Carp-a-Palooza (sick day)

[Flingblade]

Polarized sunglasses $15
Muzzy fish arrow $17
Bob Lee recurve $550
Reporting back to work with a sunburn after taking a sick day... Priceless
 
Anyone killing any carp/gar?  Any pictures of the big alligator gar down south?  What do you do with them?  I use them to fertilize the garden.

[Izzy]

Cool, some nice carp.That second fish from the right looks like a drum or sheepshead.We cant shoot em here and where you can catch em is always reeking of poo poo cause thats whats in there.Anyone know if theyre good eating as long as they dont swim in the poo poo water?

[Stone Knife]

It's been slow here but we have had some hot weather so they should be moving this weekend.

[VTer]

Nice mess of fish!
We've had pretty good luck here the last 2 weekends. The carp are going at it. Hoping this weekend is the same.
 
 
BTW, I hope you feel better!  

[Uncle Buck]

Drum or sheepshead are trash fish in Michigan. I never ate one but know people that do. They are supposed to be ery oily fish. I always just buried them, worms gotta eat too

[Izzy]

OOOOOOOh that gar is cool.Gotta get me one of them.

[Larry Surtees]

   

[Lefty]

Nice mess of fish!  I have eaten alot of sheepshead.  Out of a cold river and if you remove the mudline they are pretty good eating.  We also used to dig out the fish stone found in their head, on the bid ones.  That's probably not what they are called actually, but that's what my granddad called them.

[owlbait]

I hear they are good smoked. I didn't know they were legal to shoot anymore in Michigan. Guess I need to check the regs better. We always called them Lucky stones because they had an "L" shape on them.

[owlbait]

My bad. Must've shot them in Lake Michigan. I see the Great Lakes and some of the big rivers are open for drum. See a lot more of them now in further inland than before.

[Flingblade]

Yes; carp, gar, drum, catfish and a few other species I'm not familiar with are legal in the great lakes.  I think only carp and gar are legal in the inland lakes that are non trout waters.  One of my favorite places to bowfish is a tributary to Lake Michigan where I can run out on the lake and bowfish or fish for salmon there as well.  I shoot most of the carp up the river in the slack water but when you find them on the big lake they are big.  I've tried eating them from very clean water and still can't stomach carp or drum.  Even tried canning them and making fish cakes.  No good.  Never tried gar though.

[mookie]

I've ate quite a few carp and they aren't bad at all. I've also tried to eat gar and never could get it swallowed.

[Flingblade]

That is a big spotted gar Vter.  I haven't seen one that big here.   Do you eat them?

[Shinken]

The worst day TRAD BOW-fishin' is better than the best day at work!

You gentlemen had some *spectacular* days on the water!

Good shootin'!

Shoot straight, Shinken

[stevemfwills]

awesome day there...they are spawning at one of my local res.going tommorrow

[Todweelz]

Went out on Saginaw bay last night, fish were'nt rolling on the bay, but the canals and little inlets had quite a few fish in them, shot a few missed a bunch, missed one BIG dogfish [bowfin] 3-times he kept coming back, finally got board of me throwing a stick at him and left, did I mention BIG, biggest one I've seen.

[bmb]

shot 58 the other night. headed out this weekend for some big grassies!


 

[BLA]

I like that bow, flingblade!!!

[Fletcher]

That's a big spot 'cause it's a longnose.

[Flingblade]

Thanks Mr. Lee; the bow's a real shooter.  Been puttin' arrows in critters since 1996!
Way to go bmb!  Nice pic.  I need to mount lights on my boat for a night shoot. No sunburns that way.