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Author Topic: First fish of the year  (Read 188 times)

Offline silent sniper

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First fish of the year
« on: May 11, 2014, 11:31:00 AM »
I went out bow fishing for the first time this year.  It was past 10 pm by the time I got down to the outlet. The water was high and muddy which made for a bad night of fishing. Just as I was about to leave I saw a shape swimming up the current. By the time I was ready to shoot it spooked from the light and took off.   I drew back and let er loose as the fish quickly swam past me.                                                                                                          A smile crossed my face as I watched my arrow plow into the fish as it took off up the current.  After I short fight I had my hands on my first fish of the year.  It was a beautiful 23" silver sucker, my biggest sucker to date. Call me crazy but I think the silver sucker is a beautiful fish. One of these days Im going to have to get one mounted if its big enough.   Id say this is a good start to the season.  Cheers SS  

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Re: First fish of the year
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2014, 12:15:00 PM »
Nice! I agree with you...they are pretty fish. My wife is thinking about mounting one she killed yesterday.

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Re: First fish of the year
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2014, 01:49:00 PM »
Congrats!

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Offline Mudd

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Re: First fish of the year
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2014, 02:06:00 PM »
Nice fish!

Congratulations!!

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Offline tradhunter

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Re: First fish of the year
« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2014, 07:19:00 PM »
What a fun time it is to fling the sticks at the fish!
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Offline JEFF B

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Re: First fish of the year
« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2014, 09:33:00 PM »
way cool dude
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other times i let her sleep"

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Re: First fish of the year
« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2014, 09:40:00 PM »
Congrats looks like a great time!
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Offline Brianlocal3

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Re: First fish of the year
« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2014, 09:56:00 PM »
Outstanding brother.

I had a clean up day last Monday and hammered them. Yesterday was skunked.  Good job
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Offline Charlie Lamb

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Re: First fish of the year
« Reply #8 on: May 11, 2014, 09:57:00 PM »
Nice fish, but a taxidermist nightmare!! Around here the suckers are excellent eating... how about that one?
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Re: First fish of the year
« Reply #9 on: May 11, 2014, 10:03:00 PM »
Congrats on your fish.  They are good smoked, or you can grind them up and make fish patties much like crab cakes.  Great stuff.
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Offline Trumpkin the Dwarf

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Re: First fish of the year
« Reply #10 on: May 12, 2014, 04:02:00 PM »
I prefer steelhead for looks...
But nice shot!
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Offline SheltonCreeker

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Re: First fish of the year
« Reply #11 on: May 12, 2014, 08:25:00 PM »
Congrats! Thanks for sharing.
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Offline LB_hntr

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Re: First fish of the year
« Reply #12 on: May 13, 2014, 01:03:00 AM »
very nice!
If you want a cool way to mount a light for bowfishing look at the one i have in this video. It will let you shoot with a light on your bow or also look at the headlamp set up in the video. Best fishing light set up out there.
 http://tbwpodcast.com/video-26-bowfishing-equipment-overview/

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