Tidbits: Kayak Bowfishing - Gear Setup and Carp Bowfishing on Lake Champlain

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Victor S. - 6 years ago

D.B.
Very cool set up I am hooked. Thanks
P.S.
Great idea on the trade off for Chinese food too.God Bless

Daniel Crisafi - 6 years ago

You have the sickest setup!!!

Damon Bungard - 6 years ago

thanks!

Steve Krewson - 6 years ago

Um...just as I recently convinced myself that they really didn't use stray cats and dogs...you go and throw a damn carp into the equation. Thanks alot!

River Monsters & Demon Dragons - 6 years ago

Awesome Video !!! I just subscribed to your channel - Keep up the great work and check out my channel Thanks

Eduardo Sousa Benedetti - 7 years ago

to boni

Felipe Dominguez - 7 years ago

Do you have any video of the light at night?

Nick Horton - 7 years ago

This is what I want to get into.

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felicia delagato - 7 years ago

your the guys that left all those fish to rot on the bank... what a waste

Vladimir Putin - 7 years ago

Sorry 6:37

Vladimir Putin - 7 years ago

felicia delagato 3:37

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jhair esteban moreno pinzon - 7 years ago

corta algunos momentos

CAMBO LIFESTYLE - 7 years ago

Lovely!

Riverbendlongbows Outdoors - 7 years ago

Good times

Dewey Cash - 7 years ago

I checked out your channel and subbed. Please check my channel and sub back. My channel has Hunting, fishing and family videos. Thanks

Mileidis Paola Escorcia Cadena - 7 years ago

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Brandon Rothauge - 7 years ago

Fucking awesome, Damon!Thanks for posting this!I'll be setting up my very own bowfishing rig using a Bear bow this Spring!If you ever want to come out to Northern Minnesota, you have a place to stay less than a mile from Birch Lake!
Brandon

TWISTED NRG - 7 years ago

Nice setup you have there. Quick question, what are the benefits of using a recurve over a compound bow for fishing besides being able to adjust your draw weight on each shot? Cheers

Damon Bungard - 6 years ago

Recurves are great for the simplicity factor when so much slime, muck and water is involved in bow fishing. No cams or anything else to get jammed up from weeds and mud and everything else you encounter. Bowfishing is messy. They're also great for the quick, instinctive snap shooting style bow fishing leans to

Tanner Fulkerson - 7 years ago

people say oh your killing carp when they are spawning they will never get big for other people to catch well just to let all the animal activists out there watching these videos there are thousands of carp in our water ways that were introduced illegally and they have over populated so much that they are all the way out in the great lakes not in the swamp or bays. we're not managing population anymore it's a sport you will never get rid of the carp from our water ways

Full Throttle Outdoors - 7 years ago

Awesome video! I just subscribed to your channel. Check out my channel I will be uploading weekly kayak fishing videos. Also going to start bow fishing also. Keep up the good work.

Bugatti 12 - 7 years ago

hey, can you tell me how much cost beginner bows for fishing?

Nate Spencer - 7 years ago

Da Maestro 99 $99 for a reel $25 for a reel mount and your bow pretty much.

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Connor Broughfman - 7 years ago

nice bow

Outdoorsman 35 - 7 years ago

How much weight is on your bow

FOX Silent - 8 years ago

I here in Brazil fishing bow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhYqg_ovqHE

Luis Armando - 8 years ago

And then blz 'm from Brazil want to buy a bow for fishing u can tell me how many pounds the ideal bow for me to buy and how much and the price of it there?

mike Wilson - 8 years ago

Bow-fishing Is not Sporting!!! I rod fish, catch & release a live, to catch another day. You guys kill the carp & that's it. I see carp floating dead on the lakes all the time, where you have just killed them & left them. Here in NC, there has not been a state record fish caught in 30 years. They don't have a chance to grow old & large. There is no season on Carp fishing or bow-fishing here. So bow-fishermen blind them with lights & slather them when they are spawning. For no reason but fun. While the Bow Industries & Sporting Goods Stores lobby to keep the laws this way. So they're getting rich at the cost of our wildlife. If this continues, they will go the way of the Buffalo. There are even bow-fishing torments where they bet on who will kill most. After the check in, to see who won they just dump them in the lake. I have seen this in the Wildlife Access areas several times. Carp just dumped in public areas dead, rotting & smelling bad. Think about it the next time you kill something, JUST FOR FUN.

Steve Krewson - 6 years ago

Holy shit, Is this guy for real? Wow! I can remember as a kid fishing with my dad, he would always throw carp and gar way up in the weeds and tell me to never throw them back in the water. Those things would flop around for hours! Never felt bad about it once. Then there's this guy, crying in his Captain Crunch!

My Self - 6 years ago

mike Wilson Saving your Bass, one carp at a time.

rpb1961 - 6 years ago

Carp are like coyotes. They don't belong in Nc. Kill them all!

Sam Guy - 7 years ago

Please.
Piss off

My Self - 7 years ago

Bowfishing. Saving your bass, one carp at a time.

Joseph Fields - 7 years ago

Carp are not native to the States. They muck up the water, the only good carp is a dead carp. Is rather see them dead on the bank than alive in the water.

felicia delagato - 7 years ago

Largemouth bass, Brown trout are on the invasive species list, many are fishing for common carp in the usa with lots of cool bite alarms n stuff eating small fish is good but some bow fishing people just dumpster them

PheasantHunter99 - 7 years ago

mike Wilson Well, you have obviously never read about carp and what they do...

Gage Little - 7 years ago

Carp are over populating the waters if we just stoped ur kids couldn't go fishing because u had to complain about the carps and now there's just a bunch of carps

John Smith - 7 years ago

mike Wilson your actually retarded. Carp are shit

OlliWolli - 7 years ago

Ye same as me!

Blake Ervin - 7 years ago

mike Wilson I used to think that way now I got a bowfishing bow and I love it but I don't let their carcasses go to waste I cut them up and I use them for catfishing bait

Damon Bungard - 7 years ago

I appreciate the comment, but you're a little misinformed. Carp are in invasive species -- they aren't native to North America, and their feeding, waste and spawning habits destroy habitat for native fish. There's a reason that state Fish & Game departments are encouraging bow fishing for them -- it's one of the few ways to help control the population since nobody sport fishes for them. That said, they are still living creatures and should be dealt with responsibly. I know places to trade them for Chinese food. There are farmers that will take them and grind them up as fertilizer, or you can dig a trench and bury them in your own garden as fertilizer. I always encourage people to have a plan for disposal of the fish if they aren't going to eat them.

I also enjoy fly fishing for them, catch and release, when I don't have a plan for what to do with them. Here's a video of that here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Az3ydmrYvM

There's a time and place for everything.

OlliWolli - 7 years ago

ye i fish with a rod and let it go

Mike Siegle - 8 years ago

Who the hell eats carp

Roman Brown - 6 years ago

I forgot to mention that before you smoke them you have to soak them in a salt water brine for at least 24 hours.

Brandon Weatherly - 6 years ago

People who use pressure cookers

Roman Brown - 6 years ago

scale em (don't remove skin), gut em, cut off heads and fins, quarter what is left and smoke em. remove meat with fingers when done and cooled. don't eat the really big ones, not healthy. it's good meat dude.

Dustin H - 6 years ago

Asians

Sitivat Komsungnin - 7 years ago

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Cheyanne Pitts - 7 years ago

To bony

Chris Ritchie - 8 years ago

it is obvious that you are talented in your craft! I wish that I was that organized! haha

BloodSweatnBass - 8 years ago

Best set up I've seen yet

BloodSweatnBass - 8 years ago

Would you mind sending a link to where you got the orange finger tip protectors

Damon Bungard - 7 years ago

http://www.basspro.com/AMS-Bowfishing-String-Things-Bowfishing-Finger-Tabs/product/13020105362212/

802 Outdoors - 8 years ago

Cool video man! keep up the good work

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Peter Sedlak - 8 years ago

on a scale of 1 to 10, how hard is it to put your kayak on your roof? I have plans for the jackson Coosa HD and it'd be going on my Jeep.

Damon Bungard - 6 years ago

It's about a 4 if you have a good rack system that sticks out far enough for you to prop the kayak up vertically and then lift/slide it on at the same time. It's always best having a friend to help though.

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