I shot Nessy last night! *now witth a cool history lesson* page 2

Overspined · July 11, 2010, 11:00:00 AM

There is a lake close to my house where we shoot a ton of dogfish and some gar. There are very few carp in the lake, and from all the night shooting I have done, I have seen a total of 5. One got drilled by JD from Whisperstik bows last year but he pulled too hard while it was running out line and he pulled the arrow out. Well last night I was a little more gentle pulling in Nessie and got her to the boat after getting rope burn from her tear to deeper water. We weighed it on a digital scale and she went just over 24#. I would have guessed 30#... Now full of eggs it would be rediculous for a common carp. I know they get larger, but this is my largest to date. Carp shooting is popular around here so they get shot up a lot! Here's a pic from last night and the big gar I got there last year.

COOCH · July 11, 2010, 11:09:00 AM

Well done sir

Big Ed · July 11, 2010, 11:14:00 AM

Nice!!!

rastaman · July 11, 2010, 11:18:00 AM

Nice fish!

Chris Surtees · July 11, 2010, 11:19:00 AM

Stone Knife · July 11, 2010, 11:21:00 AM

Did you yell out there she blows when you saw it

Overspined · July 11, 2010, 11:22:00 AM

No but my eyes got real big and I think I drew back a little more than usual! She was pretty deep.

Guru · July 11, 2010, 11:43:00 AM

Congrats

Shinken · July 11, 2010, 11:47:00 AM

Great shootin' OS!

Those are some *nice* ones!

Shoot straight, Shinken

Bjorn · July 11, 2010, 11:47:00 AM

Way to go!!

2treks · July 11, 2010, 12:01:00 PM

NICE!

S. Fillmore · July 11, 2010, 12:23:00 PM

Hello tradgangers, 1st post. Great pics. Two differant species. Great shooting!!

wv lungbuster · July 11, 2010, 12:25:00 PM

Great shooting.Those are some monsters.

Arwin · July 11, 2010, 12:32:00 PM

Awesome Matt!!!! Kudos on that gar, they are hard to hit.

What was your weapon??

lpcjon2 · July 11, 2010, 01:03:00 PM

thats really cool!

cohutta orange · July 11, 2010, 01:35:00 PM

Monsterquest is over. He found Nessie.

Overspined · July 11, 2010, 01:58:00 PM

I have been using a 45# Browning Wasp recurve. I don't know how old it is, got it in 1992 from a guy who used to be a big local trad guy. AMS retriever and std muzzy pt and arrow. I want to use the a longbow 50# I have, but the arrow comes off the bow crooked. Recurves with more center shot seem to work out better. I may shave some wood off the longbow to make it a bit more center shot and see how it does.

glenbo · July 11, 2010, 02:35:00 PM

That sure is a hog!

Rusty in Fla. · July 11, 2010, 04:04:00 PM

Nice shooting.

Overspined · July 11, 2010, 04:13:00 PM

An uncle of mine is a Native American Historian and wrote me this...a bit of a history lesson, pretty cool:

Cut off his head, case him out and make a quiver out of him. I've seen a quiver made out of an alligator gar done this way in a Paris museum. It was made in the 18th century and was collected from a Native in Canada and is part of the famous Royal Collection at the Musee de Quai Branly. This collection consists of American Indian items sent back to France for the Kings cabinet of curiosities and some items were used to educate his son, the young Dauphin (Louis the IVX, AKA The Sun King). It was labeled incorrectly as something else and I told the curator what is actually was. He was skeptical at first but now it is commonly referred to as a quiver and I believe they have changed the museum records as well. The French... Many have a "Little Napoleon" complex and don't take advice from Americans easily. As I reflect on how that fish quiver was made, they didn't cut off the head. They left it intact and opened the mouth up to serve as the opening for the arrows.