state. I don't know maybe you have a bad carp overpopulation as well there but believe me when I say you could kill 1000 carp every day for the next 6 months and not even dent the population in some waterways here. Like I said during spawning you can easily tell there are over 100,000 carp in sections of one local lake here...and that's just a 1 mile section of the lake...add the fact that dive doesn't like to see native roughs killed for food or otherwise and you get this argument you two seem to have on multiple threads lol.
no he wouldn't. he hates the invasive carp and has no pity on how they are disposed. the more the better
I'm only assuming it depends on the skill of the guy with the bow. I've watched bowfishing youtube videos and most of the time if you hit the fish in any respect they seemed to be killed fairly quickly, whether the arrow stuck or not. These guys were walking a creek and getting carp, suckers and channel cats though so I imagine big fish like gar would have a higher wounding chance.
Buffaloes are dirty common where I live at, and they can be bad as carps. We did a roughfish removal (traps or gillnets) and it still didn't put a dent on suckers/buffalo populations.
ok, fair enough. in your state I'd more than advocate the removal of those species haha.
Then go out and check them out during their annual spawning up in the creeks. You could be surprised.
