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Topic: Bowfishing gear for newbie  (Read 607 times)

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dwest

  • Salmon
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  • Date Registered: Jun 2006
  • Posts: 224
I will be a new bowfisher from my kayak soon, but welcome advice on gear. 

For various reasons I will be shooting a recurve, almosy exclusively in freshwater.  My main questions are about reels and arrowheads/points, but any other suggestions welcome.

Thoughts?

Thanks!
dwest -  just a guy. (Occasionally posting quasi-fictional-hopefully-amusing stuff under the pen name StocktonDon.)


dilbeck

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  • Date Registered: May 2006
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Wow, Don lives on.  Thought you'd disappeared off the face of the earth.

Sorry, don't have any suggestions or thoughts, just thought I'd welcome you back.  :smt006

Are you still in Stockton?  Do you still have the Adventure?



mako1

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  • Date Registered: Jul 2005
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Are you going to stand up in your yak? Otherwise I don't see how you'll be able to draw your bow and have it's lower end clear the surface of the water. Since it's a recurve, maybe you're holding it slightly parallel to the water's surface? I know I could shoot my compound from my yak, but only uphill, and that would be difficult.
I've been considering it. I don't have the pieces, but have seen some in action. The arrow is commonly solid glass with a sliding attachment for the cord which supposedly lessens tangles and scarey incidents. The "reel" I believe attaches to the riser where the stabilizer normally goes. The cord goes into an enclosed bottle looking container. I've seen it shot by several different guys and it seems foolproof. It's what I would get.
The head is just a point with fold-down wire barbs. I don't think that has changed in many years.
Just Google, there's pics all over the place of this stuff.
If you don't know where you're headed, any road could get you there.


dwest

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  • Date Registered: Jun 2006
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Thanks for the welcome back.  Been some tough times.

I do not think I will have to stand to shoot but I have been wwrong before.

Going to get a recurve bow that is fairly short, and do anticipate having to angle the bow often to avoid the water.

I have been to a coupke archery shops and online, but i just wondered if there was some real world advice available.
dwest -  just a guy. (Occasionally posting quasi-fictional-hopefully-amusing stuff under the pen name StocktonDon.)


dwest

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  • Date Registered: Jun 2006
  • Posts: 224
Living on sailboat in Stockton and still have the Adventure.
dwest -  just a guy. (Occasionally posting quasi-fictional-hopefully-amusing stuff under the pen name StocktonDon.)


 

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