Any of you northerners do any pike spearing?
I used to bowfish when I was in high school and JR high but haven't in a long time. I was fishing on Saturday and had a bunch of shy Northerns approach my lure and just sit there stare at it for 3-5 minutes before slowly swimming off. This got me to thinking that it might be fun to shoot some with my recurve. I thought of taking my wife's Kodiak Magnum because it's shorter but I still don't think I could effectively shoot it in my 2 man popup. I've watched some vids on YouTube of guys spearing and it looks like it could be fun.
I'm thinking of building a spear this week and seeing what I can round up to use for a saw. Some of our local sporting goods places have spears and ice saws, but I'm looking at a $200 investment to get started. Since I work in a machine shop I should be able to come up with something digging through the scrap tubs.
Might not ever do it but it just sounded kinda neat.
Last edited by TheKid; 01/21/15.
