Fantastic!,   far cry from Yorkshire, I just got a little tingle of envy (-:  

Way to go Rob!

Good going Rob    Gotta see a picture of the boat.....I've got a little water not to far from here, bound to be some carp in it.

Nice work- I miss doing that....
For some very inexpensive lights- this was my set up years ago.

2- 8ft 2x4's
2 trouble lights- the cheap ones with the silver dome that hold a regular bulb and clamp
2- 12v light bulbs
4- electrical gator clamps

Cut the plug off the lights, wire on the clamps for power.  Clamp the lights on the 2x4's, hang them out over the side (I used to stick them in my live wells on my ranger)
Connect to 12v power, and they you have it.  
Total cost was about 20 bucks.  We used to hang them out either side, I ran the bow mount trolling motor and shot off one side while a buddy stood on the back deck and shot out the other.  When bank cruising- put both lights on the same side.  Great fun, long nights, and my bass boat was trashed with blood, scales, etc...

Here's my little rig....





The bow I'm shooting is a 62" 60# Morrison ILF with an AMS pro-retreiver & a Third Hand mounted in the stabiliser hole. The Third Hand is just a screw-in plastic knob tat you can use to wind your line around & pull the arrow free from the mud. It saves you burning or cutting your hand on the line.

Well now, after seeing your set-up maybe an 11 hr drive ain't as far as I 1st thought...lol

Good looking boat for what you're doing. Looks like you can get into the shallows with it.

God bless,Mudd

Awesome bud, you got my heart rate up.We will wait impatiently til mid May up here.

Looks like some great fertilizer you shoot.Your giving me spring fever with your pics,another 12" snow yesterday.  

Nice job! The buffalo eat a lot better than the carp.  

Pretty cool!

This rekindles memories of my youth, spending long nights with bow on the water with my brother, quaffing brewskis and slaying the rough fish.  I wish I had a boat again.

My father-in-law was quite fond of Buffalo, and knew how to prepare it so the bones melted away.  I was surprised but found buffalo to be quite palatable fish.  I would not use all of your buffalo fish for fertilizer until you have tried it.

Great lookin boat Buddy, now build you a platform a couple feet high on the front        

Those Buffs are great eating also, we had bunches of em in the clean lakes around us back in MO. The bigger ones are easy to "fillet" around the bones, slab and deepfry. Bout now down there with a big bunch of morels you'll think you done died and went to heaven...  

           

Yep, whole lot of fun there! Like others said, buffalo is good eating.

Smoked, eat with some goat cheese, crackers, and a cold beer!    

Leave the skin on the fillets, after scaling and score the meat, fry in hot oil, just like suckers. Then there's always pickling or canning, too.

Absolutely nothing is better than buffalo ribs! I scale the fish, then cut the sides from the backbone. Lay the meat skin side down and simply cut around the ribs. Keep just the ribs and throw the rest in the garden. Season with salt and pepper, roll in yellow corn meal and deep fry....you cannot eat enough!

A friend came up from Louisiana for a visit. I told him we were having buffalo ribs for supper. He said "buffalo ribs, we use buffalo for fertilizer". Well every time he comes back to visit, he says " hope we are having buffalo ribs again".

well done

Robtat,
   Looks like you had a blast carping.Nice Going.

Well Congrats Rob.  Thats pretty exciting gettin after it for the first time.  Looks to me like you are dialed in already.  Congrats on your boat set-up...looks comfy.