I had a blast, great to get together again. Getting late so not gonna give ya much tonight, but I was very Happy!! :bigsmyl: Hopefully Curt will post in the morning but ya may have to wait until the evening!! I will say I shot OK!! Shawn
Cool Shawn, but you know hoe it works here. It never happened until we are the pics. Hope to see you at the Muzzy soon.
Pics/stories/pics.....looking forward to them...... :thumbsup:
David
That's awesome Shawn! You going to Denton Hill?
Great News Shawn. Cnat wait for the pictures.
something that I have not been able to experience yet. but looking forward to it.
I hope Curt gets them up, he has some from the day before as well. I will say I had only a few opportunities but made good on them!! David, I miss ya bud!! Shawn
Glad you were able to get a couple Shawn.I did not see a fish the time I was there.Quite the contrast from the few prior weeks.A few dry days and things should be as they were.Nice to see you Shawn.
Pictures :campfire:
Sorry guys...between work and other things last evening, I didn't have time....tonight I'll pix and the video from Shawn's first fish posted.
Pretty cool stuff!
:thumbsup: :campfire:
Same here Shawn......small package on the way to you.......
David
This ended up up truly being one of those "you should have been here yesterday" type evenings...
Not to try to take anything away from Shawn's thread, but to show how much he accomplished on the kind of evening it was, I'll start with the day before...
The evening before Timmy and I hit the river.
I got the itch after eating dinner with mom and dad, quick text to Time and we were on the river at 6:30.
It was raining lightly when we started, but it was supposed to let up and become clear.
As soon as we got out, and checked the river we could see a lot of active fish. Tim went down river, I went up...
I was quickly into a fish close to shore, short stalk and I had an arrow in it...almost as soon as I shot the sky's opened up and while fighting this big fish this guy came swimming by....
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Very wide fish...
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As soon the rain started to let up...must have been an omen...
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My first 4 shots ended with 4 fish. Ended up with 6, 2 that got off and a couple of misses. Easily the best I've ever seen it, especially in the evening...
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Tim also did well...he also had a couple that came off...
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End of a great evening...
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So that brings us to the next day. Shawn and I have been wanting to get together so I sent a text to see if he was interested in driving down to go bowfishing(figuring it was going to be awesome again).
He was all for it!
So I gathered up some of our other friends, Gary and Glen would meet us at the river!
After getting Shawn's rig fixed up and a quick burger at the diner. We met Gary and Glen to BS for a bit.
It was easy to see that things were "different" already.
The water had risen, and after watching the river for a while...we didn't see a single active fish!
But we hit the river anyway hoping the fish would start to get active.
We worked our way up through the same course I'd taken up river the day before and after seeing more fish than ever the day before.....we didn't see a single fish all the way up to where I usually stop!
I told Shawn that I had a spot that if I had to pick one spot that I know of to hang out and try to get a shot it was right out in the middle behind an old bridge abuttment...so out we went...
With the water higher, and running a bit harder it was harder that usual to see...but in no time we caught some quick glimpses of a couple fish.
Then, as I watched, Shawn pulled up and quickly shot...he said..."uuugh"...like he missed, but I could quickly tell that he hadn't...the arrow was dancin'! I excitedly yelled..."you got it"!
Shawn got so ecited he started yanking on the line so hard he was sure to pull it right thru the fish! Then I turned the video on...
He made a great shot...click the link...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yd3qQ1YmEQ
A nice one on his first shot of the evening...
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After missing an easier shot, he made good on his third shot and easly landed this one shot thru the head!
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To give you an idea how "bad" it was....Gary or Glen never saw a fish!
On as tuff an evening as I've ever seen...Shawn did very well going 2 for 3!
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Man,I have been waiting days for this!Great shooting Shawn.Excellent camera work Guru.It is nice to see men at nearly half century age having fun like teenagers.glen
you both are the man!!!!!!!fun fun fun...congrats...mark
Yup, it was a blast. I have shot a few small fish over the last few years but nothing like these. The evening was very special and I would of had a blast had I not even seen a fish. Just to see Curt, Glenbo and the master carper Gary was worth the trip, let alone shooting a couple of fish. Curt kept saying I was a day late and a dollar short but it was worth a million bucks to me just to go!! Thanks for the pics. bud!! We may be close to a half century old, but we can keep up with the best of them!! Thanks guys! Shawn
Must have been that
"River's Edge" ;)
Good shooting Shawn. :thumbsup:
Ah, nothin' like bowfishin' with friends and family!
Great pics!
If you watch the video you can see I am not moving too much, about 18"s either way and we were in deep water. We were standing on a rock shelf out in the middle of the river. Had a blast and ready for more!! Charlie, that RER has killed a lot of stuff over the years. Shawn
you done well, pilgram!!! You ve done well..
Nice shooting Shawn. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Now that looks fun. Im gald you guys all got together and had fun. :)
Hopefully going again today or tomorrow!! Jamie and Marco, thanks guys!! Shawn
Nice guy's!
Wish we had that around here, nice shooting Shawn!
David
I am glad so much fun guys.I need to start some bowfishing myself.