Ohio bow fishing carp record

[OhioFisherman]

http://www.sanduskyregister.com/article/4274451

[fishindevil]

Holy carp is right !!!!!! OMG !!!!!!!!!!! That thing really is a tank ...!!!!!!!!!!! That's insane.... Imagine that fish on a rod & reel !!! Lol. Even the 47 lb he got is massive ........ Congrats to him 2 state records ....

[steelhunter]

Holy crap thats a big fish

[boombap]

That's a massive crap! Carp! Whatever.

 

I have never tried bowfishing and I'm not much of a hunter either (killing sparrows with my bb gun as a kid doesn't count) but I don't know how I feel about it.

[OhioFisherman]

I took my ex son in law and one of my best friends to Sandusky Bay for some early season smallie action years ago before they had a closed season on them.

 

My son in law caught the first carp, on a tube, just guessing around 25 pounds. I got the second, on a tube around 35 pounds. My best friend's came last, also on a tube and I am betting it was close to 60 pounds, it dwarfed ours and looked bigger than the one in the link by a good deal.

 

Early season and cold water, they are like hooking a freight train. You set the hook, line starts peeling off your spool and you follow them with the boat until they wear out or break light line.

 

Not really a carp fan, but it is different after catching 1 - 3 pound smallies all day. Watching the commercial carp and buffalo netters in some areas was interesting too. They would string a net that seem to be a couple of hundred yards long out from shore by boat and bring it back to shore. Then wrestle carp into a slatted side barge about 8x16 until water was washing over the sides.

 

Those guys got some real hogs.

Edited July 13, 2013 by OhioFisherman

[misfish]

That's a massive crap! Carp! Whatever.

 

I have never tried bowfishing and I'm not much of a hunter either (killing sparrows with my bb gun as a kid doesn't count) but I don't know how I feel about it.

 

If they ever "trap shoot flying carp" Im in. HAHA

That would be so cool.

Bow hunting carp is a sport to some,and I respect that. Their great fertilizer fish anyways.LOL