Arkansas bowfishing study

[fishinwrench]

3 hours ago, MoCarp said:

Are all BFers bad? Absolutely not,,,neither was all the remote control boat anglers that targeted the ginormous blue cats below Truman dam, most caught and released or selectively harvested.

 

few caught and trafficed catfish for profit, selling fish in Kc

If those fish are valuable then BUY THEM.  

I'm sure the BFers would sell them for a reasonable price while they are still fresh.   That would be better than continuously finding piles of dead & rotting carp and gar. 

The bottom line IMO is that if it is possible on any given body of water, to go out in one night and kill 1000 of them with a goddam bow & arrow.....then they need to be thinned out anyway.    

 I mean, don't ya think?

🤷‍♂️. By continuing to claim all these inflated/exaggerated kill rates.....you are effectively pissing on your own argument. 

[BilletHead]

1 hour ago, fishinwrench said:

If those fish are valuable then BUY THEM.  

I'm sure the BFers would sell them for a reasonable price while they are still fresh.   That would be better than continuously finding piles of dead & rotting carp and gar. 

The bottom line IMO is that if it is possible on any given body of water, to go out in one night and kill 1000 of them with a goddam bow & arrow.....then they need to be thinned out anyway.    

 I mean, don't ya think?

🤷‍♂️. By continuing to claim all these inflated/exaggerated kill rates.....you are effectively pissing on your own argument. 

             Well I for one have not been anywhere that there is a lack of common carp.   Dig you a can of river worms and go to any drainage on the upper end of the Osage river arm of Truman and wear yourself out. Be sire and wear camo so no one finds your honey hole.  May be different in other places of the state.  Shot some once in a backwater where a wheat field ready to harvest went under. The carp were so fat almost grotesque looking. So you all know I disposed of them properly. Out in a field where they would be disked under for fertilizer.  

    For the argument that rough fish were as good as other fish we would be stocking them because everyone would be keeping them. Agenda pushing as bad as the political agenda.  We should of built a fence to keep carp out of the country

[fishinwrench]

Yeah, people always like to talk about how delicious carp are......but when you ask them when was the last time they cleaned a mess of them, it always takes them awhile to remember.    And odds are that their next carp trip isn't penciled in anywhere on their calendar either. 😅

[MoCarp]

I’m not the one claiming the numbers. This pic comes from a bfer group 1503 in one night, fish. Packed in because of spawning 

I am sure  if allowed they could do the same with salmon 

didn’t they think we had plenty of salmon too? Concentrations of spawning fish make it Look like more populations 

[MoCarp]

9 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

Yeah, people always like to talk about how delicious carp are......but when you ask them when was the last time they cleaned a mess of them, it always takes them awhile to remember.    And odds are that their next carp trip isn't penciled in anywhere on their calendar either. 😅

Russian anglers hit the pothole for carp all the time…must be a cultural thing

[fishinwrench]

5 hours ago, MoCarp said:

I’m not the one claiming the numbers. This pic comes from a bfer group 1503 in one night, fish. Packed in because of spawning 

I am sure  if allowed they could do the same with salmon 

didn’t they think we had plenty of salmon too? Concentrations of spawning fish make it Look like more populations 

Dude that pic wasn't taken during carp spawning time.    The trees are full of leaves and have dropped their buds long ago, and the grass has already grown high and turned brown from summer heat.  

GTFOH !    Carp spawn about the same time the White bass do, typically dogwoods and redbuds still in bloom and other trees budding but not anywhere near full of leaves.

Do you even know WTF you are talking about?     No..... you don't.

[MoCarp]

36 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

Dude that pic wasn't taken during carp spawning time.    The trees are full of leaves and have dropped their buds long ago, and the grass has already grown high and turned brown from summer heat.  

GTFOH !    Carp spawn about the same time the White bass do, typically dogwoods and redbuds still in bloom and other trees budding but not anywhere near full of leaves.

Do you even know WTF you are talking about?     No..... you don't.

That pic wasn’t taken in Missouri, Wisconsin I believe, the details of why they shot so many in one go they didn’t  share….could they be fibbing about the particulars, it’s possible…do I think every bfer shoots that many? Most assuredly not…

if you think I’m bad these guys are hard core animal rights

 

[MoCarp]