Targeting Invasives and bowfishing?

[gnappi]

Where snakehead have been introduced I've seen bass (and peacock bass) populations go down radically where they once thrived... small neighborhood canals and lakes connected to them.

 

One day I met a fellow at a fave bass fishing spot who said he went night bow fishing for snakehead there. Coincidentally I had noticed that the bass population was rebounding and I could again see small bass in the shallows... exactly where snakehead inhabit. Hmmm...

 

So I started switching my methods, and more towards larger bass and snakeheads with frog lures. Not only did larger bass respond to the frogs I started catching snakeheads, and places I took snake heads from (and ate, they're quite good) showed small bass in the shallows within a few months of taking the snakeheads.

 

Now with colder (relatively speaking) waters in south Florida snakehead fishing mostly turns off and they stick to the warmer shallow waters, perfect targets for a bow and line. I bought a bow setup for "fishing" in a pawn shop and I'm kitting myself up to take them as well as tilapia and clown knife fish, and I'm waiting for a comprehensive list of invasive species from FWC that may be legally taken by bow.  

 

Has anyone else tried bowfishing for invasive species?

 

 

 

[MN Fisher]

23 minutes ago, gnappi said:

Has anyone else tried bowfishing for invasive species?

When I was a kid, a friend and I bowfished carp. They were considered 'trash fish' in our local lake, and the city paid us $.10/pound to remove them...we just had to show a picture of our taken fish and they gave an estimate of the weight. One summer we split $50 between us. For a pair of 10 year olds in 1970, that was a lot of money.

[Bluebasser86]

I've shot a lot of silver and bighead carp out of the river here. Not even a drop in the bucket, but it sure is fun, especially shooting them out of the air.

[gnappi]

I dialed in my new bow yesterday shooting at the opposite bank of the freshwater canal at my GF's house. Snakehead and Tilapia beware ?

 

 

[Marco VS]

Have bowfished for carp recently, surprisingly it's only just become legal where i am. 
Had to learn to aim a bit below the fish because of the refraction

[gim]

While I don't bow fish, it seems to be slowly gaining some popularity here.  We have asian carp in many of our lakes and rivers, and they are detrimental so I say remove as many as possible.