I had never tried bowfishing before, so I picked up a bowfishing arrow, and spooled an old 4000 shimano with 80lb braid which I then jerry rigged on my little brother's old bow by taping it to the stabilizer. I brought the bow in the kayak with me on the river while I bass fished. There was a bit of a learning curve but I figured it out an shot a monster. It weighed just under 11 and a half pounds. Fun stuff, I'll be trying it again depending on how well this fish does as crab cakes. 

It is fun as crap stickin one like that. I've only done it a few times and had a blast.

Wow wicked set of choppers.

Let us know how it tastes

 

Awesome catch!

Consensus: Flavor is great, but the texture is very strange. Some sort of membrane in between each "flake" of meat that is sort of spongy making the meat a little chewy. I will try a small one next to see if it's any good.

3 minutes ago, everythingthatswims said:

Consensus: Flavor is great, but the texture is very strange. Some sort of membrane in between each "flake" of meat that is sort of spongy making the meat a little chewy. I will try a small one next to see if it's any good.

I would have released it rather than tempt the texture gods, LOL!!!

I'm just not that into fish for other than the sport of fishing....

2 hours ago, Darren. said:

I would have released it rather than tempt the texture gods, LOL!!!

I'm just not that into fish for other than the sport of fishing....

For some reason they do not revive well when caught via arrow. I'm a big fan of eating fish (no bass though), the main reason I set this up and went bowfishing is to learn a little bit so we can load a cooler with some of the darn huge spadefish at a wreck we fish off of NC that just mosey around the boat and don't eat anything ever.

Be careful, gar roe is poisonous and it's the time of year they should be spawning in your area most likely. 

I know lots of folks that love eating gar, most use a bandsaw to clean them. I've shot a couple monsters around here but never put them on a scale. So many Asian Carp anymore that it's about all I shoot if I go on the river. 

11 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Be careful, gar roe is poisonous and it's the time of year they should be spawning in your area most likely. 

I know lots of folks that love eating gar, most use a bandsaw to clean them. I've shot a couple monsters around here but never put them on a scale. So many Asian Carp anymore that it's about all I shoot if I go on the river. 

Yeah I made sure to stay out of the rib cage

Last time I fished a creek on some public land there were so many Gar in the shallow parts you could just reach down and grab them... If you don't mind the teeth!

Awesome gar and even more awesome shirt!!!  I seriously just went to UA Website to order one of the longsleeves.  Keep up the bowfishing.

Gar are awesome to catch but near impossible to hook and they are really good at taking bait off your hook without you knowing