Have Had Enough Of Bowfisherman

[Old plug]

After all the problems I have been reading about Table Rock. I am beginning to think its not so bad up here at LOZ. At the same time with all the cost both personal and financial I got to wonder if it is really worth it.

[Greasy B]

After all the problems I have been reading about Table Rock. I am beginning to think its not so bad up here at LOZ. At the same time with all the cost both personal and financial I got to wonder if it is really worth it.

Yeah, I don't know how you guys deal with any of the lakes. Last weekend over 3 days fishing one of the best bass rivers in the state I only seen a dozen other water craft and only one boat of real fishermen.

[Old plug]

Greasy-----i am sort of refleting back over 65+ years of doing this. I know how it was and how it is now. I am not happy with a lot of the changes that have occurred over that time. Both in the commercial end and the effect on personnel lives.

[WettinLine]

Does any have the number of bass tournaments ran off Table Rock last year? Years back it was over 300, now that is sick! I'm heading out this afternoon to do my part and stringer up some bass, I figure if I catch enough it will help lower the amount of traffic!

I hope everyone plays nice this weekend, and be safe out there.

“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

[MOPanfisher]

Hmm over the years I have been "cut off" by bass fishermen, crappie fishermen, white bass fishermen, walleye fishermen, jet skis, pontoons, just plain old boats, canoes & kayaks on streams, even by a couple of very aggressive snakes, so what. Nothing you can do about it but lament the disappearance of common courtesy. However this spring while crappie I did have a boat ease up to us and ask if it was OK for them to move down the bank ahead of us bassfishing for the tournament they were in. Well hell yeah, get after it, we just held up for 10 minutes or so and watched them fish the bank, then eased down the bank catching nice crappie. We used to shoot carp with a bow, had some hogs that absolutely loved them. I have no problem with someone shooting all the carp/drum they can legally take, but don't like seeing them floating around and creating a stink. But then again I don't like seeing several large catfish/spoolbill etc. dumped at the ramp almost in the water, sure can create a "special" stink. I am too old school, I still pull off the small roads on the shoulder when I meet a combine or trailer load of hay etc., stop short of a 90 degree turn in the small towns when a tractor trailer are getting to the turn to give them room to swing wide. Common courtesy just ain't very common anymore.

[Josh Holt]

I bow fish but do it in the daytime. We take our carp home scale them fillet them cut them into strips to use on truman jug fishing for white cats. The make awesome catfishing bait for channels and blue cat. It is a fun sport to get into but being disrespectful of other boaters is not helping the sport. It is called common curtasy to not bother other people on the water.

[REDSOXWSCHAMP]

that looks like some of the boats that were weighing in at the bowfishing tourney, they already had their fish to weigh-in, but couldn't move in the boat it was so full

[Old plug]

I have done that on clear water lake using corn soaked in Kool aid My friends father in law and he would smoke some and make fish paddies out of the others. He carried the recipe to his grave with him. They were very very good. He fed many people thru donations and church suppers down around Des Arc.

[Lvn2Fish]

Go put in at PB2, run to the gravios and back. Make sure it is on Saturday. Then come back down to the rock.... You will be thankful for this beautiful lake then. I hate all of the complaining that goes on here. This is an amazing lake. With or without the boat traffic.

[geomann74]

This boils down to a lack of courtesy by individuals, not an entire community. I have seen people with a lack of common courtesy in everything. A big portion of the bowfishing community does not condone dumping the fish on the banks, ramps, etc. The bowfishermen I know all take their fish to farms to use as fertilizer and some are eaten. I have also seen many places where bass fishermen, crappie fishermen, etc clean their fish and just throw what is left all over the place, that isn't any different.

Here is a thread on one of the bowfishing sites regarding fish dumping.

http://bow.fishingcountry.com/forums/showthread.php?2545-Police-each-other-(fish-dumping)