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Other Activities => BowFishing => Topic started by: duckmen1 on May 28, 2016, 02:05:47 PM

Title: Washington Carp Records. What's Yours?
Post by: duckmen1 on May 28, 2016, 02:05:47 PM: Got to do a little bow fishing. Got my biggest yet. 16 lbs 10 oz. I know they get bigger. What a blast though. 22 carp in about 3 hours of fishing. Could have got more without all the misses. :chuckle:.
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Post by: WA1232 on May 28, 2016, 03:44:40 PM: What does a guy do with 22 dead carp?
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Post by: scout88 on May 28, 2016, 04:01:24 PM: Didn't have a scale but it was a big SOB.
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Post by: scout88 on May 28, 2016, 04:03:29 PM: Just noticed this was in the bow fishing section and this was caught on rod and reel. Sorry.
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Post by: duckmen1 on May 28, 2016, 05:24:18 PM: Crab/crawfish bait. Coyote bait. That's what I do. What do others do.
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Post by: Boss .300 winmag on May 28, 2016, 05:32:56 PM: Quote from: duckmen1 on May 28, 2016, 02:05:47 PM
Got to do a little bow fishing. Got my biggest yet. 16 lbs 10 oz. I know they get bigger. What a blast though. 22 carp in about 3 hours of fishing. Could have got more without all the misses. :chuckle:.

Yep a lot bigger. :tup:

http://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/washington/Species/893/
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Post by: buckcanyonlodge on May 28, 2016, 06:24:41 PM: Caught bottom bouncing for walleye in Lake Roosevelt. Not my biggest but the only one I have a pic of .. probably 15 or so pounds... Boy do they fight!! They do not allow bow fishing for carp in Lake Roosevelt...WHY WDFW???
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Post by: coyoteshooter on May 31, 2016, 11:22:20 AM: my is 29.7 i have see a 32 and 35 pounder this year
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Post by: Stickers on June 01, 2016, 01:28:41 PM: Here's the 32 :)

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1307.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fs591%2Fscotte17%2FMobile%2520Uploads%2Fimage_zpslnsputai.jpeg&hash=62559e120b82ea3447c3f6629185ff6b96fcc187)
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Post by: Timberstalker on June 01, 2016, 01:31:09 PM: What a freaking pig Scott! :tup:
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Post by: Stickers on June 01, 2016, 02:05:31 PM: Thank you.
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Post by: Rainier10 on June 01, 2016, 02:55:51 PM: During the spawn 13 years ago, I got three with one shot. What a gaggle that was trying to pull them in.
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Post by: cbond3318 on June 01, 2016, 03:13:23 PM: I think this is my biggest to date. 21-22lbs if I remember correct..
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Post by: cbond3318 on June 01, 2016, 03:15:57 PM: Scott that's a bruiser there!
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Post by: coyoteshooter on June 02, 2016, 05:04:21 PM: my brothers 35 pouder
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Post by: rieses on June 06, 2016, 09:35:08 PM: wow those are some pigs!!!

biggest ive got is 16-18#

thats based on the couple ive actually weighed that were 14 or 15#

not sure they get as big on the wet side over here??
my son shot a legit 14# on sat and we shot a bunch in the 12# range which is above average for clark county area..... for us anyway.
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Post by: KFhunter on June 06, 2016, 10:00:13 PM: Pretty sure I broke 40lbs, but it's been so long ago and I've got no evidence to support that claim so I'll just say as big or bigger than anything posted here thus far ;)

I do miss bowfishing for them on the Roosevelt >:( really really dislike the park service >:(

Quote from: buckcanyonlodge on May 28, 2016, 06:24:41 PM
Caught bottom bouncing for walleye in Lake Roosevelt. Not my biggest but the only one I have a pic of .. probably 15 or so pounds... Boy do they fight!! They do not allow bow fishing for carp in Lake Roosevelt...WHY WDFW???

It's a park service federal thing not WDFW, they got tired of seeing all the rotting carp on the banks and closed it down.

This will melt your brain
https://www.nps.gov/commercialservices/docs/Prospectus/LARO004-17/Appendix%20Files/LARO004-17_AppJ_Supt_Compendium.pdf
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Post by: coyoteshooter on July 06, 2016, 05:09:36 PM: big fish i shot last weekend 35 pounds
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Post by: HUNTINCOUPLE on July 09, 2016, 09:20:12 AM: That's a Scarry big carp! :yike: Think I'd find some bigger arrows! :chuckle:
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Post by: Okanagan on July 09, 2016, 09:50:01 AM: Quote from: WA1232 on May 28, 2016, 03:44:40 PM
What does a guy do with 22 dead carp?

They make great fertilizer buried in a garden or flower bed.

Tangent: In Budapest at a celebration dinner with friends, all of the Brits, French etc. were delighted to find carp on the menu. They all ordered carp and I ordered steak. One Brit pestered me as to why I did not order carp, and after brushing him off a couple of times I replied, " Where I live we have fresh salmon, fresh halibut, and we bury carp in the garden for fertilizer."

Some huge carp pictured here. WTG!