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New rules: Bowfishing is open year round and catfish, suckers, drum, bullhead, and burbot are now legal as well as the rough fish that was legal before! Finally, some no nonsense rules and a chance to shoot some eaters!
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My son was just asking me today on our hike if we could go fish shootin for catfish. I told him not yet, and we have to wait till May. Guess I have some good news for him in the morning.
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Ask me about the PBS, We Stand for Ethics. Posts: 4139 | From: Michigan | Registered: Sep 2005
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How can you get a cat fish? At night maybe? Out here they are always in the deep.
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Great news in the fight against invasive species! My hat is off to those that lobbied to get this done. Having worked to change many of KY's bowfishing regulations, I know the time that someone invested in this one! AWESOME!
-------------------- Backwater Bowfishing Pro Staff. MossyOak Pro Staff. They can have my bow when it's pried from my cold dead fingers. Posts: 870 | From: KY | Registered: Jul 2008
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HONESTLY AT NIGHT WOULD BE YOUR BEST BET. BUT IT CAME UP THE RIVER AND SWAM RITE OVER A HUGE SLATE ROCK AND I SEEN IT COMING CAUSE OF THE LOW WATER IN THE SUMMER AND I GOT EXCITED LIKE IT WA A DEER. AND SHOT RITE OVER ITS BACK. IT WAS A DANDY.
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Man, we had catfish legal for one year; then TPWD recinded it and we can no more shoot the catfish. It sure was fun bowfishing for good eating fish! Hope y'all have fun in April.
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-------------------- TGMM Family of the Bow Posts: 4094 | From: Georgetown, Texas | Registered: Sep 2008
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Thumper, Around here after a good rain you can find a small feeder stream or drainage going into the river and the cats will be around the mouth of the inlet.
-------------------- I would've taken better care of myself,if I'd known I was gonna live this long! Posts: 1456 | From: Paola,kansas | Registered: Apr 2006
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Bowfishing has always been open year round for those species on certain bodies of water.
-------------------- "Live like you ain't afraid to die....don't be scared, just enjoy the ride." Posts: 340 | From: Ludington, MI | Registered: Jan 2008
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I should also point out that you still can't bowfish on designated trout streams or lakes.
Disregard. Found the proposed FO-219.12
Wow does that simplify things...and a long time coming.
Basically, all bodies of water that were open during the past seasons are now open year round and a lot of gear limits have been removed so that bow and arrow are now classified the same as a spear.
I'm a huge fan of this...however, I'd voice my opposition greatly should a proposal ever be made to open up designated trout streams/lakes to bowfishing.
-------------------- "Live like you ain't afraid to die....don't be scared, just enjoy the ride." Posts: 340 | From: Ludington, MI | Registered: Jan 2008
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AND if you fellows like those yummy Whitefish,THEY can be taken with a bow as well. this is also new law. Check the DNR site for specifics,but I do know that it IS legal when they are spawning on West Michigans flooded river mouths. Like Muskegon Channel. Where they get a heck of a run in late November. Check the regulations for boundry line info. rat'
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