Caliber? velocity? bullet choice?

[huntersdad]

Hey Guys
Someone has to be first, so here is my Question, What do you use to shot fish?

[Marc]

Somebody had to be a smart ass :D It's intended for the off season as I've noticed a lot of you hunters have also included pictures of fish in your albums. So use it or lose it. If I see there isn't any activity in this forum I'll turf it.

Marc.

[Mulie_Hunter]

I think its a good Idea! I use a wooden club to answer your Question huntersdad!

[bone-collector]

browning auto 3" 28" vent rib barrel , and I am not making a joke, in parts of norway and sweeden they hunt pike in the slews when they spawn with shotguns, I had a magazine article on it a few years ago from a norweigian hunter I took out after spring bear , 1 can only sit back and weep that there are bigger rednecks overseas than here in northern BC :lol:

[3kills]

i remember readin an atricle some where about shootin fish being big in the states some where...but they were using every kinda rifle u can think of...

[MB_Boy]

Back in MB I was walking around a lake with my 4-10 looking for grouse and saw a great big pike in the shallow water. Well to enjoy the shock factor from my Dad and having not seen a bird all day I decided.....what the heck.....I have a fishing license. The look on my Dad's face was priceless when I met him back at the truck.

[Steeleco]

I used to have a neighbour that went carp fishing in the Fraser valley with a bow. I gather it's an eastern thing??? Who in the hell would eat those big slimy gold fish??

[Marc]

I'm the type of guy who'll try anything once. We have Sobey's back east and they had some carp on for 99 cents per pound so I decided to give it a try. Well I'll tell, you I didn't even get the chance to swallow a piece and I started to gag. It's got to be the worst tasting fish on the planet. I'll never try it again.

Marc.

[3kills]

ya i have heard of guys using bows around here for fishing too...

[Otsoa]

Personally I prefer the old dynamite trick ;) Stuns them nicely and no picking pellets outta the fish. Don't like using frag grenades like the Yanks did in a vid I have from Afghanistan....too annoying to pick out the fragments

[Amphibious]

ahem....

http://gallery.deeperblue.net/data/500/597FishEdited1.JPG


get in the water and hunt them. remember only lazy ass unethical losers hunt on scuba. put yourself back in the food chain, freedive spearfish. :D

[bone-collector]

umm yea lol there suckers what they going to gum you to death in the food chain :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Amphibious]

ok, big enough for you? I took this one with a POLE SPEAR and a SNORKLE , no gun, no fins, just me and a sharp stick. oh, it's 6'1" ... bitch :D

and if you've ever seen a bite from one of these it would make you shit your pants.

http://gallery.deeperblue.net/data/500/597guitarfish2.jpg

oh, the suckers won;t kill you, but I bet the rapids I shot them in would :P

[3kills]

u shoot that bad boy at a golf course..lol

[bone-collector]

well i have seen a grizz bite/attack victim up close and personal, and I am not afraid of no smelly shark , probably because i am not dumb nuff to swim with them :wink: :lol: :lol:

[Amphibious]

Golf carts are great on the beach - was my diving/fishing mobile. had to tie that bugger to the roof :D

[lip_ripper00]

what the hell is it?

[Mulie_Hunter]

I'm going to have to second lip rippers motion?

[huntersdad]

Hey
It looks like a cross between a lingcod and a huge broadhead. :wink:

[Amphibious]

Guitar Fish
AKA: Shovel Nose Shark.

tastes like pure ass, will never shoot one again. picture taken in Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia.

[Marc]

How do you know what ass tast like? :eek:

[lip_ripper00]

damn I thought Yahama or possably e-z go

[3kills]

marc that might be a questoin u dont want an answer to lol...

[Amphibious]

now Marc, you're the one stuck on a small sub with all the boys, maybe you can answer your own question? :D

[todbartell]

oh burn!

http://www.ls1camaro.net/freehosting/best_thread_ever!.jpg

[Mulie_Hunter]

ahem....

http://gallery.deeperblue.net/data/500/597FishEdited1.JPG


get in the water and hunt them. remember only lazy ass unethical losers hunt on scuba. put yourself back in the food chain, freedive spearfish. :D



Hey Amphibious, There's this great invention that most other people use for fishing called a "fishing rod". No risk of getting gummed to death by Squaw fish! getting wet not required. :mrgreen: :lol:

[Amphibious]

a fishing rod is for lazy folks :D

[Kirby]

I prefer a 2117, with a barbed head, works great on Carp, and suckers.

Kirby

[Fred]

300Wby works well. No need for a direct hit either. Yeah, I know, but I just had to try it to see if the myths were true!

[BCKID]

Well I did shoot a shark once, I caught the shark while seining in the central BC coast. The shark was over 20 ft long. We got a strap around it's tail and winched it up out of the water. I didn't try but I don't think I could put my arms around by it's biggest part. We had to shoot it to get it out of the seine. All I had aboard was a 22 semi-automatic. I don't rember how many shots it took but he finally went still so we could work on him to get him out of the net. If you wonder why we didn't just let him go, I had another shark on board that was only about 8 ft long and loose on deck. He was snapping his jaws and sliding all over the deck. Not something you would want to even try to help. BCKID

[Amphibious]

turn them on their back and hold them there - only takes a few minutes and they calm right down. :D

[Kirby]

Amph, how much does a decent spear gun cost? Would love to get out and give that a try.

Kirby

[Amphibious]

that's like asking what a decent rifle costs. for BC waters alot $200 - $300 for a good one mid range one. you can pay much less for CRAP, and much more for high end... my next one will prolly be a Riffe Mid Handle.... $500us :eek:

if you do decide to get one lemmie know, as I can get FANTASTIC deals :cool:

spearfishing is a pretty cost effective sport all you need:

Mask
Snorkle
Wetsuit
Gloves
Fins
Gun
and a good knife.

if you take care of it the stuff lasts forever. if you have populations of carp in your area they can make for a fun hunt and helps control the population (invasive species). in BC inlad water you are only alowed to spearfish for Burbot, Carp, Squawfish and suckers.

[Kirby]

Ya, I do alot of bow fishing in the spring, same limitation on speicies. Just curious, do you know if your allowed to bait them? I've always stalked them, when they are spawning in shallow water. Always wanted to try taking them with a spear gun. You guys have much good squba diving up there?

Kirby

[Amphibious]

not sure if baiting is legail - need to find out. Carp are a major pest and spearfishing is a very effective way of removing them. haven't done much Scuba up here, mostly freediving. all of my spearfishing is done freediving too.

[troutseeker]

I use a .22Lr subsonic rounds... It is an easy sport! The most effort is to first use a fly rod to go catch the fish, then put them in a barrel... After that, piece of cake!:biggrin:

Troutseeker

P.S. I hereby declare myself a freehunter...

[Amphibious]

a freedivehunter? so you go for shellfish too? :D

we should go look for carp next time I'm in kelowna - have a couple extra guns :D