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Hi,
Watched a few videos and figured I would give it a try. Have a bow fishing rig, but no idea where to go or even if this is the right time of year? (maybe its a spring thing?)
Can easily go to Deer Creek or Utah Lake Thursday or Friday morning. Have a ranger boat, so its not a true bowfishing setup, but I can get into fairly shallow water.
Any advice????
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panama-- Just got back from my night shift at Lincoln Beach. Got there at 2 a.m. and fished until 9:00. Beautiful night... water was glassy calm. Good cat fishin' too. Caught 15 or so but nothing longer than about 26 inches.
The carp were cruising all over the place and I had my bow with me so I had a go at 'em. They are spooky and you have to sneak up on 'em for a shot but they are sure some big ol' brutes. I brought five of them home for cat bait and I'ver probably got enough to last into next year.
Anyways, I just watched for them to surface slurp and cruise with their backs out of the water and then put a sneak on 'em using my electric. I missed 10 for every one I got... (right handed using a left hand bow) so that is my excuse for missing so many. My usual crew was not with me today cuz they started football practice. They would have had a blast today. I'll be there again tomorrow and probably Friday too. Just swing around to the south from the launch channel and you're into 'em. Fun. Good luck if you get out that way.
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So, assuming I get lucky and get a few, what do you do with them besides kill them? Can you dispose of them in the lake (for the catfish)? or do you take them to the dump? Honestly no idea?
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They make good catfish bait. Or pop their air bladder and sink them in the lake.
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Thanks, you beat me to it, I was reading the 2014 Utah Fishing Guide and it says I can dispose of them in the water - assuming air bladder and belly cut, but couldn't find that specifically. Kind of hard to find in it.
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I've been out to the Lindon marina a few times lately and if you just go out and hook right and stay parallel to the shore there is usually a sea of carp on the surface in the morning. They get right up against your boat too. Make for easy shots. Drag a couple pieces of cut bait behind you for some fun tugs as well.
Been doing pretty decent out there lately. Just a heads up though, to the left towards the "bubble up" pipe it gets extremely shallow. We bottomed out from several hundred yards off the shore last time we were out. Took some serious effort, water to the chest and two guys overboard pushing to turn us into a boat again. We were surprised that there was no flags or warnings posted as far as we could see.
I'd put 2-3 inch by 1-2 inch slice of bloody carp meat with a 2/0 circle hook up against any rig I've seen for the cats in UL. (admittedly because I can never seem to find Master Tube Dudes legendary errrr ...red sided, blue eyed, silver backed, buck toothed minnows??" ... something like that)
If you are going to use it as cut bait I'd really suggest not gilling it/ quickly field stripping it too soon.
You can really notice a difference in a piece of red bloody carp meat from a nice filleted cleaned piece worthy of human consumption. The cats seem to prefer the gamier meat too. Just my opinion.
Also I'm not entirely sure the legality of it but a farmer near my home loves to use chunked up carp meat as fertilizer. He seems to swear by it.
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