Trad Gang

Just got home from a fabulous weekend with good friends in Door County: Ron and Annee Lang. Besides carp shooting we gorged ourselves on ribs, moose steaks and homemade italian sausages. The ladies toured in the Miata while myself, Ron, my son Bryan and Kevin Bahr were in pursuit of the rare and elusive carp. Our first spot that we checked on turned out to be the honey hole, but only after we cleared the boat launch of an 18ft Ranger boat pulled by a 2 wheel drive mini van. No way he was getting out unassisted. Nothing like a boat landing for entertainment!!!
The shooting was quite easy as we never got into water deeper than a foot and a half. My shortest shot was 1 foot, this shot was common.
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Thats me with Ron in the background.
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Ron with an average size fish and his stringer.
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Bryan doing battle.
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Bryan with the barrels full. The water wasn't deep enough to float the boat out.
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We had to tow the rest.
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Here is Kevin, and yes that is his Paul Schaffer carp shooting bow on the pile.
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Group shot.
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The load ready for the compost pile. That trailer is 12 feet long.
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Thanks again to Ron and Annee, as well as the Pinney"s for their great hospitality.

That would be great hog food!

Where did all of You Guys Get the Waders? They look to be Just what I am gonna Need here soon!

"we killed em" is an understatment!!

Way to go fellas!!!

Dang Greg that is phenominal!!!  Makes the one that Dale and I shot the other day look like bait fish.  Great pics!!  Had to be alot of fun. dino

What a load!  Both of fish and of fun, by the looks of it  :thumbsup:  
Great pictures Greg  :clapper:

Your bringing back great memories now! Looks like a great time was had by all!   :campfire:  

-Leonard-

that looks like it was a BLAST!!!  :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:

What a great day in the shallows!   :cool:    Looks like you guys hit it just right.  Ron and Annee are pretty special folks.  I know where he got his moose steaks, but his tomatoes are gonna taste kinda fishy.     I wonder about Kevin sometimes.

:bigsmyl:

Great shooting guys.  :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:

Congrats  :thumbsup:

I was just wondering what the ethics behind killing such a bunch of fish and throwing them on the compost is? I know in Australia they are destroying the ecosystem of the rivers so should be shot. I dont know nothing about this in the US. could you tell me?

To meke it clear, its not mend as an offense. I just noticed the difference between the loving-caring-usingallparts-attitude towards prey on land and the nocaring-disliking-throwingaway-attitude while bowfishing.

nice pics and good shootin by the way

Nice going   :thumbsup:

saumansch, Yes it does seem a bit waistefull, but as in Australia the carp is unwelcome for all the damage it does. Our state lets us shoot as many as we please as long as we remove them. We do try to descrete about it and do it away from homes and cottages. However the reality is we really have no effect on their population.

greg, thanks for the info. I understand now. It is just always hard imaginable ina country where they put them into the waters and they are very wellcome. In the netherlands they even made catch and release for carp a law. Just imagine muskies or bass as a pest and seems unimaginable, or?

kind Regards

saumensch, In many places here the carp have had a devasting impact on the local waters.  I think it is simply a result of the carp being an import they take over the ecosystem and completely destroy it.  Rooting up vegetation and muddying the water, interfering with the spawning of native fish populations, etc.  

Here in the States there are many examples of animals, fish, plants, and insects that have been imported for one reason or another.  When they get here they don't fit the ecosystem with no natural predators or controls and completely disrupt what we already have.  In most cases, it has been proven time and again that man does a very poor job of trying to manipulate the environment.

In some places here in Wisconsin the carp have taken over lakes and rivers so completely that the DNR will draw down and poison the entire system and kill every fish in it, eventually restocking with native species.  

Very interesting though to look at it from the perspective of someone from a country where carp are valued.  Like you said, it would sure be hard for us to imagine if you had a similar problem with muskie or bass.

I've been out shooting fish and had the DNR and their biologist tell us to kill every one of those trashfish.

Must be nice to not have to worry about gators and snakes.

DANG!

You're going to have some "atomic" veggies with all that fertilizer !!

Nice take

My buddy and i went Bowfishing for Carp in Iowa last weekend.  We didn't have a lot of luck, but managed to kill a couple.  We actually tried smoking one of them and it wasn't half bad considering it was car.  Only thing that pissed me off was that someone the day before had come to one of the spots we checked out and killed about 30 carp and just threw them all over land and in the water and just left them.  It smelled like absolute crap and looked awful.  When i carp fish i just slit their belly and throw them back in the water.   It was a method shown to me by a DNR guy and that way the Carp swim away underwater and usually stay sunk just becoming catfish and turtle food.

Quote We actually tried smoking one of them and it wasn't half bad  

How did you keep it lit   :bigsmyl:

Thanks for posting the pics, Greg.  Email me some please.  Thanks!  Great weekend with great friends!

Saumensch
They (the DNR Department of Natural Resources) do not recommend eating these fish out of these waters. A good friend of ours who has a PHD in Marine Biology and was there when we took these fish said they are probably better than the fish in the lower end of Green Bay but there would still be some serious questions about eating them.  Carp you know are mostly bottom feeders where most of the serious pollution is located. We understand your concern and take it seriously. I even asked about the contamination getting in the composte and the biologist said that would not be as great a problem. Again thanks for your concern.
Ron

Way to go Greg!

What did you do to Kevin? You must've shot his goatee off! I've never seen a clean shaven Kevin. He looks just like one of the carp!

Looks like a good time was had by all.Way to go.

Hey , watch it there Terry. Don't be talking about those carp like that. Those are some of the best looking carp I have every seen if I must say so myself.

Greg- looks like it must have been a blast!  Congratulations on a great weekend with a very nice reward

You're right Greg! Those carp never did anything to be insulted like that. Looks like you all had a fantastic time. Tell everyone I said hello.

:campfire:

I got in on the "Kevin Bahr Memorial Day Carp Weekend Extravaganza" back in about 1998-1999-2000, somewhere in there.  Was a great time back in the good old days when Kev would take me and Benny Pinney too!  Ah, yes, the good ole' days....

But Steve, we don't have brown bears here...
So, when are you and Benny gonna come back "outside" and shoot some fish?

Terry, I think the other fellas were using me for a carp decoy.   How was the fishing?

That looks like alot of fun! I'm definetely gonna try that once in my life.

Kev:

Soon Kev!  A couple days before the "big event" in Colorado Donnie and I and step-daughter are goina slay some more of them ugly Wyoming mirror carp.

Good stuff Greg!

I can smell that trailer from here    :goldtooth:

Good job guys

Our local waters are over populated with them.I've never bowfished before and it's another reason to take my bow out.

Ron, I think Kevin is on to us. It only worked for a while till they got a good look at our decoy and it scarred them out to the island.8^)