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Great video as usual! Always a pleasure to watch. Keep um coming👍
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Good Job. That looks like fun. Thanks for the video.
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Those carp are great bear bait also if you know anyone with a summer tag.
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The water still looks really shallow. I was under the impression the water had come up a lot. Looks like it's time to buy a couple fish arrows and go do work gathering up fresh bait.
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If you want to just try it out, I'll lend you a bow. I don't have two complete reel and arrow setups, though. Might even have a something I could give you or sell you super cheap. You don't need a fancy bow for fishing, and you do a lot for the community.
I make wood and primitive bows for fun, and shoot recurves and longbows when hunting. When you are into that stuff long enough, a lot of older traditional bows kind of find their ways into your hands. I got a ton of bows.
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Went out yesterday for a few hours and stuck about twenty fish. Got away from the truck and so didn't pack any out for bait. The carp were huge though so the shot, splashing and fight were a good time. Gonna go hit mona res today and see if I can shoot more. Anyone know if burraston ponds have carp in em? Water was way up at Lincoln beach but it was super windy until about 130.
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Also, on bow fishing setups, if you have a hunting bow, just get it turned down as low as it'll go. I wish I had just a kids bow to shoot because even turned all the way down, my bow still blows through some of the carp. [:|] I just have the drum reel on my bow where the stabilizer would go and that setup with the roller rest and two fish arrows was pretty cheap.
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Forget about carp in Mona Reservoir. It was completely drained by water users. Guess they needed a few more bales of hay! It was drained after the DNR stocked 31,000 Wiper babies. Two weeks later!
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There is a mud motor to help you get to the carp on KSL for $400.
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Whats a good cheap bow for carp fishing?
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Any old recurve with a stabilizer insert or an old compound that goes down to 45 lbs.
The beauty of a recurve is if the fish is at your boots you can shoot it at half draw and not blow the arrow through.
If you love fishing, love hunting, and love being in the marsh you are gonna LOVE bowfishing.
Save your pennies a little longer and invest in a quality combo.
And, get the Feds to pony up .10/lb. for any carp removed from Utah Lake to help cover your costs while helping save the June suckers.
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Went both Monday and Tuesday this week. They're full on thrashing in the shallows now. Shot up the south end of the lake for a few hours both days and came home with enough catfish bait for the summer. Maybe even talked the wife into setting up her hunting bow for bowfishing for a month or so.
The comment on Mona Res was correct also. Drove to the dam and the water was high, crystal clear and no carp were seen, either at the dam or in the stream below. I didn't check Burraston Ponds.
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