Okay as a warning to others NEVER post bowfishing pics in a regular fishing forum online. Not unless you are ready to have your blood pressure skyrocket and get into some really heated posts! I joined a local state forum that I previously had even done an article for on bowfishing. The responses I got from a pic I posted of a ray being shot were as arrogant and ignorant as they come. I posted in the hunting section of that same forum and got nothing but friendly responses from everyone. I learned a hard lesson tonight. We are Fish Hunters and the fishing world as a whole is still not ready to join forces with the rest of the outdoor world to protect the future of our outdoor sports. I am glad I am a BOWFISHING Guide and not strictly a FISHING Guide. In all my years of guiding I have never come across bad people. I hear nothing but complaints from fishing captains. I'll stick to the hunting world because obviously we are accepted there!
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I think a big part of it with regular fisherman is they've been completely brainwashed with the idea of catch and release. Now don't get me wrong I fully support C&R and do it most of the time, but I like to eat fish I catch too. On another fishing forum I've seen guys damn near crucified for saying they kept a fish for the frying pan (especially largemouth bass). These guys are so caught up with putting everything back they seem to have forgotten removing some fish actually helps the overall population. Even had a few that tried telling me bass ain't any good to eat... I beg to differ.
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Yeah I'm working on developing a similar system for hunting. Kill and Release. It's still pretty controversial but I think it'll catch on. :laugh:
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From what I've seen bass fisherman tend to be the worst, which sucks cause I love bass fishing too but they can get really full of themselves. Knew a guy that told me about a lake down in IL that the local bass guys had a bad habit of vandalizing rigs in the boat launch parking lot that were not owned by locals to try and keep people from coming and "Catching their fish"
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Making a sporting league or television show out of it is a horrible idea. But they are doing something similar in Africa with Rhino research. You can't hunt the rhino's anymore but they are offering to allow hunters to use a bow like you said to spot and stalk and then dart rhinos for the researchers instead of just using a dartgun.A few years back the hunting forum users had to threaten to boycot G5 and some other manufactors for awhile.
They were sponsoring a new sport where bucks would be hunted with low-poundage bows equipped tranquilizer darts, it was to be filmed in a place like Sampson's Ridge. The idea was to shoot the buck with the arrow/darts for a score, then the animal could come-to and thus be released to hunt another day. It was in a sense "Catch and Release" hunting and would be filmed like a competition-based reality show.
Thanks gooodness it never caught on and the bad flack from hunters helped stop the sponser funding. It was a step in the wrong direction, by taking the killing out of hunting
I think it was going to be called the "Pro Hunter Circut" or something to that nature. It was a Hollywood-based idea :cf:
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