Flooded Fields bowfishing opener

As most of you know Bowfishing opener is long gone and over, it was May 1st. We went on the Mississippi river in Clearwater and expected to do very well, Well to our surprise it was terrible.... i say this because we were out till 4am in the freezing cold(32 degrees) with gusts of wind up to 30 mph. We went into the shallows where we expected to see alot of carp. And to our surprise got only about 20 shots off each the entire night! We got a total of 5 carp on out boat with the biggest weighing only 12lbs. The river was very high that night and we were mostly in flooded fields and parks or up in the low ground with the trees. I expected a good night and all i got was sick for 4 days. Lets get this weather warmed up Minnesota.

Bowfishing opener!

Bow fishing is 5 days 10 hours and 25 minutes away! What are you gonna do? Well prolly nothing but at midnight on April 30th-May 1st I will be on the river shootin carp, that is however a sunday so it will be hard not to sleep. Hopefully we limit out on that night/morning. I will post pictures of how many we get.

Arrows

This weekend I picked up two blank arrows, they only come with a nock and are tapped and drilled with no slides or tips. They are quite simple to set up and a cheaper solution. They are AMS arrows.

New Reel



Retriever Pro reel

 I got the brand new retriever pro bowfishing reel made by AMS. It was a spendy item(about 80) from fleet farm where it was the cheapest out of everywhere i checked. This new reel comes with a arrow holder and has a grip to slip over the reel trigger so the line wont wrap around it. It also has new orange 200lb braided line. I put it on my bow this weekend and had to strip it all down, nothing to exciting about it though. Now just need arrows and tims and rest.

Video Ideas

For my video i plan to take it of me and my buddies on opener which is may 1st but we cant anymore because of  the rules of this class say the video needs to be in by the 13th of this month. So now the plan is to take a video of my setup and maybe some practice shots into the river, or i could just illegally bowfish which is perfectly fine with me because ill just tell them its for a class in school. Let me know what you think i should do.

Poll Question

Answer my poll question! I wanna know what kinda bow YOU have, if you dont have one then name one a relative has or the one you have heard of the most!

This video is taken in a river in Illinois, this year i will have the chance to go there and bowfish this area because i have relatives that live very close to this area, the fish are known to jumb out of the water because of vibrations the boat makes.