The best after work mental re-set that I have found.
A fishing bow usually has no sight, it is intuitive shooting.
Some days I can’t miss and other days I can’t hit them, but I still head home smiling.
It’s a great sport for all ages.
I always have a spare bow in the ute for anyone I meet that wants to have a crack.
Here in the east Waikato we mostly chase koi carp and mullet.
Our rivers, streams and canals are filled with carp ( an introduced pest fish).
You do not require a license but there are rules to abide to (refer doc website).
Not always visible unless they are near the surface, as they churn the bottom and side up with their feeding habits.
Flooded paddocks are great fun to bow fish in. The water is usually quite clear and the fish are visible from a good distance away.
It is exciting watching a big orange submarine heading towards you while you are standing in the slow moving flood water halfway up your thighs.
Carp and mullet have great eye sight. They can pick you out, while standing still next to a tree or bush and they will turn away or dive deeper and swim past you then pop up near the surface again once out of bow range.
Most of the fish I harvest are put in the freezer and given to anyone who wants to use them for bait. Snapper seem to readily take the carp bait.
My next mission is to use my burly net and fill it with mashed carp fillets and drop it off the rocks up the Thames coast to bow fish for some snapper.
Give it a go, it’s addictive.
