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 Bow Fishing - The equipment works 
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Post Bow Fishing - The equipment works
Got two bow fishing trips completed. Not having much luck yet. The water in the White River is flooded, dirty, and covered in pollen.

I have not seen much gar activity, and when I do, it is for a split second. We did shoot a few turtles though.

I am surprised we have not seen any carp in the shallows yet. Perhaps the water is to cool.

Kind of funny how in all my years of bass fishing, I always had a disdain for all the carp and gar. Now that I want to shoot them, they are scarce.

I am pretty happy with how the lights work. Got them running off a small Wen inverter generator. It is pretty quiet and hardly uses much gas. Right now I am running with the trolling motor. Once it gets good, I may have to either get a second battery, or rig another electric line and run the charger simultaneously.


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Post Re: Bow Fishing - The equipment works
Very nice looking set up. AWESOME looks like a lot of fun. I am hoping I get my gator tag this year, I am going to start scouting just in case.


Thu May 10, 2018 3:33 am
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Post Re: Bow Fishing - The equipment works
Have you forgot to push the button on your reel yet?


Thu May 10, 2018 4:07 am
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Post Re: Bow Fishing - The equipment works
got any more pics of how your troller folds up through your light rail?


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Looks good!


Thu May 10, 2018 11:05 am
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Post Re: Bow Fishing - The equipment works
I have not forgot to push the button on the reel yet, but did wind up the line in the trolling motor once.

What I do with the trolling motor is pull it up to its highest position and ride that way when on the trailer or when running the mud motor. Once I get to where I will fish, I just unscrew, drop down to the depth I want, and run. The trolling motor shaft sticks up a bit high, but so far it works.

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Nice looking setup!!

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What lights do you have?

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Post Re: Bow Fishing - The equipment works
You should start having carp run into the shallows soon. You're both of me a little bit and this past week we've had a pretty heavy shift in fish moving from the main river to the back waters. Carp were thick today, and bass have been moving into the shallows as well.


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Post Re: Bow Fishing - The equipment works
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075T ... UTF8&psc=1

I used ten Wosen 50W LED Flood Light, Waterproof IP66, 4000lm, 5000K Daylight White, Super Bright Outdoor LED Flood Lights

I have yellow film over the lights and power with a Wen 2000 inverter generator.

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Post Re: Bow Fishing - The equipment works
Everything I read said that the LED white light has to much of a tendency to reflect off the top of water, especially in tinted or muddier water. They say the yellow light penetrates more down into the water

It is pretty muddy where I am.

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Shot some pigs a couple weeks ago. Got on some decent in the shallows Friday but nothing like fishing these plus 50lb

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I bet there’s some happy colored folks around there!

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Post Re: Bow Fishing - The equipment works
I ordered the yellow film from Amazon.

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https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00CDG9D ... ref=plSrch

This is the film I used

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Thanks!

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