Bowfishing Links
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May 3 2003	Well went out today, Started at Lake Kegonsa, and went up the Yahara river. We seen one carp, on the run and no more. We decided to go up to a place on the Yahara north of Madison where a friend was fishing the other day, and mentioned he had seen several carp.
		The upper most arrow is where we ended up. The middle arrow is where we launched, and the lowest arrow is where we started the morning out.
		This is a shot of the Yahara looking North east. It widens out here, and is about 2-3 foot with a thick mud bottom. The visibility into the water was about 6" max.
	The first trip we learned that in water conditions like these it's darn hard to see any fish. I was wearing my yellow shooting glasses with polarized clip on's. This enabled me to just barely make out the silhouette of a fish. I shot maybe 10 times today and did not knock the scales off anything. Next time out, I will have some type of side shields on the stems of my glasses, and a hat with a bill. Without these even when the sun is directly behind you, it reflects off of your face, and onto the inside of the glasses lens.
The captain of the boat, Mitch, This was on lake Mendota, and was the water ever clear, you could see the bottom in 20 foot of water. We saw a whole school of maybe 20-30 2-3 foot long carp swimming toward shore, on the return trip, The water temperature was about 53 degrees on the lake, and it was around 60 degrees on the river
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