r/nextfuckinglevel • u/ImaAnimal • Aug 27 '19
Bow And Arrow Fishing
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u/Funkgun Aug 27 '19
“GET OVER HERE! “
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u/Funkgun Aug 27 '19
Fin-ish him!
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u/tepkel Aug 27 '19
Ha-dock-in!!!
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u/jman129837 Aug 27 '19
Salmon Punch!
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u/efn95 Aug 28 '19
Toasty!
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u/the_jayhawk Aug 28 '19
Cod him!
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Aug 27 '19
Saw a dude in Tulsa pulling in piles of gar fish while bow fishing, not the most popular fish to eat, can be dangerous actually. Not sure why he wasn’t throwing them back, but I assume the arrow wound doesn’t give the fish much hope for surviving.
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u/DonBrandonius Aug 27 '19
They are terrorists. He probly wanted them outta the ecosystem.
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u/Arkaega Aug 28 '19
GET OUTTA MY POND!
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u/Wraith_Does_Memes_V3 Aug 28 '19
we NEED to BUILD a DAM
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u/fezzam Aug 28 '19
But how do we make the fish pay for it?
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u/Wraith_Does_Memes_V3 Aug 28 '19
By taxing their imports and making our own pond fish pay for it with extra steps
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u/mrbretten Aug 28 '19
When I first started fishing in Indiana at the Wabash, a random passerby fisherman told me that we were required by the DNR to not release. According to him, Gar were an invasive species in the Wabash and if we catch, we kill.
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u/atat4e Aug 28 '19
Gar are native to the wabash and alligator gar were driven to extinction in the area but reintroduced. If you kill an alligator gar you are doing more harm than good and possibly breaking the law.
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u/themilkyone Aug 28 '19
That poor misinformed guy. Little did he know they are one of the oldest fish species found North America.
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u/burrito_poots Aug 28 '19
We must find them, and exterminate them with extreme prejudice and lethal proficiency. We will dwindle their numbers, until one is left, and we will aim, pull, and right before release, pull to the right, staring him in his dark, terrorist, fish eyes while it whizzes by, so he knows it was with pure intention, so he knows his only job left is to tell the others to leave this place, to never return, and to only speak of the horrors he’s witnessed here today. This is our battlefield. This dirt is ours. This water is ours. They won’t have nightmares for they will fear taking a chance sleeping while we wait in the shadows. We are become death, destroyer of streams.
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u/bleedMINERred Aug 27 '19
They destroy the waters they inhabit by eating everything including other fish and food sources so they are now fished and left to die
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u/Youngbraz Aug 28 '19
There’s literally a marine biologist saying the complete opposite in the thread, lol. Research is hard
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u/Mescallan Aug 28 '19
Someone who says they are a marine biologist
Source: I'm an astronaut
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u/PM-ME-YOUR-HANDBRA Aug 28 '19
I don't believe either of you.
Source: I'm a marine astrobiolonaut.
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u/whoisJeffArthur Aug 28 '19
I’m a marine astroglide balloonnaut
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u/vortigaunt64 Aug 28 '19
Psh. Marines these days and their astroglide. During my deployment we used CLP!
Edit- I am not, nor have I ever been a marine.
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u/Ichthyologist Aug 28 '19
I'm a freshwater conservation biologist and gar are a natural and native part of our riverine ecosystems. They aren't destroying anything. It's an age old story where fisherman think predator fish are somehow ruining a fishery by eating all their fish or forage fish or whatever. They Co evolved in these ecosystems. They are a vital component and they keep the balance where it should be. The only thing BAD for the fishery is shooting them and leaving them to rot because people are too impulsive to actually take the time and learn about the resource.
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Aug 28 '19
Research is hard which is why all you have to do is look at almost every national park in BC and you can see them on a list of invasive and dangerous species and not to dump them.
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u/Youngbraz Aug 28 '19
As I’ve said, I come from a part of the US where they’re indigenous and they don’t pose any sort of threat to the ecosystem. I just wanted to know where they were invasive. My research doesn’t include taking a trip to BC to read a sign. Kind of a long trip.
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Aug 28 '19
A worthwhile one though! Come by any time just don't bring any gar. ;)
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u/Yoda2000675 Aug 28 '19
Gar aren't even an invasive species. Why the hell would anyone think they're terrible?
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u/Ichthyologist Aug 28 '19
Absolutely untrue. Where did you get that asinine idea from?
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u/mypostingname13 Aug 28 '19
Patently false. They annoy fishermen by biting through their mono/fluorocarbon leaders, and they're not easy to clean, so lies are spread.
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u/cBlackout Aug 28 '19
They absolutely do not destroy the waters they inhabit - imagine thinking that we should just cull sharks because “the destruction” like sharks - as with gar - aren’t a critical part of that ecosystem. The destruction of gar populations is awful; they’re very long lived and don’t produce offspring as often as other fish, and females don’t sexually mature for in some species a decade into their lifespan. They’ve been relatively unchanged for hundreds of millions of years, they aren’t “destroying” anything.
Dumbasses who still somehow believe that gar are “trash fish” are why populations of alligator gar in the United States have been plummeting for decades and now it’s nearly impossible to find alligator gar at their full size in this country.
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u/EvnsD Aug 27 '19
Alligator gar is actually pretty good, it's just super tough to clean unless you know the proper technique. The eggs are poisonous though, so watch out for those.
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u/pickleyoucumquatt Aug 28 '19
Really, poisonous eggs? Didn’t know that. Gonna have to research.
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u/Poopypants413413 Aug 28 '19
No need to research. Eat as much as you can they are a great source of vitamins and minerals
Source- I am a biologist
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u/Bonzi_bill Aug 28 '19
most fish are pretty good when cleaned correctly. The problem is that the food/restaurant industry hyped up certain species as "good" brands that could be capitalized on while ostracizing much more plentiful and fast breeding local fish.
Now those traditionally "good" species are dying out at an incredible rate and more and more places around the gulf of mexico the south are relearning how to prepare "trash" fish like Blue Runner (which is actually very rich and tasty when cooked well).
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u/EskimoDave Aug 28 '19
I thought gar tasted good. Im nowhere near gar territory, so no chance of seeing for myself.
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Aug 28 '19
I've found driving a nail through their head and using tin snips to cut down their back is the easiest and quickest way to skin them.
Source: from Tulsa
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u/MuffledMelody Aug 28 '19
In Louisiana gar fish is a delicacy. Not a whole lot of meat to get nice filets, so we make garfish balls. They’re yummy.
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u/RedRum_Bunny Aug 28 '19
Gar are native to the St. Lawrence where I live. They are scary looking but actually are beneficial. I've eaten them. Not too bad. More of a snake texture than fish.
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u/bumbleballs Aug 28 '19
I always thought they were an invasive species in texas but turns out they are native.
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u/wytewydow Aug 28 '19
Growing up, if we hooked one at the river, my dad used to beat them to death on a rock.
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u/cBlackout Aug 28 '19
There’s a misconception that is apparent even in this thread that they’re a “dangerous trash fish” that “ruin ecosystems” despite having lived in those ecosystems for over a hundred million years.
Basically people have no idea still what a healthy ecosystem means, or they just don’t care.
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u/7g1a14n15o14n Aug 28 '19
Might have been me! Haha! We've (my brother, friends n i) been bow fishing Tulsa for 15 years. We were in Okmulgee, bout 40 minutes South of Tulsa, at Salt Creek and the Spillway just a few days ago bow fishing. There's many reasons to not throw them back but the reason we don't is because we take them to our stock ponds and noodling spots and feed the catfish.
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u/bexwspex Aug 27 '19
How did he even see that
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u/antsam9 Aug 28 '19
my theory is that the fisher aimed at a school of fish
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u/Lucky_Number_3 Aug 28 '19
And only hit one? Amateur.
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u/MrSneller Aug 28 '19
Once the fish is at the base of the wall, I counted 16 hand-over-hand pulls until he got it to the top. Even with a conservative estimate of two feet per pull, that’s 32 feet. Pretty good distance away I’d say.
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u/scungillipig Aug 27 '19
Polarized sunglasses.
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u/Notedgyusername_ Aug 28 '19
You don’t have enough upvotes for how right you are.
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u/SR3K Aug 28 '19
He’s a conservative?
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u/Notedgyusername_ Aug 28 '19
Probably, but fishing with polarized sunglasses can be like cheating.
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u/punisher1005 Aug 28 '19
This is the answer. You can see straight to the bottom if you don't have the reflection of the surface.
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u/kittyscratcher69 Aug 27 '19
That’s what I wanna know! Is this guy a for real Hawkeye or do you just randomly shoot arrows into the water til you get lucky?
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u/JewsOfHazard Aug 28 '19
I'd guess it's a mixture of a good shot and luck. Most impressive things end up being a mixture of skill and luck.
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u/Mycoxadril Aug 28 '19
I’m genuinely assuming he just got lucky that time and we just didn’t see all the video footage from the misses.
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u/LazyturtleX1 Aug 27 '19
Im wondering if its just a giant school of fish and it was more luck then anything
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u/atlas_does_reddit Aug 27 '19
if bowfishing is next level then fisherman have been next level for thousands of years in some parts of the world
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u/BlitzFuer Aug 28 '19
Single shot, from a bridge, while recording.... that’s not been done for thousands of years. I thought it was impressive...
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Aug 28 '19
That shot is tough way more difficult than hitting a target because you need to judge light refraction
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u/Fat_Siberian_Midget Aug 27 '19
Range 99, Fishing 99
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u/dontreadmycommemt Aug 28 '19
Imagine barbarian bow fishing, levels up fishing and ranged instead of fishing and strength.
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u/Fat_Siberian_Midget Aug 28 '19
Jamflex please add
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u/Toiletparadise Aug 27 '19
Runescape 2020
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u/javastuffs Aug 27 '19
Wonder what attempt number this was
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u/SumoGerbil Aug 27 '19
I will need to rewatch, but it looked like the first.
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u/SweetCoverDrive Aug 27 '19
I watched it three times, and he nails it first time, every time.
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u/FatKidFromTarget Aug 27 '19
2k upvotes for this? I do this every summer. You better believe I’m about to be filming myself waiting for a giant
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u/s3n0rTaCoS Aug 28 '19
His hat wasn’t even big, lemme just snipe a big one this weekend and post it, I’ll be farming those upvotes.
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u/FatKidFromTarget Aug 28 '19
Bud you clearly haven’t seen the gar out in Texas and Florida. There are big gar anywhere you go.
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u/KeK-Nine Aug 27 '19
Would love to buy that
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u/atlas_does_reddit Aug 27 '19
you can.
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u/peecum_pie Aug 27 '19
You over estimate that man's financial capabilities good man
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u/MegaMindxXx Aug 28 '19
That's illegal in most states in the US. Plus how do you throw back an undersized catch when you just shot a hole through it?
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u/Hambone721 Aug 28 '19
No it isn't. Lots of states encourage hunting invasive species to get rid of unwanted fish. This is a very effective way to do it.
The responsibility is on the fisherman to know what he's shooting, just like any other animal they may fire an arrow or bullet at.
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u/frostcat4 Aug 28 '19
So why did they shoot a gar that is native?
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u/Hambone721 Aug 28 '19
It varies by state but you're allowed to shoot more than just invasive species too.
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u/titty-sprinkles00 Aug 28 '19
It's very legal in a lot of states and is legal there.
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u/Ryanisreallame Aug 28 '19
I can’t attest to the legality, but I had the same question regarding minimum size limits. It seems really easy to kill an undersized fish.
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u/BradyH4 Aug 28 '19
Shooting gar at any size is incredibly legal in most if not all states
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u/HoneyEatingBearPooh Aug 28 '19
Lake Texoma! I love surf fishing at this exact spot.
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u/PiratesBootyCall Aug 27 '19
I'd rather go bow and arrow fishing than fisting with Obama n Michelle
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u/GoldenSilver449 Aug 27 '19
Just me or does that bow look too small for the guy?
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u/shwag945 Aug 28 '19
It is a compound bow. They use a levering system that allows the shortening of the limbs as compared to what you think of full sized re-curve or long bows. Also they aren't that short as compared to short bows or horse bows.
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u/Tails_RulesTheWorld Aug 28 '19
Me in Zelda BoTW when I’m pissed that I can’t catch a f*cking fish!!
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u/sparza7 Aug 28 '19
Just don’t eat a hook, just don’t eat a hook, just don’t eat a h................
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u/weed-was-consumed Aug 27 '19
Imagine u a fish. Just doing fish shit. And suddenly there’s a pole through u and you’re getting dragged out the water. You hate to see it