is this ok?

[MoCarp]

I was sent this by a friend, this fish photographer caught what Bfers do all the time, shoot and release the fish they have shot to die ...wasted...I get sent pics all the time of fish caught or found floating

[MoCarp]

 

There is a great deal of conflict on Musky waters...this issue isn't going away any time soon

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The one proposal not approved would have prohibited the use of archery equipment for taking nongame fishes on a section of Lake James (F15). The proposal was designed to protect muskellunge during the spawning season, said Doug Besler, mountain region fisheries supervisor.

 

“There is a growing interest on Lake James in bowfishing, the shooting of non-game fish,” Besler said. “At the upper end of Lake James there is a large population of muskie (a game fish). Bow anglers target carp and other nongame fish, but there have been muskie that were mistaken.”

Besler said instead of making a rule change, the commission is taking an intermediate step by working with the muskie club and the bowfishing club to develop signage at the lake.

 

 

 

https://www.citizen-times.com/…/wildlife-commissi…/98196272/

[awhuber]

[Al Agnew]

I know, we've hashed it over before.  But I gotta say I have a big problem with shooting fish of any species with bow and arrow or speargun simply to discard them. The only time I think that's okay is if the fish is an invasive species that is directly harming the ecology of the waters it's in, and it's been biologically shown that thinning the population of that fish will help significantly.  It's the same with so-called varmint shooting, such as prairie dogs.  I just don't like the idea, as MoCarp said, of using live animals for nothing but target practice...that's what they make targets for.  And what REALLY bothers me is glorifying the practice.  I've seen those t shirts that say something like "happiness is a fine red mist" with a picture of a prairie dog with crosshairs on it.  

I find that as I get older, I have more and more problem with killing critters, unless I've got a REALLY good reason to do so.  Not that I'm turning anti-hunting or something.  I still think too many people care too much about individual animals and not enough about species and ecosystems, and common species or species that need thinning because we've messed up their ecology too much already are perfectly okay to kill, as far as I'm concerned.  But use them after you kill them. 

[fishinwrench]

3 of my die-hard bowfishing customers have simultaneously gotten out of it. Have sold, or are selling their rigs and are into something else now.   As if it was just a passing fad.   

[slothman]

12 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

and are into something else now.   As if it was just a passing fad.   

I can’t say I’m surprised by that at all. 

[oneshot]

I've went from Bowfishing to using Rod and Reel but getting away from Carp. More Catfish, Bluegill and Suckers.

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