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Title: gar sticking with ian
Post by: D. Devall on July 19, 2009, 12:23:00 AM

well one reason i love bows is that you can fish with them.

over the weekend me and my little sister and ian johnson went down to a little bridge over a sluggish river and shot fish.  :D  over the weekend we got 4 gator gar. they were all small, between one and three foot long, but here is the most awsome part.

there was one that was over 5 foot long, way over 50 pounds that hadnt come close enough for me all day, so me and my sister went back with a spotlight. after about an hour, the big fella rolled about 20 yards away, so i snaped off a shot. SMACK! my arrow stuck in about mid fish. my heart jumped into my throught as i yelled for my sister to put on the leather gloves. (this was after i grabed the string, and got real ugly rope burn when the sucker made a run. we horsed him over to the edge and my sister held the line from the bridge while i jumped in the riger. i splashed over to him, not worried about the 8 foot gator that lives there, and grabed the arrow sticking out of him and wraped my other arm under his head. at that point my arrow pulled out, and with one flop he was gone. so after a nice tantrum i went home to skin small ones. so the big sucker lives to be stuck another day.

Title: Re: gar sticking with ian
Post by: wislnwings on July 19, 2009, 08:41:00 AM

Those big ones are easier to land if you get a second or even a third insurance arrow into before trying to land them.

Title: Re: gar sticking with ian
Post by: Smallwood on July 19, 2009, 09:30:00 AM

that's too bad
  :knothead:  
you'll get him next time.

Title: Re: gar sticking with ian
Post by: D. Devall on July 19, 2009, 10:38:00 AM

yeah, i know we needed more arrows in it, but my sister didnt have a bow, and ian wasnt with us, so i was on my own.

Title: Re: gar sticking with ian
Post by: 2treks on July 19, 2009, 09:28:00 PM

Did Ian get his bow made yet?

Title: Re: gar sticking with ian
Post by: D. Devall on July 19, 2009, 11:45:00 PM

which one? he got the dryad in, but he aint got the redhawk longbow in yet.

Title: Re: gar sticking with ian
Post by: gatorgar on July 20, 2009, 03:00:00 AM

Carry a couple more arrows with you, carbon or Alum. and use those as backups,  If you miss, or they go thru, the will float to surface, more often than not.  But it was fun and that is what counts, right.?

Title: Re: gar sticking with ian
Post by: Ian johnson on July 20, 2009, 04:15:00 AM

two tracks, I am still working on tapering the limbs to profile, its hard when there is too much extra stuff from the form glued to it, I see you have fiberglass blanks now and i think that would have been a much easier route for a first time bowmaker

Title: Re: gar sticking with ian
Post by: D. Devall on July 20, 2009, 10:33:00 AM

ooooooh! that bow! yeah what he said.